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Forget the Motorcade: President Obama decides to walk through D.C. instead of riding in his limo Wednesday.

Clinton predicted the festival organized by Marcus Samuelsson will create economic benefits for Harlem for years to come.

Ethiopian athletics legends Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba eased to victory at the Great Manchester Run on Sunday.

The Minnesota State Senate urged the Obama administration to pressure the Ethiopian authorities to respect human rights.

Tadias Magazine By Tadias Staff Published: Thursday, May 15th, 2014 New York (TADIAS) — Using data from the Census Bureau’s…

Dinaw spoke to PBS NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown about his new book & lost and found identities.

Zelalem and Tesfalem being escorted out of an Addis Ababa court house.

Ethiopians won the first six places in the women’s race at Prague International Marathon on Sunday.

First Lady Michelle Obama offered her thoughts, prayers, and support to the parents of the 276 kidnapped Nigerian girls.

President Obama was heckled by Abebe Gellaw while delivering a speech to DNC in San Jose, California on Thursday.

Minnesota’s Oromo community plan to rally Friday and are calling for a hunger strike to mourn students gunned down last week.

Scholars at Risk is gravely concerned about the recent arrest of Professors Zelalem Kibret and Befikadu Hailu.

HRW: United Nations member countries should call on Ethiopia to stop targeting activists and the media under draconian laws.

The new book project entitled ‘Uniting A Continent’ showcases the founding of the Organization of African Unity.

Reports say security forces opened fire on students protesting in Oromia region — killing and wounding some of them.

John Kerry with staff and patients at Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Addis Ababa on May 1st, 2014.

US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Ethiopia on Thursday to allow greater freedoms for civil society and journalists, expressing concern for a group of bloggers arrested last week.

HRW: United States Secretary of State John Kerry, who is scheduled to visit Ethiopia beginning April 29, should urge Ethiopian officials to unconditionally release all journalists.

Six members of the independent Ethiopian blogging collective Zone Nine were arrested on Friday, April 25th in Addis Ababa.

A returnee from Saudi Arabia makes a phone call to contact her family after arriving in Addis Ababa Bole Airport.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Mohamed Keita, Africa advocacy coordinator for Committee to Protect Journalists.

Buzunesh Deba and Mare Dibaba took second and third place at the 2014 Boston Marathon Monday.

Meb Keflezighi has become the first American male to win the Boston Marathon since 1983.

A new book from Tsehai Publishers highlights the diplomatic history of Ethiopia and the legacy of Haile Selassie.

Addis Ababa ranks number three among 34 of cities dubbed most likely to become a global leaders in the next two decades.

Robinson, who was nicknamed the Brown Condor, played a pivotal role in defending Ethiopia during the Italo-Ethiopian War.

Mekonen will lead the firm’s Addis Ababa office continuing more than 50 years of infrastructure work in the region.

According to the International Center for Research on Women, the girls’ lives are improved through evaluated programs.

Ethiopia’s three-time Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele won the Paris marathon on his debut at the distance on Sunday.

Motown will move its base to Los Angeles where it will be headed by Ethiopia Habtemariam.

The critically acclaimed film “Half of a Yellow Sun” is the centerpiece selection of the 2014 NY African Film Festival.

The farmer argues that huge sums handed to Ethiopia are breaching Britain’s own human rights rules.

The Woman’s National Democratic Club is hosting a discussion on April 1st entitled “Strategic Importance of Ethiopia in Africa.

EAC announced that its endorsing Ike Leggett for reelection as Maryland’s Montgomery County Executive.

In his latest documentary filmmaker Dagmawi Yimer reflects on the difficulties of being an immigrant in Italy.

Ethiopian scientist Segenet Kelemu is working to improve the resistance and productivity of forage grasses.

Third International Conference of Ethiopian Women in the Diaspora takes place on Saturday in Silver Spring.

The New York Times book review of Dinaw Mengestu’s deeply moving latest novel “All Our Names.”

Abraham Verghese has been selected for the $250,000 Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities.

Besides the size of its population, what attracts multinational consumer groups to Ethiopia is economic growth.

Genzebe won this year’s World Indoor Championship in the women’s 3000m final held in Poland on March 9th.

Amane Gobena the Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday in 2 hours, 27 minutes, 37 seconds after finishing sixth in Dubai on Jan. 25.

Bekoji is home to some of Ethiopia’s best known Olympians and the world’s greatest distance athletes.

Secretary of State John Kerry mentioned Eskinder Nega on Thursday during a press briefing in Washington.

It’s a captivating…The song, like the album, reflects the singer’s belief that life is worth embracing, bumps and all.

The Ethiopian victim (who is now nine-months pregnant) still faces additional immigration-related charges.

A lawsuit filed on Tuesday accuses Ethiopia of infecting a US man’s computer with “spyware” as part of a campaign to gather intelligence about those critical of the government.

The Ethiopian pilot who hijacked a flight to Rome and took it to Geneva recently lost his uncle, a relative said Tuesday.

The co-pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines jet en route to Rome from Ethiopia seized control of the plane Monday and flew it to Geneva.

Difret has won the prize for best film screening in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival.

The targets of such attacks often are political activists, human rights workers and journalists.

Walyas head coach Sewnet Bishaw has been sacked after a disastrous performance at the African Nations Championship.

How Ethiopia’s Agricultural Transformation Agency, is emerging as a model for bureaucratic collaboration in food security.

In a historic move, the US Congress has taken a stance on land grabs-related human rights abuses in Ethiopia.

Eskinder Nega has been awarded the 2014 Golden Pen of Freedom by the World Association of Newspaper Publishers.

Difret, an Ethiopian film based on a true story, wins Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award.

Ethiopia claimed the top five positions in the men’s section and the top nine spots in the women’s category in the Dubai Marathon on Friday.

President Barack Obama will host a summit with African leaders in a bid to strengthen trade and investment ties with the continent.

AFP photographer Carl de Souza travels to Gondar to document Timket.

Difret premiered on Saturday, January 18th at the Egyptian Theatre in Park City, Utah.

Meron Getnet stars in Difret — the first Ethiopian film to premiere at Sundance Film Festival.

New York Times features Addis Ababa noting “an ambitious art scene heads
 toward the international stage.”

Triple Olympic gold medallist Kenenisa Bekele will make his long-awaited debut over the classic distance on April 6th in Paris.

U.S. embassy in Juba continues to recommend that U.S. citizens leave South Sudan immediately

President Obama announces a new flagship program: the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders.

What a year for the Walyas: Supersport.com gives you a brief round up of the year that was for Ethiopian football.

The service takes place at 9:30 AM on Saturday, December 28th at the Debre Selam Kidist Mariam Church in Washington, DC.

The concert in New York was Hailu Mergia’s first American show since 1991.

You are invited to submit an autobiographical essay for an anthology of African Immigrant Literature.

Comparisons between the two groups are simplistic. The Ethiopian girls are not in it for the money or the fame.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela, 95, died peacefully at his Johannesburg home on Thursday.

A rights group is making a global appeal for the release from prison of the award-winning journalist Eskinder Nega.