On Wednesday, crowds gathered in Gondar, a city in Ethiopia s Amhara region, to celebrate Epiphany. If the celebration is usually this year, many were not in a party mood.
Growing up, Arega Tekeba's fondest memories involved the feasts his father would prepare for Ethiopia's Orthodox epiphany festival Timkat - the way he would lead their family in song while roasting a freshly-slaughtered sheep. But those memories are now acutely painful.