Two Ethiopian soldiers have given dramatic accounts of a co-ordinated night-time raid on their camps at the start of the Tigray crisis last month by fighters linked to the now-overthrown regional administration. The Tigray People's…

A BBC reporter writes about a relative forced to flee Ethiopia's Tigray region following the outbreak of conflict between federal and regional troops. A businessman and farm-owner, my uncle has become a refugee in Sudan, along with tens…

With her 11-year-old brother suffering from cerebral palsy and epilepsy, Hana Zeratsyon is extremely worried about whether her brother will get his medication following the outbreak of a new conflict in Ethiopia's already war-scarred…

Ethiopian-American writer Maaza Mengiste has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her book, The Shadow King. She is the second African writer to be shortlisted in the prestigious literary award. The Shadow King is about an orphan…

Faris Cuchi Gezahegn is an LGBT rights activist who lives in Austria after fleeing his home country of Ethiopia. He was brutally beaten like a punching bag because of the work he does for the LGBT community in his home country and also for…

Even as the world acknowledges and celebrates only seven wonders, there are apparently more wonders that happen every day. The story of how 72-year-old Mamitu Gashe became a world-renowned surgeon without any formal or basic education…

Rome's city council voted earlier this month to name a future metro station in the Italian capital in honour of Giorgio Marincola, an Italian-Somali who was a member of the Italian resistance. He was killed at the age of 21 by…

Everyone has an identity, a story, a way to connect with the people who make her family, but for Sara-Jayne King, she grew to realise she was still alive, only because she had died a few years back. Confusing, huh! Young Sara-Jayne King…