About 350m trees have been planted in a single day in Ethiopia, according to a government minister. The planting is part of a national “green legacy” initiative to grow 4bn trees in the country this summer by encouraging every citizen to plant at least 40 seedlings. Public offices have reportedly been shut down in order for civil servants to take part.

Ethiopia's military chief was shot to death by his bodyguard amid a failed coup attempt against a regional government north of the capital, Addis Ababa.

Experienced diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde is chosen by lawmakers for the ceremonial position.

There has been a blast at a rally for Ethiopia's new PM Abiy Ahmed attended by thousands of people in Addis Ababa.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed also announces the liberalisation of parts of the economy.

The highest ideals of Locke, Hume and Kant were first proposed more than a century earlier by an Ethiopian in a cave. By Dag Herbjørnsrud.

A bold experiment by the One Laptop Per Child organization has shown “encouraging” results. With 100 million first-grade-aged children worldwide having no access to schooling, the One Laptop Per Child organization is trying something new in two remote Ethiopian villages—simply dropping off tablet computers with preloaded programs and seeing what happens.

A new study has found the human spinal structure that enables efficient walking motions was established millions of years earlier than previously thought. This 3.3 million-year-old fossil skeleton is the most complete spinal column of any early human relative; it…

Ethiopia will run out of emergency food aid for 7.8 million people hit by severe drought by the end of this month, the government and humanitarian groups said.

45,000 years ago in Ethiopia, humans built a paint workshop and used it for millennia.

Ethiopia's government says several people have died and others have been injured in chaotic scenes at a festival near the capital, while the opposition party says the death toll is at least 50 in a stampede sparked by police action to break up a protest. "As a result of the chaos, lives were lost and several of the injured were taken to hospital," the government communications office said in a statement on Sunday, without giving figures. "Those responsible will face justice."

The tribal Afar people have inhabited this arid moonscape for centuries, eking out a living by transporting salt across the brutal desert by camel caravans.

More than 90 people were shot dead by security forces in protests across Ethiopia's Oromiya and Amhara regions at the weekend, residents and opposition officials said on Monday. Unrest flared in Oromiya for several months until early this year over plans to allocate farmland surrounding the regional capital for development. Authorities scrapped the scheme in January, but protests flared again over the continued detention of opposition demonstrators.

Photographer:Joel Santos - Shown above is an aerial image of Erta Ale in the Afar Region of northeastern Ethiopia. The caldera of this continuously active, basaltic shield volcano cradles a lake filled with molten lava.

The death toll from a raid carried out by attackers from South Sudan in western Ethiopia has risen to 208 people, an Ethiopian official said, adding that 108 children were kidnapped. By Sunday afternoon, the number had risen to "208 dead and 75 people wounded" from a figure of 140 a day earlier, government spokesman Getachew Reda told the Reuters news agency. Women and children were among the dead, he said, adding that the assailants had also taken 2,000 head of livestock.

Ethiopia says armed men have killed 140 people near its border with South Sudan and abducted at least 39 children. Ethiopia's Communications Minister Getachew Reda said the attackers were members of South Sudan's Murle tribe. He said security forces were chasing the attackers and had killed 60 so far. Ethiopia is hosting thousands of South Sudanese refugees who fled the 2013 clashes that began when President Salva...

If you fancy an early morning run accompanied by hyenas, try the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

Nafkot Nega thinks journalists are terrorists. When I visited him and his mother, Serkalem Fassil, at their tiny apartment in the outskirts of Washington, DC, in early January, 9-year-old Nafkot intermittently murmured and jabbed his hands, pretending to be a superhero fighting criminals. Perhaps some of those criminals were journalists like his father, Eskinder Nega, who was convicted of violating Ethiopia’s anti-terror law in July 2012.

An expedition reveals that two national parks in Ethiopia and Sudan could be home to around 200 lions – a rare extension of their wild habitat