At 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide, the East African Rift (EAR) system is one of the geologic wonders of the world.

In many African nations, the military serves as a stabilizing force, not just for warding off aggression of neighboring ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

Ethiopia occupies a unique and pivotal place in the history of Islam. As the first refuge for Muslims fleeing persecution in Mecca, its significance extends ...

President Donald Trump thinks Spain, a highly developed market economy in Southern Europe, is an emerging BRICS country. In early January, Trump had called on NATO countries to more than double their ...

Donald Trump is already failing the implicit geography test that is taking office ... and new member states Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, UAE, and Iran. No state in the entire European Union is ...

Brazilian coffee producer Moacir Donizetti first smelled the smoke, and then watched in desperation as a blaze consumed his family coffee plantation last year. The 54-year-old was one of hundreds of ...

A semi-desert plain that lies between two rugged mountains has, for about five months, been the epicenter of volcanic activity in Ethiopia's Afar region. From a distance, it looks serene and peaceful.

The suffragette now lies in the shady tree-lined graveyard of an Ethiopian cathedral. The headstone on her ornate grave is adorned with Sylvia’s photograph and that of her son Richard while ...

Somalia announced that obstacles to Ethiopia's participation in the new African Union mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) have been overcome, and the final stage of the composition and size of Ethiopian ...