NAIROBI (Reuters) - Five hundred years ago, an Imam who ruled much of what is now Somalia, led a daring invasion of Christian Ethiopia, looting monasteries, burning down churches and slaying all who ...

To Ethiopia’s growing alarm, Egypt is also set to join the multinational force supporting the Somali army against the jihadist threat by al-Shabaab. Egypt’s potentially destabilising presence in the ...

Growing tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia, heightened by arms shipments, risk destabilising the fragile Horn of Africa and creating opportunities for the Islamist insurgents of Al-Shabaab, experts ...

The recent summit between Egypt, Eritrea and Somalia signals yet another major shift in the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa — a region long beset by chronic instability, rivalry and competing ...

Except for the Red Sea coastline, only limited stretches of the country's borders are defined by natural features. Most of Ethiopia's borders have been delimited by treaty. The Ethiopia-Somalia ...

Although the Horn of Africa is frequently spoken as a single, easily defined entity, it's actually more than just a single country, border, or fixed identity. It is a vast, multi-layered area that has ...

Ethiopia on Wednesday warned that a new African Union-led mission for Somalia could worsen tensions in volatile East Africa after Egypt said it sent military aid to the conflict-ridden nation. The new ...

Ethiopia and Somalia have agreed to engage in negotiations to end a dispute over a deal signed nearly a year ago between Ethiopia and the breakaway Somali region of Somaliland. Turkey announced the ...

With the crisis in the Horn of Africa continuing, UNHCR has noted an evolving displacement pattern during August with fewer Somalis displaced within Somalia or into Kenya or Ethiopia, but rising ...

NAIROBI, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Five hundred years ago, an Imam who ruled much of what is now Somalia, led a daring invasion of Christian Ethiopia, looting monasteries, burning down churches and slaying ...