ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Mekelle, a city nestled in the arid, mountainous Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, is steeped in the lore of its guerrilla fighters, who marched in sandals to Addis Ababa to ...

Dire Dawa, a fast-growing Ethiopian city on the Addis–Djibouti corridor, shows how connectivity fuels urban jobs. As automation reshapes factory work, employment increasingly emerges from supplier ...

Rapid urbanization and increased waste generation in Addis Ababa is making it even harder for the city to provide safe and sustainable solid waste management. Tokyo Development Learning Center is ...

Biruk Terrefe is a Ph.D. candidate at the Oxford Department of International Development. His research focuses on the politics of infrastructure and urbanization in Ethiopia and the wider Horn of ...