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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yegna means "ours" in Amharic, and it's the name of what’s currently Ethiopia’s most popular band. Five young women make music advocating social change and female empowerment. But recently it has lost ...

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 ...

Yegna is an all-girl Ethiopian acting and pop group that aims to foster women and girl's rights in Ethiopia Facebook/Yegna The allocation of £5.2m ($6.5m) UK foreign aid to support projects of an ...

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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