WW2 is conventionally dated to September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, but its origins can reasonably be traced back to ...

The Central Bank of Kenya invites bids for the purchase and smelting of 281 tonnes of old coins, ensuring strict compliance ...

Investor interest shifted to high-yield government bonds, undermining IPO prospects. The revised regulations, gazetted in ...

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, on Monday chaired the first UAE Cabinet meeting of 2026 at ...

Israel’s recognition this week of Somaliland – a self-declared country in northeast Africa – is part of a time-honored legacy ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke smiled as he held his arms aloft to acknowledge his audience for the last time. Last ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the “Burtele Foot” discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

For centuries, the country now known as Iran was called Persia, a name taken from Persis. Within the country, however, its ...

The death of deposed Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie on August 27, 1975, remains shrouded in mystery 25 years on as plans go ahead for his remains to be buried in a state funeral on Sunday.