Teetering on shifting Eritrea-Ethiopia border, Badme awaits fate
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Stuck in the limbo of the bitter border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the town of Badme strives to grow even as fresh conflict brews.
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BERAHILE, Ethiopia  - The mysterious kidnapping of five Europeans and eight locals has put the international spotlight on a remote, barren and searingly hot corner of Ethiopia left behind by the modern world.
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The inevitability of war hangs over Mogadishu, threatening to further destabilize the troubled Horn of Africa.
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EL FASHER, Sudan, Sept. 17 -- As the African Union prepares to abandon its troubled peace mission to Darfur, the region is descending ever more steeply into war.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- War or no war with Somalia, Mulunesh Abebayhu wants out. Out of her teaching job, where Ethiopian security forces constantly harass her because of her political views. Out of this city, where hundreds of protesters were killed by police bullets after disputed elections last...
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Authorities remained tight-lipped Tuesday over efforts to secure the release of five embassy staff feared kidnapped in Ethiopia, as newspapers speculated over their fate.
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The planned handover by Nigeria to Cameroon of the disputed region of Bakassi looks set to be delayed.
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YAOUNDE, Cameroon  - Clement grappled with the  guard outside his office at Cameroon's public service ministry.  He managed to get an arm and a leg through the gate but was  pushed back.
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Eritrean officials refused to grant U.N. peacekeepers permission to cross from Eritrea into Ethiopia, prompting them to regroup in the capital instead, U.N. officials said Tuesday.
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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned Tuesday a major humanitarian crisis could be developing in Ethiopia&#39;s rebel Ogaden region, where the organisation was repeatedly denied access in recent weeks.
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Ethiopia said Thursday it accepted "in principle" an independent commission's ruling on its border with former foe Eritrea, possibly signaling an end to a dispute that has simmered since their 1998-2000 war.
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As the month-end deadline nears for Sudan to disarm the mostly Arab pro-government militias in Darfur, the United Nations and Western powers are in a dilemma over how far to go to stop the killing in an African country.
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A group of 76 Eritreans on a  repatriation flight from Libya Friday forced their plane to  change course and land in the Sudanese capital Khartoum where  they sought political asylum, U.N. and Sudanese officials said.
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It's time to run for -- or from -- the Borders.
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Ethiopia said Thursday it accepted &quot;in principle&quot; an independent commission&#39;s ruling on its border with former foe Eritrea, possibly signaling an end to a dispute that has simmered since their 1998-2000 war.
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War could break out again between Ethiopia and Eritrea over their border, a former UN envoy warns.
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Eritrea has warned of a fresh eruption of &quot;chaos and turmoil&quot; in Somalia if the UN Security Council approves the deployment of African peacekeepers in the lawless African nation.