As Palestinians struggle to find food,humanitarians and UN officials are warning that famine is imminent in the enclave. What is it exactly?
Two OPEC members would add financial heft to the BRICS group of nations amid dissatisfaction the current world order disproportionately favours the West.
Prince Dejatch Alemayehu was heir to the throne of Abyssinia,now known as Ethiopia. He was taken to the UK by victorious British forces after his father died and made a ward of Queen Victoria.
The civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray may have come to an end on its second anniversary.
The perfect dish,injera acts as tablecloth,as eating utensil,and as the main dish.
Ethiopia has faced growing international pressure to ease restrictions on the flow of humanitarian aid into war-ravaged Tigray region cut off by a government assault more than a year ago.
Before the latest attack,at least 146 people had been killed and 213 injured in air strikes in Tigray since October 18.
The continent is destabilised by conflicts in Ethiopia,Somalia and South Sudan. Beijing hopes its new envoy will help end them.
The invasion of the US Capitol on January 6 was only the first in a series of extraordinary events and huge moments that would dominate the news in 2021.
In his latest attempt to rally all able Ethiopians to fight what he now calls an “existential war” against Tigrayan forces.
The government has declared a state of emergency and urged the capital 5 million residents to register their weapons and defend their neighbourhoods.