In 2017, astronomers on board the International Space Station photographed two eerie islands in Ethiopia. Dek and Daga lie in Lake Tana, whose copper-tinted waters have been important geographically ...

Famine in Tigray was not an outcome of war. It was the result of policies – a siege, economic blockade and obstruction of aid ...

A dotted line on Google Maps marking Western Sahara's border with Morocco vanished for users in the North African kingdom on Saturday, a day after a UN vote in favour of a plan by Rabat for the ...

A palace, legend has it, in a land we know today as Ethiopia. [Read more about traveling in Ethiopia.] The Ethiopian Highlands are sublime but unforgiving, with pastoralists heavily dependent on the ...

The African continent is gradually splitting apart. Although a new ocean is expected to form as a result, it won't be for millions of years.