Addis Ababa — Almost a quarter of Addis Ababa residents have no access to toilets, says a new report by the Addis Ababa city authorities. “We estimate that some three million people live in Addis Ababa. Out of this nearly 25 percent of the population have no access to toilets and defecate in rivers crossing [...]

Labor Day morning in 2005. The doctors call to confirm that the last egg is lost: our IVF process is finished. Quite unsuccessfully. To say we are devastated is an understatement. It seems everything we felt we were entitled to was taken away. Having a child hadn’t been easy, and our IVF was our last [...]

Fasika (Ge’ez: ፋሲካ, sometimes transliterated Fasica) means Easter in Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, the main and longstanding religion has been the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church since the times of Frumentius, and Hebraic religion had previously enjoyed considerable support, traditionally since the Queen of Sheba. In the Tewahido faith, Christ is considered [...]