Articles
More Than 23,000 Refugees Flee South Sudan Conflict
(JUBA, South Sudan) — A U.N. official says more than 23,500 people have fled fighting in South Sudan's Jonglei state and sought refuge in neighboring countries...
The Ogaden Problem: Will an Old Insurgency Tip the Balance in East Africa?
How Ethiopia's inability to reconcile the Ogaden's rebels has implications for militants and governments across the Horn of Africa
Seeds of Change
The Tigray region in the Rockstrewn highlands of northern Ethiopia isn't the type of place where you'd expect to find an innovative financial product. Its...
Ethiopia Faces Dangers but Also Opportunities in Meles Succession
Nibret Gelese spent years saving up to move from his home town Mekele, in the north of Ethiopia, and make a newlife in Addis Ababa. “Everyone said it was the...
The Strongman Who May Be Missed: Meles Zenawi, 1955-2012
Meles Zenawi always said he didn’t intend to die in office. Speaking to TIME as long ago as 2007, the Ethiopian Prime Minister was talking about moving on: “I...
Photo Essays
A Parched Land, A Starving People
Drought has cast its shadow over the Horn of Africa. Three years of scant rainfall in Ethiopia has left the land parched, killing livestock and resulting in the...
Ethiopia's Harvest of Hunger
In spite of its fertile farmland, the African nation still teeters on the brink of starvation Photographs for TIME by Thomas Dworzak
