Ethiopia

When Ethiopian university student Moti Dereje logged into his Facebook account in late November 2018, he was expecting to see the usual updates from his friends and family. Instead, the 19-year-old - who was studying in the capital,…

Little Haftom is nearly five years old. His name means "wealthy" in the Tigriyna language but he weighs just half what he should. As the doctor pulls up his jumper and tracksuit bottoms to show his spindly arms and legs, his mother…

Ethiopian-American Nasa research engineer Berhanu Bulcha is aiming to find a solution to the problem of locating water on the moon, to help humans set up a permanent base there. Without water there can be no life. Whether humans are…

Selamawit Teklay, Ethiopian beauty queen from the war torn Tigray region narrates her ordeal fleeing her home to seek asylum in the UK. I had a difficult and scary time to reach the UK. I have seen Tigrayan brothers drown in the sea.…

An Ethiopian student who carried firewood during his graduation in honour of his hardworking mother now has a job offer for his good gesture. Images of Ephrem Belete, a graduate of computer science at Addis Ababa University, paying…

The reason I was named Emama Fishka (Mama Whistle) was because there was a cholera outbreak in 2016 and I was screaming at people who wanted to eat without washing their hands. First, I use this whistle then I warn them with this yellow…

An Ethiopian father of 11 has become a social media sensation in the country after he enrolled at a university at the age of 69. Orphaned at a young age, Tadesse Ghichile, couldn't continue his formal education after middle school until…

Nothing beats the love of a mother and the relentlessness of an Eritrean mother to locate her long lost son has finally paid off after they were reunited after 47 years apart. Mussie Kahsay Tesdagergis has been separated from his…

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…