Ziway (Ethiopia) (AFP) – Aboard canoes, motorboats and kayaks fashioned from papyrus stems, the faithful converged on a lake in central Ethiopia to celebrate the Orthodox holiday of Epiphany, known ...

Machines stand on the construction site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Guba, northwestern Ethiopia. (Gioia Forster / AP) Around Ethiopia’s Lake Abijatta the ground crunches beneath you, and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Redwan Mohammed leads a project to restore Ethiopia’s Ziway-Shalla river basin, which is under pressure due to deforestation and erosion.

Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) – The celebrations of the Orthodox Epiphany, locally known as Timkat, began on Wednesday afternoon, January 19. Following tradition, worshipers set out on Lake Ziway in ...

An Irish NGO is playing its part in an ambitious plan to plant four billion trees in Ethiopia in one year. Self Help Africa, an agricultural development organisation, will complete the planting of 300 ...

Lake Ziway, 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of Addis Ababa, is at the heart of annual celebrations in this region to mark the baptism of Christ, one of the holiest days on the Ethiopian Orthodox ...