The first Martin Luther King Jr. Day was January 20, 1986. Coretta Scott King, the wife of Dr. King, had a great idea in the year prior to the first ...

Civilians in East Africa and the Horn bore the brunt of armed conflicts between government forces and opposition armed groups ...

Of course, both adverts will raise cash for aid agencies undertaking life-saving work in Gaza and Lebanon. If the purpose is ...

It isn't just the wildfires in California; many of this country's worst problems are a direct result of policies put in place ...

An iconic figure in African history, Haile Selassie is remembered as a powerful and progressive politician who modernized ...

An international development expert from Cumbria will give a talk in Carlisle on the 1984-85 Ethiopian famine.

The ensete plant, which resembles a banana tree and already feeds 20 million Ethiopians, offers nutrition and drought ...

But it was only two decades later, in a beautifully written memoir, The Road Taken, that broadcaster Michael Buerk, pictured, presenter of Radio 4's Moral Maze, exposed the truth about his own father, ...

Two years into the conflict that has been raging in the country, the war in Sudan has suddenly caught the eye of Western media. In Britain, “The Times” called it the "forgotten war." Oh God!