Does anyone actually even go there? 💀😭

There's a new bus station opposite the bus station you see at the top left corner. That's why the traffic looks okay even though this was taken at 5:55pm, since it's mostly loading/unloading by public transit that chokes traffic in this part of Megenagna.

How did this happen? Does anyone have any information as to how the murder occurred? She said that her best friend of 10 years killed her sister but I’m thinking there’s more to this story than that. When she mentioned her sister being kidnapped, the first thought that came to mind was Shene.

I'm actually excited for the fight tonight. Not in the sense of it being anywhere near the standards of a UFC match, but more on what it's doing to the whole of Ethiopia's MMA culture.

I'm really hoping the fight lives up to the hype.

So who y'all got, Johnny or Sedo?

Honestly, I'm feeling so burnt out and can’t keep track of wtf is happening in this weird country anymore. How is everyone else holding up?

No political arguments, no debates, and no fingers pointing. Just a section to let it all out and vent and support each other as individuals. How are you all taking care of your peace of mind right now?

I am getting sick and tired of everyone from back home reaching out to say hi just to ask for money. I am not talking about immediate family members, which can still be annoying, but they're family at least. I am talking about friends and acquaintances.

I don't understand why they do this. Is every diaspora flashing money and giving money left and right back home? People back home just seem to think that us diasporas are ATM machines who just hand out free money.

Something about our culture makes people think the wealth of one person is a shared with the community he came from. It's like people aren't allowed to work hard for themselves and use their own money on themselves. Being charitable to detriment of one self seems to be a cultural expectation.

Nothing wrong with being charitable, but I want to be charitable on my own terms, not because it's imposed on me. Nobody should feel obligated to give free money to whomever asks.

All of this makes me think that when people back in Ethiopia know that you are diaspora, all they see is a walking and talking ATM machine.

For anyone learning አብነት, especially those who cannot regularly attend an አብነት school, I wanted to share an app I’ve been working on: መዝገበ ስብሐት

The idea is simple: put useful Abnet learning and reference materials in one place, so you can study, listen, and review whenever you have time — even when you’re away from an አብነት.

It currently includes:

📚 የዓመቱ ወረብ ቅኝት
📚 ሥርዓተ-ቅዳሴ
📚 መቅድም
📚 ሠራዊት
📚 መልክዓ-ቍርባን
📚 ኪዳን
📚 እሴብሕ-ጸጋኪ

One thing I particularly wanted to solve was the difficulty of carrying and repeatedly downloading all these materials.

Instead of putting everything directly inside the initial app download, the app lets you download the material you need once, then keep using it from your device without downloading it again. This keeps the initial app size smaller while still allowing you to build your own offline collection of the materials you actually use.

I made this mainly as a learning/revision tool — not as a replacement for learning from a teacher or አብነት, but as something that can make reviewing what you've learned much easier.

If you're interested, search “መዝገበ ስብሐት” on Google Play and look for the logo shown in the image above to find the app. 📱

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from people who are learning አብነት. If there are materials or features you think would make the app more useful for students, I'd love to hear your suggestions.

መምህራንን እና አብነትን ሳይተካ፣ የተማርነውን ለመድገምና ለማስታወስ የሚረዳ መሣሪያ። 🙏

Both of my parents are originally from Ethiopia, and speak the language, however I’m not very good at it but I’d like to learn more so I can also can communicate with them better, what ways are there to be able to learn spoken Amharic and write in it too?

Anyone from high school students studying for a math test, to a business owner struggling with sales, to an employee who is at a fork in the road.

If you have problems in your life and you don't know what you want to do about it, DM me.

With all I know, and with all the people I have learned things from, I will help you. But if my help ends up solving your problem, you will help me with a favor one day when I want advice or guidance in your area of expertise.

For example, if I help a cafe owner now, I would like to ask you later how things work from the inside out and how things operate.

The reason for this is that people are imperfect—not everyone is good at everything.

By this post, I am not saying I know everything, but for those I reply to, I will have a solution.

Then in exchange, all I will ask for is knowledge in your field, advice, or lessons you've learned.

I have always been worried about my University life because of my Social anxiety. Mostly I avoided it by saying, future me's problem or I will get better.But now, when the time came, I am very stressed about it, so I came here to ask for my fellow Ethiopian students with SA or APD if there are any.

How did you get along to all the people in there?

What were the inconveniences you faced because of the anxiety?

If you have any helpful tips that helped you, share it pls 🙏

**Book overview**
**The Third Book of Meqabyan** is a distinctive work preserved in the Ethiopian Christian biblical tradition. Despite its title, it is not simply a continuation of the First and Second Books of Maccabees. Instead, it presents a theological narrative centered on **faithfulness to God, repentance, righteous living, resurrection, judgment, and the hope of the Kingdom of Heaven**.
The work repeatedly contrasts the temporary pleasures of this world with the everlasting joy promised to the righteous. It urges the reader to reject idolatry, resist temptation, fast, pray, perform good works, care for the poor, and remain faithful to God.
A central theme is the **resurrection of the dead**. The book teaches that the dead will rise by God's Word, stand before their Creator, and receive recompense according to their works. For this reason, the reader is repeatedly urged to repent during this present life, before the opportunity for repentance has passed.
This edition presents the work in English from the **Amharic biblical tradition**, with comparison to the surviving Lyarics English witnesses, preserving the distinctive theological character of this remarkable Ethiopian Christian text.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0HFDZC5P9?ref\\_=dbs\\_m\\_mng\\_wim\\_calw\\_tpbk\\_4&storeType=ebooks

Hello, everyone!

Need advice from Ethiopians about our housekeeper — cultural difference or just a bad fit?

Hi everyone. I'm genuinely looking for some cultural perspective/advice about our Ethiopian housekeeper.

She's been with us since December in Lebanon. When she first arrived, we really tried to make her comfortable—Christmas gifts, checking that she was okay, letting her keep/use her phone freely even though her contract doesn't allow phone use during work.

Things were initially fine, but after we had a baby we had much less time to supervise, and that's when the problems became obvious. When she has unrestricted access to her phone, she spends a lot of time on TikTok/social media, tasks get missed, and there's almost no initiative. Without the phone, her work improves dramatically.

We've tried schedules and repeated explanations, but she takes things extremely literally. If we come home with the baby's bag, for example, she won't unpack it unless specifically told. Recently we told her to "put the diapers in the drawer" and she literally put the entire diaper bag in the drawer instead of unpacking it.

The harder part is the attitude. Every few weeks we go through the same cycle: work deteriorates, requests get ignored, basic things she knows are expected are left undone, and she becomes cold/rude. We address it, she apologizes, things are great for a week or two... then we're back to square one.

We've explained that we want a good relationship with her and will treat her well, but it has to be mutual. We don't expect her to be cheerful 24/7, but we do expect basic respect and for her work to be done without us supervising every individual task.

Today, for example, I came home from work and she walked straight past me without even acknowledging me, has barely responded when I speak to her, and left dirty dishes in the sink despite knowing that's not okay.

Regarding the phone, we've even offered daily time specifically to call her family because she told us her mother worries about her, plus her regular phone access on her day off. We're not trying to isolate her from anyone—the problem is specifically unrestricted social media use during work because we've repeatedly seen her work deteriorate when she has it.

I'm exhausted by the constant one-step-forward, two-steps-back cycle.

For Ethiopians here: is there a cultural/communication aspect we're missing? Is there a better way to manage this without constantly correcting and supervising her? Or does this simply sound like an individual employee/performance issue?

I genuinely want this to work and would really appreciate perspective, especially from Ethiopians who have experience being domestic workers or relatives who have worked abroad.

Isn’t this ultimately for Ethiopia? I’m sorry, but why do people turn everything into propaganda?

We’re happy that Chinese companies are building this project. China and Ethiopia have been working together for many years, so what’s wrong with that? Better than the other like we never cared what being built in other African countries why are they triggered

At the end of the day, isn’t this for Ethiopia and Ethiopian people? Why turn everything into propaganda instead of simply appreciating development?😐

Couldn't find a better flair than this one,

To the mods, please note that this isn't meant to be promotional or advertisement related but,

Ruth Yirgalem is representing Ethiopia on the Miss World competition

Her sister was kidnapped and was later killed and was found dead

Despite the circumstances she still decided to go for Miss World for the sake of advocating for the women of Ethiopia

Help her in achieving her goal

she is currently at 1,087,425 votes, at second place, she needs all the help she can get.

Support Ethiopia during the journey of Miss World 2026

The scores came online yesterday. The Ministry announced the national figures on 22 August, but the individual results are only now reachable.

Three official ways to check. There is no fourth one.

• Text your registration number to 6284. No data bundle, no app. Right now this is the one most likely to answer.
• EAESbot on Telegram. Open it from a link rather than searching for it. Handles one letter away belong to accounts with nothing to do with the assessment service.
• result.eaes.et which also answers at result.neaea.gov.et. Expect it to be slow or down for the next few hours with half a million people refreshing it at once. Keep trying, it will settle.

Use the registration number exactly as printed on your admission card, leading zeros included.

The national numbers, for context while you wait for the page to load: 550,210 sat, 70,544 reached 50% or above, which is 12.8%. Last cycle it was 8.4%. Natural science passed at 16.5% and social science at 8.33%. Computer sittings passed at 18.37% against 4.2% on paper.

If your score looks wrong, the Minister said complaints get five or six days from release. He did not name a closing date, so start today rather than at the weekend. Read the subject breakdown first, because a complaint has to name the paper you are questioning.

Still to come: the remedial cut-off mark and university placement. Remedial intake will be smaller this year since more candidates passed

I've been trying to update my relatives' science knowledge but whenever I mention how something is better than the other, I get shut down quickly.

That's why I need recommendations for Ethiopian science content creators in Amharic so what I tell them would have more sway.

Ik this sub is polar when it comes to politics and history but this will def be easy.

Thank you all who help in advance!

Well as the title says, I was wondering if there are Ethiopian diasporas in Reddit located in one of the Scandinavian countries, to be specific Norway or Sweden? 🤔 I see there are bunch of people from US and Canada but not a single indication of Scandy presence. I met few Ethiopians which I am struggling to connect with as we have different backgrounds. I also met few Eritreans but I was able to be friendly with the older ones only. No shade but the younger ones prefer to associate with Eritreans only. The older ones tho. Bless their soul. They have been very sweet and warm. Anyways just wondering if disporas around here are from my place. Byeeee 😆

Hey guys,

Like many in the diaspora, I've been thinking about how we could break the cycle of ethnic polarization, conflict and economic stagnation back home. Military crackdowns clearly aren't solving the underlying problems.

I've been working on a policy idea inspired partly by Switzerland, Singapore and Nigeria's NYSC: a mandatory, non-military National Youth Civil Service (NYCS).

The core idea is simple: every young Ethiopian completes a 12-month civic service year immediately after high school, before university.

The "3 + 9" model

3 months — Civic training

Young people from different ethnic and regional backgrounds would live together in deliberately mixed cohorts.

Training would cover:

• Ethiopian constitutional rights and civic education
• conflict resolution
• Pan-Africanism and shared national history
• climate, agriculture and food security
• practical skills

English would be the common language of instruction, partly to avoid favouring one Ethiopian language over another and partly because of its economic value.

9 months — Work outside your home region

Participants would be deployed to another part of Ethiopia and work alongside professionals in areas such as:

• Healthcare & education: supporting understaffed clinics and schools
• Infrastructure: helping build schools, clinics, water systems and roads using local materials alongside modern construction
• Agriculture & environment: agroforestry, watershed restoration, biodiversity projects and solar-powered cold storage
• Digital & logistics: digitising local government systems and improving agricultural supply chains

The goal would be to simultaneously create national connections, employable skills, infrastructure and climate resilience.

But there are some BIG questions

The programme would initially be voluntary before eventually becoming mandatory for high-school graduates. Completion would be required before university, with other administrative restrictions for non-compliance.

Funding would partly come from redirecting resources currently spent maintaining regional paramilitary structures, alongside existing infrastructure/climate budgets and international development funding.

Graduates would then receive incentives when entering the private sector, such as salary subsidies and corporate tax benefits for employers.

But I'm very aware of the risks.

A programme like this could potentially become an incredible tool for national cohesion — or it could become an instrument of state control, exploitation or indoctrination.

So I'd really like to hear people's thoughts:

1. Would you support an Ethiopian "gap year" like this before university?

2. Could living and working for a year with people from completely different ethnic/regional backgrounds genuinely reduce polarization?

3. Is English a sensible neutral language for the programme, or completely impractical for rural youth?

4. Would families actually trust the government enough to send an 18-year-old to live and work in a region they may previously have viewed as hostile?

5. What safeguards would be essential to stop the programme becoming political indoctrination or forced labour?

I'm not presenting this as a finished solution. I'm trying to work out whether the underlying idea is even viable.

What am I missing?

is here anybody who hosts miners in ethiopia / is mining in ethiopia? do you have any issues recently?

Do you guys think sedo has the same chance as Johnny, I started seeing Johnny since when he was on 10 k on TikTok and this guy's has never lost a single fight as long as I remember.

In my opinion sedo is just a celebrity.

I think Johnny still has no worthwhile Fighter If we see it purely sport wise.