On 16 October, the Commission of Inquiry on Tigray Genocide (CITG) released its landmark report documenting atrocities ...

As 2025 comes to an end, conflict and defense analysts caution that 2026 may usher in a period of intensified geopolitical ...

From the ‘warrior’ midwife saving lives in Senegal to the outed Kenyan pop star speaking up against prejudice, these are some of the people who gave us hope ...

In Mogadishu, a familiar and corrosive pattern is resurfacing—one that has haunted Somalia’s political journey for decades.

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 ...

A few months ago, farmer Belete Melke was sheltering from a heavy downpour in a remote village in Ethiopia's Amhara region wh ...

Today, Eritrean forces control large swathes of Ethiopian territory as a direct result of Asmara’s involvement in the ...

The Pretoria Agreement, negotiated between 23 October and 2 November 2022, is one of the most consequential diplomatic ...

World's most populous landlocked country is caught in simmering tension with its neighbour in the Horn of Africa over access ...

Ethiopian authorities had suspended nine DW correspondents in October, only to reinstate seven this week and permanently suspend two. DW said it was considering legal action.

Ethiopia’s prime minister loves big projects. With a contentious megadam completed on the Nile, Abiy Ahmed is now planning Africa’s largest airport and a nuclear power plant. But tensions with ...

The United States House of Representatives has passed a far-reaching defence policy bill authorising a record $901bn in annual military spending. The tally in Wednesday’s vote saw 312 lawmakers vote ...