Bahir Dar University on The Conversation

May 24, 2026

Global media networks simplify Ethiopia’s conflicts: insights from 5 years of data

Marew Abebe Salemot, Debark University; Behaliu Atenafu Dessie, Bahir Dar University; Kibrom Berhane Gessesse, University of British Columbia, and Mulatu Alemayehu Moges, University of Agder

Global media coverage tends to focus on just one of Ethiopia’s conflicts.

October 17, 2024

Endalcachew Bayeh, Bahir Dar University

Egypt’s potentially destabilising presence in the Horn of Africa is a direct consequence of Ethiopia’s port agreement with breakaway Somaliland.

October 16, 2024

Abebayehu Aticho, Jimma University; Abebe Beyene, Jimma University; Andrew Gosler, University of Oxford; Desalegn Chala, University of Oslo; Nils Christian Stenseth, University of Oslo, and Shimelis Aynalem Zelelew, Bahir Dar University

Birds play a wide range of unique cultural roles for the Nuer people, who have three interchangeable names for them.