Welcome to The War Room. This newsletter regularly covers Ukraine, Gaza and other geopolitical flashpoints, and rightly so.

The world is watching a slow-motion atrocity unfold in Nigeria and Ethiopia, and too many global institutions refuse to speak ...

Grief has always been a private emotion. It once belonged to families, to neighbourhoods, to communities; those after burial ...

Ximdo is a peoples peace movement that has been growing in the war and famine plagued Horn of Africa for several months now .

A group of Eritrean community members are banding together to try to bring a clinical psychologist from East Africa to ...

Balochistan is Pakistan’s largest yet most neglected province. It stretches across the country’s southwestern edge, bordering ...

One fled war-torn Ethiopia and arrived in St. Paul at age 20. Another has a degenerative neuromuscular condition called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. There’s one who hopes to represent Haiti ...

Archaeologists in England have uncovered a fleet of ancient boats carved from single tree trunks, revealing how prehistoric ...

The Moon has long been treated as a solved story, a familiar backdrop that humans mapped, walked on and then mentally filed away. Fresh work by NASA scientists is quietly overturning that assumption, ...

Alliances have formed, generals prepare, and the Ethiopian powder keg looks set to blow. All eyes are on Mr Abiy, and how far he is really willing to go to achieve his vision of an expanded Ethiopia.

Kenya could once again be dragged back into a role it thought it had outgrown. It was once one of several African cities offering shelter to political refugees: rebels, dissidents and ousted leaders.

At a military checkpoint in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, an area reckoning with the aftermath of one of the 21st century’s deadliest wars, heavily armed soldiers ordered a reporter on assignment with The ...