Ethiopia

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s top regional body opened its annual summit on Saturday in Ethiopia to discuss the future of the continent of some 1.4 billion people, as the organization faces…

Ethiopia has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the south of the country, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said.The Marburg virus is one of the deadliest known pathogens. Like…

Malaria infection rates are soaring in Ethiopia, where a combination of armed conflict, climate change and mosquitoes’ growing resistance to drugs and insecticides has accelerated the spread of a disease the country once thought it was…

Tensions boiled over when Ethiopia agreed to lease 20km (12 miles) of coastline from Somaliland in exchange for recognition of its independence.The Somali and Ethiopian foreign ministers will meet in Ankara next week to discuss…

HISTORYTHE PRINCE AND THE PLUNDER by Andrew Heavens (History Press £22.99, 272pp)In the back row of a class photograph taken at Rugby School in 1876, you can spot just one person of colour, peering out shyly from behind one of his more…

MEMOIR FROM UTMOST EAST TO UTMOST WEST by John Blashford-Snell (Bradt £14.99, 541pp) The trick when having a meeting with the Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, apparently, was to bow down so low as you reversed out of the Royal…