Double Olympic champion and world record-holder Haile Gebrselassie ran his final race at the Great Ethiopian Run in Addis Ababa last Sunday. 42-year-old Haile ran the final kilometre barefoot, ...

Ethiopia's athletics maestro, Haile Gebrselassie, can be compared to the late John F Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States of America. He's innovative, astute and blessed with a popular ...

The 43-year-old double Olympic champion - born 175 kilometres from the capital in Asella, within the recently troubled region of Oromia - is keen to allow Ethiopia’s athletes greater flexibility. "One ...

It’s an hour and a half before dawn. I am early. Meskel Square, Addis Ababa’s grand centrepiece, is already busy. The long-haul buses leave from here before the sun rises: 11 hours to Dire Dawa; 12 ...

The two-time Olympic gold medallist Haile Gebrselassie has announced he is enlisting in the Ethiopian military to fight an insurgency that threatens the capital, Addis Ababa. Gebrselassie, who set 27 ...

Hot from Addis Ababa Emperor Haile Selassie’s newly-hired public relations counsel, chubby Josef Israels 2nd,* was in Paris last week with the text of a Deal for Peace drafted three months ago by His ...

Haile & Alem International Plc, the operator of Haile Hotels & Resorts, is opening its ninth property in Debre Berhan, 130km northeast of of Addis Abeba, in Amhara Regional State. Owned by the ...