IT is 40 years since Dame Claire Bertschinger was a nurse on the front line of the devastating famine in Ethiopia, deciding which starving children to save. But the torment of not being able to ...

The transformative power of music was recently illustrated when the first notes were played on a piano at a girls’ boarding ...

My neighbor disappeared into the hallowed halls of Addis Ababa's Yared music school, never to emerge as a graduate. I used to ...

Event attendees danced to traditional Tigrayan music and wore cultural attire such as the Habesha kemis, a traditional ...

The Nuer are a large pastoralist community living in western Ethiopia and South Sudan in east Africa. They rely on livestock ...

A new NPR series, "Throw It Back," explores how the objects we love as kids shape our worldview as adults. The series begins with the story of Mahlet Assefa and her cotton dress.

By October 1984, drought and conflict in a remote part of northern Ethiopia had left millions on the brink of starvation, ...

Adopted as a toddler from Ethiopia, Old Mill senior Tsedeke Jakovics has found a passion for running and the community it ...

Antiques Roadshow's Marc Allum refused to value items on the popular BBC show because of their significant social history. Live Aid was set up in 1984 as a way to set up a global response through ...

Irreechaa, a prominent celebration in Ethiopia, particularly among the Oromo ... Men, women and even children are attired in their traditional white cultural dresses which depicts that Irreechaa ...

If you track down Michael Buerk’s game-changing dispatch from Korem on the famine in northern Ethiopia, which first aired 40 ...