NPR's Scott Simon speaks to musician Meklit Hadero about her new album, "A Piece of Infinity," which celebrates Ethiopian music.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Ethiopian middle-distance runner Diribe Welteji has been barred from the world track championships a day before her first race amid a legal dispute over allegedly missing ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Ethiopia inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam on Tuesday, a $5 billion project aimed at electrifying millions of homes. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has stoked years of tension with ...

Ethiopia officially inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam on Tuesday, a project that will provide energy to millions of Ethiopians while deepening a rift with downstream Egypt that has ...

Ethiopia has inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile, as the $5bn project continues to sow dismay with downstream neighbours Sudan and Egypt. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has ...

African leaders are rallying in support of Ethiopia’s massive hydro dam on a Nile tributary, hailing it as a key step toward reducing the continent’s energy poverty, despite fierce opposition from ...

Ethiopia is prepared to inaugurate Africa’s largest hydroelectric project on Tuesday, which has promised to revolutionise the country’s energy sector but has sparked diplomatic rows with downstream ...