The alert U. S. citizen last week could pick from among his fellow citizens as Man of the Year at the close of 1935 whom? When accountants had added up box-office receipts, Miss Shirley Temple ...

Medal Italian colonial soldiers stole from Prince Damtew resurfaces at auction 87 years after the war hero was executed.

The solid gold medal is referred to as the “Imperial Order of the Star of Ethiopia” and is touted for having once belonged to Emperor Haile Selassie’s fabled son-in-law, a noble executed by ...

Addis Ababa plots crusade to reclaim artefacts from the Royal Collection amid hopes that Labour will be more amenable than ...

By the end of the 1970s, Haile Selassie’s policies had left Ethiopia with an extremely underdeveloped economy. It had the lowest GNP per capita in Africa and a life expectancy of just 30 years.

a bell stands ready for the launch this month of the first securities market in Ethiopia since the last days of emperor Haile Selassie. “This isn’t just a milestone, it marks a new Ethiopia ...

Throughout political and modern history, there have always been, at large and to some varying degree, two specific forces that have constantly been at odds with one another. Two elements that stem ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. In the mid-1920s, the powerful warlords of Ethiopia were coming to the realisation that a ...

Ethiopia, home to some 130m people, had been the most populous country without an exchange. The rudiments of an earlier stockmarket did not survive the Emperor Haile Selassie’s overthrow in 1974.

Addis Ababa officials to demand return of royal and religious artefacts following Benin Bronzes deal with Nigeria ...

Prime minister pursues liberal reforms to revive ‘broke’ east African country after two-year civil war and default ...