The New York-based Julie Mehretu has become a star of the international art world, at times courting controversy.

Local communities start the process of justice and reconciliation two years after one of Africa’s worst wars.

Two years after the Pretoria agreements ended the Tigray war, what’s the situation on the ground? The conflict resulted in nearly 600,000 deaths, with Eritrean soldiers fighting alongside the ...

In a sign of warming ties, Egyptian and Turkish officials have met to discuss the situation in the Horn of Africa amid ...

Somaliland declared independence from the Mogadishu government in 1991 but has not been recognised by any other country.

African leaders may have been quick to congratulate Donald Trump on his election, professing a desire for mutually beneficial partnerships, but there are meager expectations ...

Diarrhea claims the lives of 500,000 children each year in low- and middle-income countries. Now researchers have linked chronic diarrhea to a specific pattern of gut bacteria, a discovery that could ...

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

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

Fort Worth, one of five cities that partnered to bring the guide to Texas, did not receive any stars, though four Tarrant ...

K-State officials say a multimillion-dollar award from the U.S. Agency for International Development will support work by researchers on multiple continents to make agriculture more resilient to ...

Yemane Haileselassie of Eritrea and Fentaye Belayneh of Ethiopia won the men's and women's open divisions, respectively, with times of 1:01:46 and 1:10:26.