Ten Somalis are facing a Hamburg court as Germany holds its first piracy trial in centuries. They are almost certain to be convicted, but any legal victory for the German authorities will be purely symbolic. Off the coast of...
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park has been listed among the 25 of the world's most beautiful places by the CNN.
On 8th March 2023, the CNN released its round up of the most beautiful places in the world, and Bwindi Impenetrable...
The FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square before the city’s annual tree-lighting Friday night, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oregon.
A Corvallis man, thinking he was going to ignite a bomb, drove a...
The Arab League plans to use its good relations with Nile Basin states to mediate between them on the one hand and Egypt and Sudan on the other in an effort to resolve longstanding differences over Nile water distribution,...
Dr. Eleni Gabre-Madhin is founder and CEO of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange.
A self-appointed coffee tsar in Seattle speaks, rather patronizingly, on behalf of the poor coffee farmer in Ethiopia. In the comfortable latte-infused cafés in which he may post...
Abdi Sheikh and Abdi Mohamed
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Mogadishu residents protested for a second day on Tuesday against food traders who are rejecting old currency notes, fuelling tension as residents go hungrier, witnesses said.
Hundreds of youths barricaded roads, stoned vehicles...
Ethiopia has evidence that Egypt recently aided rebel movements in the country, said the State Minister for Communications, Shimeles Kemal.
The allegation of Egyptian support for outlawed Ethiopian groups was first made by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in an interview...
ADDIS ABABA – Rebels in Ethiopia’s Ogaden region said on Friday they had killed 35 government troops in three days of fighting, a charge dismissed by the government.
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) wants autonomy for the ethnic Somali-dominated...
China-Africa Overseas Leather Products S.C., a company fully owned by Chinese investors, on Wednesday inaugurated the largest leather and leather products factory in Ethiopia to date with a capital of some USD 27 million.
During the inauguration ceremony of the...
MOGADISHU – A cabinet named by Somalia’s new prime minister was approved by parliament on Saturday after a previous attempt to endorse the ministers descended into chaos, legislators said.
Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, a teacher who had been living...

