Haile Selassie’s grandson has bought an Ethiopian shield at an auction to return the artefact to its homeland. The object, made of silver and animal hide, was stolen by British forces at the Battle of ...

The Battle of Magdala, fought in 1868, was a significant event in Ethiopian and British history. Following the capture of Magdala, the mountain fortress of Emperor Tewodros II, British forces looted ...

Haile Selassie I was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (Enderase) for Empress Zewditu from 1916. He is widely considered a defining figure ...

Abdulhakim Shamsuddin was 14 and in high school in the city of Dire Dawa when he first heard that he could contribute to the building of a dam on the Blue Nile. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, ...

Emperor Haile Selassie rocked the Coptic Christian Church to its 1800-year-old foundations. To Cairo and the Coptic pope, Patriarch Markarius III, the gentle Negus sent a rough message: the next Abuna ...

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The news that three Italian army columns had crossed Ethiopia’s far northern border reached Addis Ababa last week in a crashing thunderstorm. That night little Emperor Haile Selassie talked long with ...