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 ...

Looted treasure is being returned to Ethiopia over a century and a half after it was stolen by British troops. The Scheherazade Foundation, a British nonprofit, purchased the cache of Maqdala ...

Joseph travels to Northern Ethiopia to uncover its ancient history. Joseph travels Northern Ethiopia from the monasteries of Lake Tana to the castles of King Fasiladas in Gondar and the rock-hewn ...

Ethiopia’s recurring wars don’t stem from ancient ethnic hatreds, but from a failure to agree on the rules for resolving ...

A cheering crowd surrounds the toppled statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Addis Ababa following the overthrow of the Ethiopian military regime in 1991. Jerome Delay/AFP ...

Ethiopia's history began with the Kingdom of D'mt in the 10th Century BCE, followed by the Aksum Empire around 100 CE, which expanded from Nubia to Arabia. After the collapse of Aksum, the Zagwe ...

ADDIS ABABA, May 20 (Reuters) - Ethiopians vote on Sunday in the first election since a disputed 2005 poll ended violently, with 193 protesters and seven policemen killed in street riots. Sign up here ...

Ethiopia is a compendium on Ethiopia and Northeast Africa for travellers, students, businessmen, people interested in Africa, policymakers and organisations. In this book 85 specialists from 15 ...

Since the emergence of its modern state, Egypt has never been a loyal neighbor or a sincere partner in the Nile Basin. I nstead, it has consistently acted according to the logic of a colonial power ...

I spent the last week of February teaching Old Testament at the newly-formed Trinity Fellowship Pastors College in Addis Ababa. Ethiopia is by far the oldest nation I’ve visited, one of the few Old ...