This research was funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FRS - FNRS), the Fondation Wiener-Anspach and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The population of Africa is booming, but as long ...

When African heads of state flew into Addis Ababa in late February for the 36th African Union Summit, the streets of Ethiopia’s capital city were unusually clean and orderly. Gone were the beggars at ...

Urban Africa is a love letter to the bustling African metropolises south of the great desert—Dakar, Kigali, Lagos, Addis Ababa, and Johannesburg, to name a few—that are dynamic, diverse, and more ...

Ethiopia has a history of cleaning up the streets of the capital Addis Ababa before major international conferences. This includes the removal, by force, of the city’s beggars and homeless people. But ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Among the whimpering of rescued dogs, a soft whistle cuts through. It’s Feven Melese, a young woman hoping to support thousands of abandoned dogs on the streets of the ...

ADDIS ABABA, June 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Olana Abdulsewud was woken by the police in Addis Ababa early one morning in March, the Ethiopian teenager was relieved. Begging to survive on ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Over half of Ethiopia's 100 million inhabitants are Orthodox Christians and a third practice Islam. Begging, in the form of almsgiving, is supported by the religious ...

It's 7.45 a.m. Louise O'Rourke is rushing through the traffic in downtown Addis Ababa, the sprawling capital city of Ethiopia. She arrives at her office by eight o'clock. She grabs a cup of coffee and ...

It’s a sunny Sunday afternoon in Addis Ababa, and a newlywed couple strolls hand-in-hand down Menelik II Avenue, posing for photographs. Their blue-themed wedding party is behind, admiring and waiting ...

When my dining companions and I walked into Addis Ababa Ethiopian Restaurant for a recent dinner, the entire place was dark, empty and a bit dingy. The waitress looked surprised to see us and seemed ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Among the whimpering of rescued dogs, a soft whistle cuts through. It’s Feven Melese, a young woman hoping to support thousands of abandoned dogs on the streets of the ...