Contemporary economic challenges in Africa appear to be shifting the continent into a new era of development. From COVID-19 ...

Last month, The New Humanitarian visited Gojjam in southern Amhara, one of the centres of the Fano rebellion. It provided a ...

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This week saw Donald Trump emerge victorious in the US presidential elections, beating his opponent Vice President Kamala ...

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

The recent summit between Egypt, Eritrea and Somalia signals yet another major shift in the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa ...

Two cases stand out as emblematic of this era: Rwanda's vision of a Dubai-style financial and service hub, and Ethiopia's rapid manufacturing and infrastructure ambitions. Much has been written ...

Interestingly, Safaricom Ethiopia has found itself in a position to potentially shape regulatory frameworks, given its status as a new entrant in a previously monopolised market. This situation ...

Last week at a lavish global summit in the Russian city of Kazan, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia, once a darling of ...

But it lacks shared values and a unified identity around which to cohere to benefit equitably from the current global order ...