For exactly two years leading up to November 2022, northern Ethiopia experienced intense fighting between federal forces and ...

T he silencing of the guns in Tigray, a northern region of Ethiopia in which hundreds of thousands of people may have died in ...

Another war in Tigray would be a catastrophe—and not just for Tigrayans and other Ethiopians. It would intensify and expand ...

CFR President Michael Froman discusses the latest from the civil war in Sudan with Michelle Gavin, senior fellow for Africa ...

We are living in an age of autocrats — leaders who sit at varying points along a spectrum of repression and violence. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ...

Madagascar, the country off the southeastern coast of Africa, experienced its latest military coup from October 12 to 14, 2025, when the elite military unit “Army Corps of Personnel and ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered authorities to improve a Chicago-area immigration facility after a group of detainees sued, alleging they were being kept in “inhumane” conditions.

When she went to the polls during early voting, Rachel Walker felt pressure from some fellow progressives to support Austin’s Proposition Q tax increase, believing it would help fund crucial services, ...

Here’s a look at the armed conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s federal Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and forces of the previously dominant political ...

Child and forced marriage in Ethiopia's Tigray region remains one of the most pressing yet under-recognized gendered consequences of the recent war. The 2020-2022 war abruptly reversed decades of ...

Lawrence Mead’s Political Breakdown (2025) is not a book of partisan skirmishing or quick diagnoses. It is instead a cultural meditation on why the United States, a society that once seemed uniquely ...