Aug 3 , 2019 . By Ambessaw Assegued (assegued@anfilo.com).
Sometime in the late 1970s and 80s, a certain enterprising Eritrean diaspora in Los A...
Jul 27 , 2019 . By Ambessaw Assegued (assegued@anfilo.com).
Over the last few decades, Ethiopia had launched several tree planting schemes including one led by an august sounding institution, the Ethi...
Jul 20 , 2019 . By Ambessaw Assegued (assegued@anfilo.com).
The attempt by the government to draw the Ethiopian diaspora into investing in Ethiopia puzzles many, par...
Jul 6 , 2019 . By Ambessaw Assegued (assegued@anfilo.com).
Sometime in the early 1990s, a lavish wedding is thrown at a posh Northern California hotel by a Middle Eastern tycoon who spares no expense...
Jun 29 , 2019 . By Ambessaw Assegued (assegued@anfilo.com).
On November 3, 1935, Benito Mussolini has already launched his fascist invasion of Ethiopia, and his troops have occupied the ancient city o...
Jun 22 , 2019 . By Ambessaw Assegued (assegued@anfilo.com).
Ethiopia is exotic, mysterious, elusive, wondrous and shrouded with so many inexplicable marvels that it never tires the senses to witness t...
Jun 15 , 2019 . By Ambessaw Assegued (assegued@anfilo.com).
Two young men in Debre Berhan, apparently brothers and recent converts from farming into quarry mining, a...
Jun 1 , 2019 . By Ambessaw Assegued (assegued@anfilo.com).
The judge sits behind his desk in a cluttered room and spreads open a file that is tethered by a worn and frayed file cover, gingerly beginn...
May 25 , 2019 . By Ambessaw Assegued (assegued@anfilo.com).
A rudimentary website search for the “the most expensive dinner” in Ethiopia hosted by Prime Ministe...
May 18 , 2019 . By Ambessaw Assegued (assegued@anfilo.com).
Near Tele Bar, near National Theatre, in Addis Abeba, a customer in a suite enters condescendingly into a...
May 11 , 2019 . By Ambessaw Assegued (assegued@anfilo.com).
A slew of official public processions, albeit almost all of them for former Ethiopian leaders, passed th...
May 4 , 2019 . By Ambessaw Assegued (assegued@anfilo.com).
Belete, first cousin to Emperor Haile Selassie and matriarch of a powerful family, sat listening to her g...
May 9 , 2026
The Ethiopian state appears to have discovered a fiscal instrument that is politicall...
May 2 , 2026
By the time Ethiopia's National Dialogue Commission (ENDC) reached the end of its fir...
Apr 25 , 2026
In a political community, official speeches show what governments want their citizens...
For much of the past three decades, Ethiopia occupied a familiar place in the Western...