Sub-Saharan Africa saved money using mobile accounts in 2024, well above the 9% average in low- and middle-income countries. Mobile money accounts now fuel nearly 60% of formal borrowing in the region ...

Ashenda is a vibrant traditional festival celebrated primarily in northern Ethiopia, particularly among the Tigray and Amhara communities, as well as in parts of Eritrea. This unique celebration takes ...

Last month witnessed the resumption of informal cross-border movement between Ethiopia and Eritrea, a frontier that has remained largely closed since the outbreak of the war in Tigray region in ...

Northern Ethiopia is growing increasingly tense two and a half years after the Tigray peace deal. Eritrea appears intent on ...

The group accused Ethiopia’s government of failing to properly investigate the deaths, which took place in the Tigray region.

In the north of Mozambique, Al-Shabaab have waged a brutal insurgency since 2017, leading to beheadings, rapes, and burned villages, even as recent as reports dated 2024. The fight over liquified ...

International aid organization Doctors Without Borders has released a report describing the gunning-down of three staffers in Ethiopia's Tigray region four years ago as an "intentional and targeted ...

An investigation by medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) into the "execution" of three of its workers during a ...

The recent war left many disabled veterans without the care they need. Health facilities across the region were largely destroyed by the fighting. Now cuts in U.S. foreign aid have sent overwhelmed ...

As much as the war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region represented the peak of Eritrean-Ethiopian coordination and rapprochement, the understandings that concluded the war marked the beginning of a new ...

MEKELE, Ethiopia (AP) — Chandera Weldesenbet is worried about dying before he receives the help he needs. The 41-year-old veteran of the recent war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has metal shrapnel in ...