If you’re after cheaper and more traditional, then the Itegue Taitu hotel (+251 11 1 560787), the city’s oldest, deep in the boisterous warren that is the Piazza, still offers great deals. The ...

The hearse bearing the late leader’s journey embarked on a slow five hour seven kilometre journey from the airport to the presidential palace, as mourners flocked to the streets. “Three days after the ...

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 ...

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.

It is very rare now in Uganda to see an Italian made vehicle traversing the roads unless it is a new model but not those Fiat cars that were mostly used by thieves and smugglers during Idi Amin's ...

A train hasn’t left Addis Ababa for six years. But this major new train line is expected to open between Addis Ababa and the port of Djibouti in 2016. This will be the first train line that forms a ...

There can't be many early morning urban running routes that result in a hyena or two lumbering past you. But that's what I get after lacing up my trainers and heading out before dawn in the Ethiopian ...

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized 8.26 kg of high quality cocaine from a 79-year-old passenger from Addis Ababa. He was part of a gang which landed in Mumbai airport and was ...