After two and a half years of rehearsals and practice, 'Yegna' is a hit on the musical and theatrical scenes in Addis Ababa. The formation of such a band with a purpose of librating young girls is a ...

The Ethiopian girl band, Yegna, is more than just five cute teens with a catchy hook. These ambitious young ladies are challenging their whole community to acknowledge women in a new way. It’s been ...

A scene from the popular Ethiopian soap opera Yegna, which sends messages about health and well-being to its teen viewers. Topics range from child marriage to menstrual pads. Tsega is a teenager who ...

All over the world, young women are rising up – Exercising their rights to education; saying ‘no’ to early marriage and unintended pregnancy; and demanding equal employment opportunities. There is ...

It’s a cold and wet afternoon in Addis Ababa and the girls from Yegna (pronounced yen-ya) – Ethiopia’s first and only manufactured pop band – straggle in late for their interview. Shaking off the rain ...

On April 14th 2015, a Radio programme which mainly focuses on adolescent girls entitled 'Yegna' has got the fifth season new radio programme series on air, here in the capital. Marking the occasion ...

Ethiopia-based multimedia brand Yegna was at the centre of a media storm after criticism from UK tabloids, but despite the noise, the band, talk-show, and drama has the ambitious aim of changing the ...

British taxpayer's money will no longer be used to fund an African girl band dubbed the Ethiopian Spice Girls. Five-piece pop group Yegna was reportedly promised £5.2million of taxpayer's money to ...

British taxpayers' money will no longer be used to fund the project behind an Ethiopian girl band, the Department for International Development (DfID) has said. The five-piece pop group Yegna was ...

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Tsega is a teenager who wants to be a doctor. But the high schooler's parents want her to marry an older man who is well-off – and could support her parents, who are old and not rich. That's the ...