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Samuel Getachew
Samuel Getachew is an Addis Ababa, Ethiopia based journalist with The Reporter newspaper. He has written for CNN, the Huffington Post and the Globe and Mail in Canada
Africa’s busiest airport has a drug problem
A Kenyan citizen was facing execution in Vietnam. Her ordeal began with lax security at Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport
Abiy’s port in a storm
Landlocked Ethiopia wants a port, any port. Somaliland has a coastline and wants someone to recognise the self-governing territory as a fully-fledged country. So a deal was made…
Welcome to Addis Ababa – unless you’re homeless
Thousands of indigent and homeless people have been picked up by authorities on the streets of the country’s capital Addis Ababa and taken to a camp where they are kept in…
Mobile money: Ethiopia struggles to pay the price of progress
Why must motorists wait hours to refuel if there is plenty of petrol? For the answer, follow the money
Addis Ababa sweeps poor people off the street
Ahead of the African Union Summit, authorities in Addis Ababa tried to hide all signs of extreme poverty
Damming the Nile
In a few weeks, when the rainy season arrives, water will finally begin to flow into the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Expect regional tensions to rise along with the water…