Earlier this year, when news of a 15-year-old Ethiopian girl's impending forced marriage went viral on social media, police swung into action: Her parents were arrested, and so was her husband-to-be, ...

Ethiopian artist and actor Debebe Eshetu has passed away. Eshetu died on August 17 after “a long battle with illness,” according to Ethiopian news outlet ENA. He was 83. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy ...

Child marriage robs girls of their childhood and threatens their well-being. After 13-year-old Zemzem was abducted in southern Ethiopia, quick-thinking members of a UNICEF-supported youth group ...

A scene from the popular Ethiopian soap opera Yegna, which sends messages about health and well-being to its teen viewers. Topics range from child marriage to menstrual pads. Tsega is a teenager who ...

Many artists train themselves through mimicry and adaptation. For Ethiopian Behulum Mengistu, 24, that wasn’t feasible; when he was a teenager and budding graffiti artist, his native Amharic alphabet ...

Over the last five years contemporary Ethiopian artists have been making a name for themselves on the global art market, but it’s been a long time coming. After almost four decades of political ...