When Abiy Ahmed became Ethiopia’s prime minister in 2018, he offered a clean slate for Africa’s oldest uncolonized nation, ...

The Ethiopian Civil War became one of the Cold War’s most devastating proxy conflicts as Soviet support, communist revolution ...

A power struggle in the Middle East is rippling across the Red Sea and fuelling Sudan’s bloody civil war. Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has “torn ...

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Competition involving the Gulf states and Turkey in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating preexisting African conflicts and risking a regional proxy war on both sides of the Red Sea. A new era of ...

In the years following the Civil War known as Reconstruction, newly-freed African American men could finally vote, and would be elected to represent ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Two once-harmonious groups of chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park suddenly became estranged and have spent the past eight years engaged in a bloody conflict, according to a study published ...

A power struggle in the Middle East is rippling across the Red Sea and fuelling Sudan’s bloody civil war. Violence on Sudan’s borders with Chad and Libya, increased fighting in South Sudan and massive ...