The Ethiopian bookbinder connecting a city’s people with its forgotten past
For three decades, Abdallah Ali Sherif has been on a mission to explore Harar's once-repressed cultural identity.
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80s pop icon looks unrecognisable as he's pictured at Wembley stadium - but can you guess who it is?
The musician was a key organiser of the original two-venue benefit, held in July 1985, which intended to raise relief funds for the Ethiopian famine that claimed approximately 300,000 to 1.2 million …
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Ink, angels and hard graft: the artists keeping Ethiopia’s ancient illuminated manuscript craft alive
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In an Addis Ababa workshop, sacred texts are painstakingly crafted on goat skin using methods dating back to early Christianity – plus a bit of inspiration from Google Images
In a workshop in Addis Ab…
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‘They didn’t call us for Live Aid’: the stars behind Black Britain’s forgotten charity record
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In 1985, a star-studded lineup of Black UK musicians, including Aswad, Dennis Brown and Janet Kay, recorded a charity single to raise funds for famine-stricken Ethiopia. Why are their efforts so litt…
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‘Many Rastas were chased away, but we’re determined to remain’: Ethiopia’s religious community under threat
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Rastafarians who sought a spiritual homeland in Shashamene face eviction and arrest for flying flag of Haile Selassie’s empire
In 1999, Ras Paul, a west London DJ born to Jamaican parents, sold part o…
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Power struggle leads to coup in Tigray as war looms between Ethiopia and Eritrea
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Tigray’s interim leader flees as rival faction seizes control, while Ethiopian tanks and troops move to border of Eritrea
Aregawi was building a tour-guiding business when war struck Ethiopia’s Tigra…
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Ethiopia rules out conflict with Eritrea over Red Sea access
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Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed vows peaceful approach via dialogue amid recent fears about possible war between the neighbours.
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‘We just want peace’: A pacifist community amid Ethiopia’s Amhara conflict
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For two years, Awra Amba has been caught up in a war raging between Fano fighters and Ethiopian government soldiers.
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Saudi border forces accused of killing ‘hundreds of Ethiopian migrants’
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Witnesses making the crossing from Yemen report coming under machine-gun fire and seeing rotting bodies
Saudi Arabia’s forces are accused of using indiscriminate force against migrants on their border…
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Beatings, torture and electric shocks: freed scam compound workers allege horrific abuse
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Lured by the promise of well-paying jobs in Southeast Asia, thousands instead allegedly end up enslaved in jail-like compounds and forced to carry out online scams
“The Chinese would shock me with ele…