Do you know what the official language of Ethiopia is? If you didn’t already know, it is a language called Amharic. This language is also known as Amhara, Abyssinian, Amarinya and Amarigna, according ...

“Eden! Come talk to your grandma,” my mother yells. My heart instantly floods with anxiety. While I am excited to speak to a family member from Ethiopia, my parents’ home country, I’m afraid that my ...

In spring 2021, King County Metro supervisor Daniel Fisseha asked his colleague, Berhanemeskal Gebreselassie, to print something for him from his computer. He made the request in Amharic; both men are ...

CARLO CONTI-ROSSINI, the greatest living authority on Ethiopian culture and history, has described Ethiopia as a "museum of peoples." For thousands of years diverse peoples have beaten against the ...

Dereje Desta worked the room, passing out fliers promoting his biweekly newspaper's fourth anniversary. He is the founder, owner, editor and sole reporter of Washington's only Ethiopian-oriented news ...

Conflict and fear have taken its toll on freedom of speech in Ethiopia, a country that was once heralded as an African powerhouse with a bright future. Not long ago, Ethiopia's government was ...