I met Haile Gibrselassie by chance on 6 October 2000. The diminutive Ethiopian athlete was clad in a red, gold and green tracksuit of his country. Around his neck was the gold medal he had won in ...

The Bank of Abyssinia (BoA), which has declared a record high net profit of 61.6 million Br in its nine-year history, is looking to appoint a former state minister within the EPRDF administration ...

It was announced from Paris that Ras Taffari, Prince Regent of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), is to pay a visit to that capital. From there he will go to Lon don, from there to Rome. The alleged reason for ...

THE spring of 1936 will see the fortieth anniversary of Italy’s defeat at Adua by the armies of Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia. A resounding victory over Abyssinia by that date might well be pleasing to ...

Ringed about by British, French and Italian dominated territories, the quadruple Empire of Abyssinia or Ethiopia, comprising the Kingdoms of Tigre, Amhara, Gojam and Shoa, survives as the one ...

London and Rome at the last moment induced Abyssinia to adopt a different course. The Empire of Abyssinia -- or, as it is now officially styled, Ethiopia -- has an area of about 350,000 square miles ...

For the second time in four years, it’s opening its season with a new production from Ethiopia’s Circus Abyssinia, a visiting troupe full of acrobats, aerialists, contortionists and jugglers.

At five am on the 3rd of October 1935 Italian forces crossed into Abyssinia, modern day Ethiopia, signalling the start of the Second Italian-Abyssinian War. The war’s outcome would not only ...