Analysis - Famine - the extreme scarcity of food - devastated Ethiopia's Tigray region during and after a two-year war that began in November 2020. Yet, the famine's impact is one of the least ...

Most of the world uses a 12-month calendar. But this country follows a much older system. Their year has 13 months. The first 12 months each have 30 days. The 13th month, called Pagume, is a special, ...

What began as small shops in abandoned towers has become a continental trading network rooted in Johannesburg’s CBD.

Ironically, it was Fogerty, former leader of the equally no-nonsense Creedence Clearwater Revival, who inadvertently gave Status Quo their most enduring song. Fogerty’s original version of Rockin’ All ...

The doro wat—a chicken stew that serves as Ethiopia’s national dish—features chicken legs that have been simmered so tenderly in berbere-spiced sauce that they practically leap off the bone and into ...

The people’s history has confidence in its detailed, grand, often fantastical stories. Straddling both traditions is the tale of the Queen of Sheba, proof, perhaps, that Ethiopian villagers have ...

Officials say at least 15 JetBlue passengers were injured after a sudden drop in altitude forced an emergency landing in ...

Since dockworkers operate at a crucial “choke point” in the military supply chain to Israel, their boycotts are a powerful form of solidarity with Gaza.

Lincoln Smith's 10-acre food forest is next to a gas station and a church off a highway in Bowie, a reclaimed cornfield that ...

From Gaza to Sudan, and Syria to Ukraine, the long-standing idea that health should not be targeted in conflict is being increasingly undermined. Sharmila Devi reports.

Ethiopia’s quest for sea access, driven by logistical needs and economic ambition, faces strong headwinds from regional rivalries and tensions in the Horn of Africa. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is ...