ETHIOPIA

Tullow Oil PLC recently announced an oil discovery in Kenya. Here is an economic analysis of what the discovery could mean for the future of the country.

Researchers discovered a 3 million year old fossilized foot that shows two prehuman species coexisted

A number of international powers rushed to warn Sudan that recent military clashes near the border with South Sudan are propelling the nations toward war yet again.

Oil has been discovered in Kenya for the first time by Anglo-Irish firm Tullow Oil.

Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, the former president of Somalia and a controversial leader, dies at the age of 77.

The leader of the three-day-old coup in Mali says he will step down and schedule elections once security is established in the country.

Samsung Electronics Co aims to double its share of the sub-Saharan smartphone market to 20 percent by next year, as it focuses on affordable handsets, the head of its Africa business said on Thursday.

Egypt's Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III passed away today, but you'd be forgiven for never having heard of him.

Given the lack of sufficient infrastructure and endless political instability, Sudan’s energy sector faces many monumental challenges.

In a bid to tamp down high gas prices, federal regulators hope to have rules in place that would limit oil and gasoline price speculation on Wall Street in several months.

The 30-minute Kony 2012 video by San Diego-based charity Invisible Children went viral last week promoted further by social media endorsements and campaigns by celebrities like Oprah Winfrey.

The vain Italian Fascist and the modest, unassuming Indian ascetic got along extremely well and admired each other.

Angelina Jolie's sultry, leg bearing dress at the Oscars has spawned a media frenzy. Now reports are surfacing that she may have had a very good reason for making people focus to her leg. Angie is said to be expecting her 7th child!

Hours after Yemen’s new President Abdurabu Mansur Hadi took office, al-Qaeda network launched a massive suicide bomb attack in the country to signal the arrival of the new, democratic era in the strife-torn country.

Renown street artist creator of the famous Obama Hope image plead guilty to contempt in Federal court Friday; we examine a few other art-related crimes.

The technology sector is slowly growing in Kenya, but this weekend a misplaced anchor near the port of Mombasa has damaged high-speed connectivity in East Africa.

HSBC Global Connections is bullish on international business and sees some hot ideas for U.S. exporters for 2012 and beyond.

Two major explosions shook the key Somalia city of Baidoa, only hours after Ethiopian troops and pro-government forces there helped wrest the Baidoa from the hands of Al-Qaeda backed insurgents. The intensifying conflict falls on the same day world leaders gather in London for a conference to address diplomatic response to decades of instability in Somalia.

An ancient goldmine discovered on a hill on the Gheralta plateau in northern Ethiopia is said to be the treasure trove of Queen of Sheba.

International business opportunities and trends depend on several broad factors: the economic growth of these countries, the ease of doing business there and the friendliness of their trade policies.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi announced Wednesday that he may pardon journalists, politicians, and dissidents detained under an 2009 anti-terrorism law, while refuting claims that the arrests were politically motivated.