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A man searches for survivors hundreds of people gather at the site of a mudslide in the Kencho Shacha Gozdi district, Gofa Zone, southern Ethiopia.

Death toll from Ethiopian landslides soars, official says

Following heavy rain a landslide buried people, then a second one engulfed others who had gathered to help on Monday morning. 

  • Dawit Endeshaw

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Vegetarian injera meal, with shiro, lentils, egg and a variety of vegetables credit: istock one time use for Traveller only

This dish is a staple of one of the world’s most underrated cuisines

Cast aside all lingering images of 1980s famine and instead concentrate on Ethiopia’s amazing array of dishes, starting with the staple shiro wat.

  • Ben Groundwater
Palestinians line up for free food distribution during the ongoing Israeli air and ground offensive in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, last month.

Experts say Gaza is close to famine. What does that mean?

As Palestinians struggle to find food, humanitarians and UN officials are warning that famine is imminent in the enclave. What is it exactly?

  • Gaya Gupta
President of China Xi Jinping speaks at the China-Africa Leaders’ Roundtable Dialogue on the last day of the BRICS Summit, in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Rival to the G7: Russia, China invite rich Islamic nations to join BRICS

Two OPEC members would add financial heft to the BRICS group of nations amid dissatisfaction the current world order disproportionately favours the West.

  • Latika Bourke
Prince Dejatch Alamayou (1861-1879), the son of King Theodore of Abyssinia with British Captain JC Speedy. Alamayou was an orphan and Captain Speedy became his guardian.

Buckingham Palace refuses to return ‘stolen’ Ethiopian prince’s remains

Prince Dejatch Alemayehu was heir to the throne of Abyssinia, now known as Ethiopia. He was taken to the UK by victorious British forces after his father died and made a ward of Queen Victoria.

  • Adela Suliman
Lead negotiator for Ethiopia’s government, Redwan Hussein, left, shakes hands with lead Tigray negotiator Getachew Reda, as Kenya’s former president, Uhuru Kenyatta looks on, after the peace talks in Pretoria, South Africa.

‘We have agreed to silence the guns’: Ethiopia civil war truce signed

The civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray may have come to an end on its second anniversary.

  • Declan Walsh, Abdi Latif Dahir and Lynsey Chutel
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Injera is typically served communally, one large pancake with wots for a group of people who all eat with their hands.

What is injera? Where to find the best of the Ethiopian dish

The perfect dish, injera acts as tablecloth, as eating utensil, and as the main dish.

  • Ben Groundwater
A protester wears a face mask in the colors of the Tigray regional flag as he attends a protest in Berlin, Germany in January.

As one war rages, a small humanitarian truce opens in another

Ethiopia has faced growing international pressure to ease restrictions on the flow of humanitarian aid into war-ravaged Tigray region cut off by a government assault more than a year ago.

  • Rodney Muhumuza
Residents sift through rubble from a destroyed building at the scene of an airstrike in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, in late October.

Dozens of displaced Tigrayans killed in drone strike

Before the latest attack, at least 146 people had been killed and 213 injured in air strikes in Tigray since October 18.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left speaks with Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Raychelle Omamo, after a press conference, at the Sarova Whitesands Hotel in, Mombasa, Kenya, on Thursday.

With avocado deal clinched, China aims to be peacemaker in Africa

The continent is destabilised by conflicts in Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan. Beijing hopes its new envoy will help end them.

  • Duncan Miriri

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