A new video released by the Islamic State’s affiliates in Libya purports to show the killing of two groups of Ethiopian Christians. The 29-minute video shows two groups of captives held by the Islamic State (IS, formerly known as ISIS/ISIL), described by onscreen text as “followers of the cross from the enemy Ethiopian Church.” It says one group is being held by an ISIS affiliate... 

The United Nations says there is “no doubt” that thousands of people have been killed in the weeklong fighting across South Sudan, while official figures put the death toll at nearly 500. “Absolutely no doubt in my mind that we’re into the thousands” of dead, said Toby Lanzer, the top UN humanitarian chief in the country, at a press conference in the capital Juba on Tuesday. UN... 

African heads of state have taken part in a summit meeting on relations with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa. The summit kicked off on Saturday, with the African leaders urging the international body not to prosecute the continent’s incumbent heads of state. They also called on the ICC to defer the trials of presidents of Kenya and Sudan. Kenyan... 

South Sudan President Salva Kiir South Sudanese President Salva Kiir says that the recent border security agreement reached between the two Sudans will end long-time conflict between the two countries. “Today is a great day in the history of our region, and in particular Sudan and South Sudan, as we witness the signing of the cooperation agreement that brings to an end the long conflict between... 

A depiction of the Queen of Sheba meeting King Solomon of Israel from the Florence Baptistry in Italy. The Queen of Sheba’s genetic legacy may live on in Ethiopia, according to new research that finds evidence of long-ago genetic mixing between Ethiopian populations and Syrian and Israeli people. The Queen of Sheba, known in Ethiopia as Makeda, is mentioned in both the Bible and the Quran. The... 

Journalists Johan Persson (L) and Martin Schibbye Two Swedish journalists have been sentenced to 11 years in prison in Ethiopia for supporting terrorism and illegally entering the African state. Reporter Martin Schibbye and photographer Johan Persson were arrested in July after entering the eastern province of Ogaden from Somalia. “The court has sentenced both defendants to 11 years. We have... 

Professor Avi Gopher, a researcher from Tel Aviv University's Institute of Archaeology, holds a pre-historic tooth at Qesem cave, an excavation site near the town of Rosh Ha'ayin Scientists could be forced to re-write the history of the evolution of modern man after the discovery of 400,000-year-old human remains. Until now, researchers believed that homo sapiens, the direct descendants of... 

African leaders will ask rich nations for $67 billion per year to mitigate the impact of global warming on the world’s poorest continent, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters on Monday. Ten leaders are holding talks at African Union (AU) headquarters in the Ethiopian capital to try to agree a common stance ahead of a U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen in December. Experts...