Keneni Adugna was twenty five: an engineer, a model, a young woman whose face was known to millions online. On the morning of March 10, 2025, she died in a fall from the Addis Ababa apartment building where she lived with her partner. She was about five months pregnant.
What followed did not look like an investigation to the people who loved her. Photographs and videos that surfaced showed injuries that friends and advocates said told a story of abuse. Friends said she had described being isolated and controlled. A suspect was detained, then released for what police called lack of evidence, and the case went quiet. No one has been held accountable for her death.
Petitions carrying her name now ask for one thing: an independent, transparent investigation. Keneni appears here as the mark because she can no longer choose how to appear, and because her story is exactly why this movement exists: a woman told people she was in danger, and the danger won. The questions around her death belong to all of us until they are answered.