About Us

We report on politics, business, technology, culture, sport and daily life in Ethiopia and across Africa, and we follow world news where it touches the region.

The site reads in English, Amharic, Afaan Oromoo, Tigrinya and Somali, and articles can also be translated into Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Hindi. A translated article always says which language it was written in and links to the original.

Our Around the Web page gathers headlines about Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa from dozens of other news organizations: state media, independent outlets, diaspora publications and international agencies, in several languages.

We show only the headline and a short excerpt. Every item opens on the original publisher’s site, and we do not edit or rewrite that external content. The wire is there so you can see how a story is being reported elsewhere, and so our editors can see what needs covering.

Our editors use AI tools in the newsroom, and we think you should know how.

• An editor picks a lead from the wire, or several reports on the same story. An AI writing tool reads what those outlets published and drafts an original article that names the outlet behind each claim. It is instructed never to copy a source and never to state a fact the reports do not support.
• Where a fact is missing, the draft carries a visible placeholder in place of a guess. An article with a placeholder left in it cannot be published.
• An AI editing tool then checks the draft for clarity, tone and unsupported claims, and lists what a person should verify.
• A human editor must fact-check every AI-assisted draft and record that they have done so. Our publishing system refuses to approve, schedule or publish the article until that check is recorded, and any later AI rewrite cancels the check.

AI helps us cover more stories in more languages. It does not decide what we publish. People do, and they answer for it.

We attribute what we report, we separate news from opinion, and we correct mistakes. When an article is corrected after publication, the correction is noted on the article.

If you think we got something wrong, write to editorial@addisgazette.com.

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