The Legendary Discovery That Started It All According to legend, the 9th-century goat herder Kaldi discovered the coffee ...

Ethiopian authorities had suspended nine DW correspondents in October, only to reinstate seven this week and permanently ...

For many African languages there are few written resources online that can be used to train AI. The African Next Voices project is trying to change that by recording underrepresented languages and ...

South African photographer Shem Compion has spent more than 20 years documenting the extreme geography and diverse inhabitants of the Great Rift Valley.

A volcano in northeastern Ethiopia erupted for the first time in almost 12,000 years in November 2025, but a dramatic video ...

Newfound fossils in modern-day Ethiopia suggest that the mysterious foot belonged to a recently named species, Australopithecus deyiremeda. The finding could alter the story of human evolution ...

The world is watching a slow-motion atrocity unfold in Nigeria and Ethiopia, and too many global institutions refuse to speak ...

Welcome to The War Room. This newsletter regularly covers Ukraine, Gaza and other geopolitical flashpoints, and rightly so.

Language shouldn't be a barrier to essential information, especially in local communities where people rely on public documents, school forms, health notices, or legal updates to stay informed. Yet ...

When President Donald Trump announced he had tested positive for COVID-19, his Twitter posts were flooded with his opponents writing in the Ethiopian language, Amharic. Writing in the language has ...

Fighting disinformation in today’s digital landscape is daunting, especially in linguistically diverse regions. For six years, I’ve worked across Africa, combating harmful digital narratives on ...

Background People living with HIV (PLWH) are more likely to develop hypertension and diabetes than people without HIV. Previous studies have shown that HIV stigma, discrimination and exclusion make it ...