Africa often gets crammed into neat little stereotypes, safaris, deserts, pyramids, and maybe a lion or two roaring in the ...

In recent days, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has heightened its scrutiny of Ethiopia's foreign exchange market, spotlighting concerns over the burgeoning parallel black market that has ...

For centuries, Ethiopia’s proud Amharas—who claim descent from a night’s roistering between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba—shunned black Africans as barya (slaves).

Beyond their own financial and industrial success, Ethiopia’s national carrier and Morocco’s phosphate giant have become powerful instruments of national soft power. Such examples remain all too rare ...

A kesis or priest, waves a censer burning incense as he walks through rows of congregants at Re'ese Adbarat Debre Selam Kidist Mariam Church, an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church, in Washington ...

Congregants can follow the prayers on large plasma TVs that hang from church columns decorated with the green, yellow and red colors of the Ethiopian flag.

Ethiopian Orthodox Christians light candles and pray for peace during a church service at the Medhane Alem Cathedral in the Bole Medhanealem area of the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Thursday, Nov ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the U.S. capital, hundreds of Ethiopians dressed in traditional white shawls chant in the ancient liturgical language of one of the oldest branches of Christianity. During ...