Regions / Africa / Ethiopia

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

Report from Ethiopia by Gabriella Jozwiak.

Anti-abortion campaigners have their sights set on Ethiopia – a progressive outlier in a region marred by restrictions. Who’s behind the emboldened ‘pro-life’ movement and what’s at stake for women’s rights amid a myriad of other challenges? Bethany Rielly, Maxine Betteridge-Moes and Maya Misikir report from Addis Ababa.

Report on food shortages in Ethiopia by Samuel Getachew.

Rivers cross political borders without so much as a ‘by your leave’. Which can cause some sticky situations for the humans who depend on them, as Yali Banton-Heath explains.

Tesfa-Alem Tekle travels to meet the Ethiopian farmers whose unique agroforestry system has kept hunger at bay for millennia.

Maaza Mengiste talks to Subi Shah about the women who fought Mussolini in Ethiopia.

In a groundbreaking new work, Trifonia Melibea Obono has sought out and recorded the unheard stories of lesbian and bisexual women living in the small West African state of Equatorial Guinea.

China is Africa’s largest trading partner and has become deeply involved with the continent’s politics in recent years. This has not been without its controversies. Christine Mungai reflects on the past, present and future of the relationship between these two powerhouses.

Check your passport privilege, writes Nanjala Nyabola.

In 1984, President of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara addressed the United Nations General Assembly. Sankara was perhaps the last ‘Third World’ politician, a revolutionary Marxist who felt a ‘special solidarity uniting the three continents of Asia, Latin America and Africa’.

Carlotta Dotto reports on the trials and tribulations of Asia's largest African migrant population.

How the Global South is affected by the current trade turmoil – and old patterns of power.

Firoze Manji and Pablo Yanguas go head to head on the thorny topic of development assistance.

Misinformation and fake news in Africa is rife, particularly via social media writes Nanjala Nyabola, but it’s not just a Western problem.

Progress without people. Nanjala Nyabola on Kenya's embrace of the Chinese development model.

Richard Swift on Ethiopia's new reforming PM.

Almost any Libyan can tell you the story of a relative or friend imprisoned, tortured, exiled or simply disappeared. Zoe Holman profiles this complex country.

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

What is life really like for millennials? What kind of jobs do they do? What do they make of their precarious futures? We look at the lives of three young people across the world: a Gambian migrant in Italy, a Dalit student in India, and a trans vlogger in the UK.