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Red Sea tensions: 4 scholars explain what’s at stake for global trade and security

The Red Sea region is a geopolitical hotspot. It holds strategic maritime importance as a global trade transit route and plays a crucial role in the broader region’s security and economic stability.

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Lonely graves, scattered bones: the stark reality of one of the most overlooked and fastest-growing migration routes

Thousands of desperate migrants die in the desert and at sea, or fall victim to murderers and kidnappers, as they make their way along the ‘eastern corridor’ from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia

The Guardian - UK

Will al-Shabaab get stronger in Ethiopia? Two reasons why it’s unlikely – analyst

There have been numerous reports of arrests of al-Shabaab insurgents, the dismantling of an al-Shabaab terrorist network and interception of arms in Ethiopia in 2024. Reports have also suggested that al-Shabaab is seeking to establish “an active combat presence” in the Bale mountains.

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France returns ancient artefacts to Ethiopia

France on Saturday began the return of some 3,500 archaeological artefacts to Ethiopia, which Paris held since the 1980s for study. This came during a visit to the region by the new Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot.

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Bob Geldof received emotional thank you from Ethiopian waiter for changing his life

Bob Geldof received an emotional thank you from an Ethiopian waiter whose life was changed by Band Aid.

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OPINION - I am sick of people criticising Band Aid — this is why they're completely wrong

“Do they know it’s Christmas?” Fuse ODG (real name Nana Richard Obiana) turned down the offer to take part in the 30th anniversary of the original song in 2014 which was to be refashioned to raise money for the Ebola crisis. He says: “I pointed out to Geldof the lyrics…

Evening Standard

‘Everyone was happy, but it became annoying’: Ethiopians look back on Band Aid

London cafe owner Yared Markos, 48, saw ‘aeroplanes, biscuits, sweets and cake all over Addis Ababa’ after song’s release

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Made in Ethiopia review – knotty study unpicks China’s industrial influence in Africa

Three women – a manager, a worker and a farmer – tell their stories in this nuanced exploration of Ethiopia’s booming Chinese-led manufacturing sector

The Guardian - UK

The whole story of human evolution – from ancient apes via Lucy to us – in one long read

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an exciting find hits the headlines, palaeoanthropology and its related fields have gained far less scientific support and funding – particularly for scientists and institutions based in the African…

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Brics+ countries are determined to trade in their own currencies – but can it work?

Brics+ countries are exploring how they can foster greater use of local currencies in their trade, instead of relying on a handful of major currencies, primarily the US dollar and the euro.

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As Band Aid marks 40th anniversary critics take aim at Africa stereotypes

Latest version of Do They Know It’s Christmas fundraiser reignites debate about ‘problematic’ lyrics and imagery

The Guardian - UK

Wolves in Ethiopia spotted licking 'red hot poker' flowers like lollipops

Wolves in Ethiopia that lick the flowers of the "red hot poker" flowers are the first known large carnivores to eat nectar.

LiveScience

Somaliland’s new government is ready to drive change: these are its 3 big goals

The fierce electoral competition in Somaliland – coupled with clan politics and governance challenges – makes it important to understand the implications of the de facto independent state’s recent presidential election outcome.

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Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy, it’s time to ‘decolonise paleoanthropology’ says leading Ethiopian fossil expert – podcast

On November 24 1974, renowned American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson spotted “a piece of elbow with humanlike anatomy” poking out of a rocky hillside in northern Ethiopia. It was the first fossil of a partial skeleton belonging to “Lucy”, an ancient female hominin who took the story of human evolution back…

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‘Deep inside, something told me I had found the earliest human ancestor; I went numb’ – Yohannes Haile-Selassie on his lifetime quest to discover ancient humanity

Fifty years ago, the discovery of a partial skeleton amid the barren desert landscape of northern Ethiopia transformed our understanding of where humans came from, and how we developed into Homo sapiens.

The Guardian - UK

‘Every night we only hoped to survive’: Sudanese refugees’ search for safety

Refugees who escaped Sudan’s civil war and fled to Ethiopia have found themselves on the run from another conflict

International Business Times

Human Ancestor Lucy Still Has Secrets 50 Years After Discovery

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. "The impact of the discovery was very big in the discipline and even the whole world," he told AFP. Lucy showed that members of the human family existed beyond three million years ago, and she also provided…

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Lucy's last day: What the iconic fossil reveals about our ancient ancestor's last hours

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died.

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Ancient human ancestor Lucy was not alone — she lived alongside at least 4 other proto-human species, emerging research suggests

Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only australopithecine species there.

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Paddy Coulter obituary

Oxfam head of communications who fought to change the way the media portrays aid work in developing countries

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Band Aid at 40: how the problematic Christmas hit changed the charity sector

In November 1984, BBC journalist Michael Buerk presented a series of dispatches from the small town of Korem in northern Ethiopia. He described the scenes he encountered as a famine of “biblical proportions” and that aid workers in the region had told him it was “the closest thing to hell…

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Somaliland goes to the polls amid Ethiopia-Somalia port deal row

Small Somaliland is positioned in the middle of a regional spat that some experts fear could escalate further.

Al Jazeera

Breakaway Somaliland holds vote as quest for recognition gathers pace

Vote in Somaliland comes amid regional tensions and hopes for international recognition after 30 years of self-rule.

International Business Times

Somaliland Votes Amid Horn Of Africa Tensions

Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia at the centre of a diplomatic storm, holds a presidential election on Wednesday at a tense moment in the Horn of Africa.

International Business Times

Somaliland To Vote Amid Horn Of Africa Tensions

Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia at the centre of a diplomatic storm, will hold a presidential election on Wednesday at a tense moment in the Horn of Africa.

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