Whether it’s paving, construction or big-time infrastructure projects, Addis Ababa is growing fast. High-end apartments and glass-fronted buildings stand where informal shacks once stood. A new metro ...

When Wang Yijun put Ethiopia’s most expensive real estate project on the market, he experienced a strange phenomenon. People preferred the lowest floors over those with panoramic city views. “Power ...

Paradoxically, this prominence makes transport a policy trap within a 30-month window. The path to rapid, verifiable cuts lies elsewhere—in the city’s institutional and commercial kitchens. A clean ...

Nothing to disclose. The views expressed in the piece are all Ezana's and do not represent their employer's official position. Over the last two decades, Addis Ababa has witnessed rapid socio-economic ...

While Ethiopia’s ancient sites are valued, urban heritage is an afterthought in a city forced to expand ever upwards Only rubble remains of the former home of Dejazmatch Asfaw Kebede, a member of ...

Urban Africa is a love letter to the bustling African metropolises south of the great desert—Dakar, Kigali, Lagos, Addis Ababa, and Johannesburg, to name a few—that are dynamic, diverse, and more ...

ADDIS, La. (WAFB) - Emergency crews are responding to a train derailment reported on Sunday evening, Oct. 19, near the Addis switch yard in West Baton Rouge Parish. According to officials, about eight ...

In a surprising move at the Worcester County Board of Education’s annual public budget input meeting on Dec. 2, Katie Addis, elected member representing District 6, resigned from her position, ...

WEST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LA (WAFB) - A West Baton Rouge grand jury determined Wednesday there was not enough evidence to formally charge a reserve Addis police officer in connection to the accidental ...

Courtney Pine travels to Addis Ababa to discover the vibrant music scene of 1960s Ethiopia. Show more In the 1960s and early '70s, unknown to most of the outside world, Addis Ababa's nightlife was ...