Parliamentary elections in Ethiopia will be held on June 1 next year, the electoral commission said, despite the country ...

Ethiopia 's prime minister loves big projects. With a mega-dam completed on the Nile, Abiy Ahmed now plans Africa's largest ...

Syrian transitional authorities have taken positive steps on justice, transparency and rights but failed to prevent continued ...

Deep beneath East Africa, the planet is quietly rewriting its own map. A colossal crack is opening in the crust, slowly ...

Aid delivery remains extremely difficult in violence-ridden areas, where clashes continue between the Sudanese army and the ...

Human rights groups say the world must pay more attention to the assault on one of Africa’s oldest Christian communities.

Tourism has been a part of human history for centuries, although the concept as we understand it today has evolved over time. The term "tourist" has been in ...

South African photographer Shem Compion has spent more than 20 years documenting the extreme geography and diverse inhabitants of the Great Rift Valley.

The UN’s World Food Programme has a reputation for handing out large quantities of food in disaster zones and then moving on.

As Africa undergoes a dramatic geological shift that may one day split the continent in two, here’s everything you need to ...

Ximdo is a peoples peace movement that has been growing in the war and famine plagued Horn of Africa for several months now .

Recent major volcanic eruptions in Indonesia and Ethiopia have sparked questions about increasing activity. However, experts ...