Events from this week in Christian history include the start of the Protestant Reformation, Doug Phillips resigning from Vision Forum, and the death of Ethiopian Church leader Salama III.
Geography is destiny,” says the old aphorism. Karl Marx had a comeback: people make their own history, just not as they please. In the Horn of Africa this ...
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Prisoner of History, Not Geography

In early October 2026, Ethiopia and Eritrea took their quarrel to the UN Security Council by letter. Addis Abeba told council members that Eritrean troops had advanced up to 60 km into Tigray, which ...
By Dessalegn Kassa October 22, 2026 (ENA) Ethiopia is entering a new political and economic chapter, seeking to translate its ...
That memory traveled across the ocean. It found its way into the politics, culture, and faith of communities in the Americas and the Caribbean. Emperor Haile Selassie, called Ras Tafari before he was ...
Abiy Ahmed’s decision to retain Gedion Timothewos as foreign minister for another five-year term is beyond a mere administrative decision, a potentially consequential choice about the institutional ...
Ethiopia’s recurring wars don’t stem from ancient ethnic hatreds, but from a failure to agree on the rules for resolving ...
Somalia needs a foreign policy that gives its people a better chance of living in peace. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud should place cooperation with Ethiopia at the center of that effort while ...
Tigray’s renewed war is testing Ethiopia’s already strained regional ties.
Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has called for easier cross-border trade and stronger economic cooperation between Kenya ...
Ethiopia’s ‘betrayal’ claim against Somalia masks an interventionist record and overreach that fuelled its own regional ...
Why does a nation repeatedly resort to war despite having experienced its devastating consequences for generations? Is Ethiopia’s predicament rooted in its ...