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In the east and Horn of Africa, a harrowing drought. FILE - Young boys pull containers of water as they return to their huts from a well in the village of Ntabasi amid a drought in Samburu East ...
A study of centuries-old DNA has deciphered the complex ancestry of coastal East Africa's Swahili people, revealing how a cosmopolitan and prosperous medieval civilization arose thanks in large ...
Its ornate stone and coral towns hugged 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) of the coast, and its merchants played a linchpin role in the lucrative trade between Africa and lands across the ocean: News ...
Next, we head for Mombasa, Kenya's second city, aboard a dhow – a traditional sailing boat from the Swahili coast. It was here, in East Africa's largest port, that enslaved people transported by ...
East Africa is on the cusp of conflict. ... Dr. Elmi is a professor at the City University of ... The catalyst for the conflict is Mr. Abiy’s obsession with making Ethiopia a coastal state.