When Wang Yijun put Ethiopia’s most expensive real estate project on the market, he experienced a strange phenomenon. People preferred the lowest floors over those with panoramic city views. “Power ...

Although there will be shortfalls in the country’s infrastructure programme, the railway will be an impressive achievement Out of the dust and rubble of decimated junctions, soaring slabs of concrete ...

Bulldozers have knocked much of the Piassa area of Addis Ababa, erasing centuries of history that Ethiopians built there, starting with Menelik II in the late 1800s. It is now nearly unrecognisable.

Recent media reports have been profusely asserting that the performance of the organs of the city administration have been either smeared with numerous unhealthy records or were entangled in ...

The Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa is going through one of the fastest rates of urban growth in the world. In Amharic 'Addis Ababa' means 'new flower', and Menelik II founded the city at the end of the ...

Addis Ababa had a plan – to expand, and lead newly prosperous Ethiopia into a brave new century. But after protests led to a violent and harrowing state crackdown, what happens next could reverberate ...