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Feb 3 , 2024

LUSH LEEWAYS

A neatly tucked green area around the National Theatre receives renovations as part of a city-wide revamp. Addis Abeba has been glistening ever more green over the past four years as waves of new park...

Jan 27 , 2024

CRYSTAL SILHOUETTE

A Timket holiday festivities across the Lideta area. Ethiopia's peak holiday season which lasts until mid-March from late September has drawn to a close with contrasting levels of festivities across t...

Jan 27 , 2024

CYBER KIOSK

A shop around the Sidist Kilo area adorns digital payment instruments in a bid to expand marketability. The potential use of Central Bank digital currencies (CBDC) following studies on their use is be...

Jan 27 , 2024

ANODIC NOTES

Rophnan Nuri announced a double album release at Hyatt Regency Hotel in the next three weeks. The artist is poised to return to the airwaves with an album dubbed IX in keeping with the theme of his II...

Jan 19 , 2024

MOVING WOES

A pickup truck around the Laphto area hauls a pile of household items to a new neighbourhood. Constant arguments and fights had become ubiquitous across Addis Abeba related to loading and unloading it...

Jan 19 , 2024

DREARY DUELS

Two donkeys are fighting it out after a long day hauling items across the streets of Megenagna. There are around one million cart donkeys and 250,000 cart horses who work daily across the country. Eth...

Jan 19 , 2024

IRONCLAD

The latest Sinotruck model TX Cargo Chassis was unveiled indoors at the Hilton Hotel last week by Sinotruck International and Hansom Group. Although commercialisation of the fright operators has been...

Mar 14 , 2021

Coffee Train

Tomoca Coffee has opened another outlet inside the La Gare Train Station and is converting an old train car into a café. Open in 1917, the train station is one of the attractions of the city. It will...

Feb 13 , 2021

NEW MESQEL SQUARE

A construction crew, equipment and materials still obscure the progress of the Mesqel Square project. Nonetheless, the fencing that once enveloped the construction site has largely been removed, and t...

Feb 13 , 2021

SECONDHAND MARKET

A man hauls a sackful of secondhand clothes for sale in Addis Abeba in the area known as Mendida on the outskirts of the city. One of the origins of the supply chain for clothes sold in the informal m...

Jan 23 , 2021

GEBENA PINATA

The piñata game, where a blindfolded person attempts to strike a colourful container with candy inside of it, is not confined to Mexico or the countries it was imported to. In Ethiopia, it is part of...

Jun 20 , 2020

Sanctioned Graffiti

Yonas Berehe and Andualem Moges, artists of Ya Studio, are painting street art for the city in Megenagna, after getting the green light from Yeka District. They are painting portraits of Prime Ministe...

Apr 4 , 2020

PEACOCK GATES

Past the cars waiting in traffic, two huge sculptured peacocks can be glimpsed at the entrance to the Prime Minister's Office in Arat Kilo. Situated close to parliament, the peacocks are part of the o...

Apr 4 , 2020

GOOD SAMARITAN

A Good Samaritan is using his motorbike to contribute to the fight against the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (CoViD-19) in Mesqel Square. Providing free soap and water to passersby who want to wash...

Mar 14 , 2020

PART RECREATION

Part of the sculpture on Mexico Square was used by Bekele Mekonnen, assistant professor and lead artist on the project, to create a replica of the whole. Presented at the compound of Addis Abeba Unive...

Mar 7 , 2020

BUS STOPS

Some streets in Addis Abeba have recently added road surface markings to indicate bus stops and to be used by such large public transportation services only. But not everyone is paying attention to th...


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