In the tumultuous tapestry of Ethiopian politics, a single charge has emerged as both provocative and misleading: the accusation that “ethnic federalism” mirrors apartheid – that infamous system of ...

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all have shuffled off our mortal coils by then, the effects Professor Macdonald ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

Scheicho Scheifa is haunted by the fear of going blind. A disease called trachoma has turned his eyelids inwards, causing his eyelashes to scar his corneas so badly that one has already turned opaque.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out ...

More than 9 million Ethiopian children are currently out of school. They are caught in the crossfire of armed conflicts, ...

The United States hasn’t had a military draft since 1973, but men between the ages of 18-25 are still required to register ...

Ethiopia's Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025. The ...

There are roughly two dozen or so volcanoes in a state of “unrest” or erupting somewhere on the planet. 2025 has been no ...

President Biden’s longtime aide rallied scores of nations to defend Ukraine, but then became a villain to the many critics of ...

Alfred Wegener published his proposal that continents had moved. He presented various lines of evidence, of which the best remembered is the fact that the opposite shores of the Atlantic ...