How Empress Taytu Betul saved Ethiopia from becoming Italian colony, then led a force of 5,000 infantry and 600 cavalry against European army
Taytu had watched the Italians operate for years. She’d seen them colonise Eritrea to the north. She’d watched them swallow most of Somalia. She knew exactly what Italy wanted: Ethiopia. And she knew that European powers didn’t sign “friendship treaties” with African nations they viewed as equals.
Fears death toll from landslide in southern Ethiopia will rise to 100 as 52 bodies recovered
In a social media update on Thursday, the Gamo Zone Government Communication Affairs Department confirmed that the bodies of 52 victims have been recovered so far. Local officials indicated that the death toll could exceed 100,
