A bus plunged into a ravine in northern Ethiopia today, killing at least 28 people and injuring “many others”, local authorities said. Road accidents are common in Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous nation, where roads are often poorly maintained. The bus, which was travelling from Dessie city in Amhara to the capital Addis Ababa, “plunge...
•Governor Umo Eno on site inspection A devastated landscape bowed down before us, with the ugly scars of ravines and gullies. The gaping gullies told a story of nature’s relentless power. Jagged cliffs loomed overhead, their once-solid ground now washed away by years of unyielding heavy rains and flood. I was in the company of […]...

