Donate Now
December 16, 2019 | VQR Online
An Outsider’s Perspective
Monika Bulaj documents endangered rituals around the world.
Country
Ethiopia
May 30, 2019 | Satenaw News, Water Journalists Africa, ZeHabesha
Rose: The Flower Impairing Blue Nile River and Communities in Ethiopia
Production of rose flowers and several other types of floras is impairing Blue Nile River and communities in Ethiopia.
March 27, 2019 | New Vision
Land Deals Threaten to Impair River Nile
Land deals along River Nile could easily impair its recharging potential if water abstraction is not regulated.
February 13, 2019 | New Vision
Beyond Fueling Land Grabs: Dams and Reservoirs Worsen Water Shortages
While water dams and reservoirs produce much needed renewable energy, provide water for agriculture, industrial use, and control river flow and flooding, a new study by scientists has found that they can potentially worsen the negative impacts of droughts and water shortages.
November 20, 2018 | Pulitzer Center
Caring for Children in Ethiopia
Abigail Bekele, Pulitzer Center student fellow from Guilford College, traveled to Ethiopia to report on children's homes that provide care for children who do not live with family.
October 29, 2018 | Pulitzer Center
Children's Homes in Ethiopia: Slowly, Slowly, Even an Egg Will Walk | ቀስበቀስ እንቁላል በእግሩ ይሄዳል
What is life like for children in orphanages and children's homes under the new foreign adoption law in Ethiopia? How will the law affect children in the future?
May 14, 2018 | The Guardian | Global Development
In Ethiopia’s Bushlands, Promised Riches of a Railway Boom Turn to Dust
Villagers, lured by new jobs and rich rewards for selling their land, now face poverty and heartbreak as claims of corruption engulf a £2.5bn transport project.
May 09, 2018 | The Guardian | Global Development
Deadly Journeys: How Despair Drives Young Ethiopians to Flee to Yemen
Persecution and hardship in the Oromia region drive tens of thousands of migrants each year to cross the Red Sea from Djibouti, in a bid to reach the Gulf.
October 10, 2017 | BBC
Death of the Nile
The Nile serves as a lifeline to millions of people across East Africa and Egypt but is under threat from population growth, pollution and climate change.
October 02, 2017 | ESAT
INSIGHT: Abebe Gellaw Speaks with Helen Epstein
Helen Epstein discusses her new book, U.S. foreign policy, and Ethiopian politics with ESAT host Abebe Gellaw.
August 14, 2017 | Field Notes
Ethiopia to Djibouti: A Journey Along the New Beijing-Backed Ethiopia-Djibouti Rail
We spent a week following the rail from Addis Ababa, where China is leading an urban renaissance, to Djibouti, where it's building its first overseas military base.
August 05, 2017 | The Los Angeles Times
China Says It Built a Railway in Africa Out of Altruism, But It's More Strategic Than That
The first in a series of reports on a massive program of Chinese investment that is reshaping Africa.
What's Next? How Ethiopia Is Adjusting to Its New Ban on Foreign Adoption
With the new changes to the adoption law in Ethiopia, the country has created a sense of community by caring for children who don't have parents to care for them.
Along the Ethio-Djibouti Railway: A journey through Ethiopia’s “developmental state”
A new railway embodies the high modernist aspirations of the Ethiopian government. But a journey from Addis Ababa to the coast reveals the often painful consequences of a grand infrastructure drive.
China in Africa: Hope and Conflict in a Post-Western World
Across Africa, the era of U.S. and European hegemony is ending. As China fills the gap, the continent is changing in ways we’re only beginning to understand.
Ending Female Genital Mutilation in Ethiopia
Female genital mutilation affects 200 million girls and women worldwide. But in Ethiopia, Bogaletch Gebre's nonprofit has reduced FGM in one region from 97 percent to 3 percent by working within communities.
The Great Land Rush
A race has begun for one of the world's most precious resources—land. Investors are pouring in billions. They promise progress, but land grabs can upend livelihoods and stir bitter conflict.
Ethiopia: Humankind's Origin and Survival
While paleontologists push the dates of our origins back in time, agricultural scientists are trying to ensure that humans last long into the future.
Plowing New Ground: Obama's Plan to Feed the World's Poorest
The Obama administration is spending $3.5 billion and partnering with multinational corporations to increase food production in 19 of the world's poorest countries.
Out of Eden: Paul Salopek's Walk from Ethiopia to Patagonia
As Paul Salopek journeys around the world on foot, he will follow the migration pathways of our ancestors who walked out of Africa 50,000 years ago.
Ethiopia: Educational Justice
Teachers at a middle school in Adama, a town in central Ethiopia, struggle to provide quality education.
Ethiopia: Somali Refugees Flee Fighting and Famine
Famine and war have pushed tens of thousands of Somali refugees to camps along the Ethiopian border. The crisis is likely to grow worse, straining the resources of aid groups.
Casualties of Ethiopia’s Adoption Boom
Over the past several years, Ethiopia has rapidly become one of the top "sending countries" in international adoption.
Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides
Throughout the world, more than 51 million girls below the age of 18 are currently married. This harmful traditional practice spans continents, language, religion and caste.
June 21, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Tom Gardner
Journalist Tom Gardner discusses a two-part series of articles exploring Ethiopia's so-called "development state" and the crisis of expectations driving mass protest and exodus.
June 11, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Tom Gardner
Tom Gardner discusses his reporting as he follows the railway from Addis Ababa to the Djibouti coast examining efforts of the Ethiopian government to use grand infrastructure to develop a poor region.
October 18, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Noah Fowler and Jonathan Kaiman
Journalists Noah Fowler and Jonathan Kaiman discuss their three-part series on China's growing role in Africa.
October 12, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Peter Schwartzstein
Why did the BBC and three photographers think yet another Nile trip was important? Watch this clip of a dishevelled, sleep-deprived journo to find out.
March 01, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Michael Peel
The Financial Times' Michael Peel talks about his reporting in Myanmar as part of a special FT series, 'The Great Land Rush.'
January 03, 2012 | Meet the Journalist
Meet Kathryn Joyce: Adoption Boom and Fraud in Ethiopia
Pulitzer Center grantee Kathryn Joyce traveled to Ethiopia to report on the sudden surge in international adoptions--the country's lucrative new "export industry."
August 31, 2018 | General news
Ethiopian Diaspora Community Embraces New Prime Minister
After a wave of reforms in Ethiopia, the diaspora community welcomes Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to Washington, D.C.
April 12, 2018 | Education news
This Week in Education: Too Young to Wed Documentary and Discussion
This week: discussing a documentary on child marriage, examining religion and culture's interplay with environmentalism in China, and celebrating our award-winning student fellows.
November 28, 2017 | Education news
MacFarland Students Join the Out of Eden Walk in Their Neighborhood
6th grade students at Macfarland Middle School learned about close observation, caption-writing, and visual literacy in a two-day, bilingual "Walk Like a Journalist "workshop.
August 08, 2017 | Newsletter
This Week: China's Strategic Investment in Africa
This week: The overlap of Beijing's economic and geopolitical goals, the rise of chronic diseases in violent regions, and grantee Dan Grossman discusses the art of covering climate change.
May 12, 2017 | Project news, Education news
Teaching 'Slow Journalism in a Fast World'
Don Belt reflects on teaching college students slow, narrative journalism using Paul Salopek's "Out of Eden" project.
March 08, 2016 | General news, Newsletter, Project news
This Week: Who Owns the Land?
A race for the world's most coveted resource.
December 23, 2015 | General news
2015: A Year in Photos
The Pulitzer Center staff share favorite images from 2015.
July 06, 2015 | Project news, Awards
Human Origins Reporting Among This Year's Best American Science and Nature Writing
Science journalist Amy Maxmen's 'Turning Back the Clock on Human Evolution' recognized by its inclusion in 2015 anthology.
October 14, 2014 | General news, Education news
A Long Lens: Amy Maxmen on Science Writing at Student Fellows Weekend
Journalist's advice to students: Remind yourself science is a human endeavor and personal details make good stories.
September 29, 2014 | General news, Project news
This Week: Ethiopia—Humankind's Origin and Survival
In Ethiopia new discoveries of ancient tools are raising questions as to the origins of homo sapiens—and as to our future fate.
November 24, 2013 | Project news
Paul Salopek's Out of Eden Walk Featured on Cover of National Geographic
"Walking is falling forward." Pulitzer Center grantee Paul Salopek is following our first footsteps, on a seven-year walk around the earth. National Geographic makes the walk its cover story.
May 26, 2013 | General news
This Week in Review: “When we rape we feel free.”
Executive Director Jon Sawyer shares the week's reporting— from Congolese soldiers in court to the repercussions of a new law in Chile's waters.
April 11, 2018 | High School, College
Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides [Documentary Screening and Discussion]
Stephanie Sinclair's documentary short is an investigation of child marriage and a call to action. In this lesson, students view the film and discuss root causes of child marriage and solutions,...
September 26, 2016 | All Grades
Jewell: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented from The Pulitzer Center.
September 23, 2016 | All Grades
Exploring Downstream: Water Resources
Through this webquest, students use several different projects on the "Downstream" web portal to examine the impact of water resources on a wide range of communities around the world.
September 15, 2016 | High School
A Right to Water for Everyone?
This is a multi-week unit on water rights and access. Students examine the causes of water shortages across the globe and explore solutions to ensure that all people have access to clean, safe...
September 15, 2016 | High School
International Adoption: Ethics and Effects
This is a multi-week unit on international adoption and ethics. Students will examine how international adoption agencies work and the role of culture, ethics, local policy, and international law.
June 21, 2016 | All Grades
Food Insecurity in Africa: A Farming Crisis
The hungriest people in Africa are its farmers. Africa is one of the largest continents in the world and farming is the biggest way to obtain financial means and food.
June 17, 2016 | All Grades
Funston: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 "Guernica" with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
May 02, 2016 | All Grades, High School
Curriculum Connections for 10th Grade History Teachers in D.C. public schools
The following serves as a resource for DC public school teachers working with the District's tenth grade history standards, providing teachers with a list of Pulitzer Center projects in line with...
March 23, 2016 | Middle School, High School
Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's 'Guernica'
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
March 08, 2016 | All Grades
Debating the Global Land Rush
Students explore the concept of journalistic objectivity and use evidence from articles about land rights in Ethiopia, Indonesia and Myanmar to debate how a country’s natural resources should be used.
February 25, 2016 | Elementary, Middle School, High School
Debating the Global Land Rush
Students explore the concept of journalistic objectivity and use evidence from articles about land rights in Ethiopia, Indonesia and Myanmar to debate how a country’s natural resources should be...
October 12, 2015 | All Grades
Museum of Current Crises
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.