Air traffic controllers in Lebanon were telling the pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines flight to change course shortly before it crashed into the sea, the country's transportation minister told CNN Tuesday.
British, French and Cypriot aircraft and a U.S. warship joined rescue crews searching the Mediterranean Sea off Lebanon's coast Monday, where an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed with 90 people aboard.
In just the past 19 days, an estimated 63,000 people have been displaced from their homes in Somalia by fighting involving government forces and militias, combined with "general insecurity," the United Nations' refugee agency said Tuesday.
Police in Hong Kong are searching for a man they believe was responsible for the latest acid attack on a popular tourist spot.
Recent rainfall has brought new vegetation to parts of Kenya that haven't seen rain for years, but aid workers say it's too little, too late to undo the damage caused by years of drought.
For the first time since 1982, an American man won the New York City Marathon on Sunday.
The oldest-known hominid skeleton was a 4-foot-tall female who walked upright more than 4 million years ago and offers new clues to how humans may have evolved, scientists say.
The actress brings her daughter on "a very special trip" to her homeland
The Ethiopian born designer has an eye for style. She launched a line of high-end handbags in 2006 and a year later married celebrated chef Wolfgang Puck. Together the couple live in LA and have made Forbes magazine's list of "Married celebrity entrepreneurs". While loving the California lifestyle, she still has strong connections to Ethiopia, putting much of her energy into her charity work there.
Somalis forced to flee war and drought are living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at home and in neighboring countries, including in Kenya and Ethiopia, an aid agency said Thursday.
Air traffic controllers in Lebanon were telling the pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines flight to change course shortly before it crashed into the sea, the country's transportation minister told CNN Tuesday.
British, French and Cypriot aircraft and a U.S. warship joined rescue crews searching the Mediterranean Sea off Lebanon's coast Monday, where an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed with 90 people aboard.
In just the past 19 days, an estimated 63,000 people have been displaced from their homes in Somalia by fighting involving government forces and militias, combined with "general insecurity," the United Nations' refugee agency said Tuesday.
Police in Hong Kong are searching for a man they believe was responsible for the latest acid attack on a popular tourist spot.
Recent rainfall has brought new vegetation to parts of Kenya that haven't seen rain for years, but aid workers say it's too little, too late to undo the damage caused by years of drought.
For the first time since 1982, an American man won the New York City Marathon on Sunday.
The oldest-known hominid skeleton was a 4-foot-tall female who walked upright more than 4 million years ago and offers new clues to how humans may have evolved, scientists say.
The actress brings her daughter on "a very special trip" to her homeland
The Ethiopian born designer has an eye for style. She launched a line of high-end handbags in 2006 and a year later married celebrated chef Wolfgang Puck. Together the couple live in LA and have made Forbes magazine's list of "Married celebrity entrepreneurs". While loving the California lifestyle, she still has strong connections to Ethiopia, putting much of her energy into her charity work there.
Somalis forced to flee war and drought are living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at home and in neighboring countries, including in Kenya and Ethiopia, an aid agency said Thursday.
Usain Bolt completed his hat-trick of sprint titles at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin as he helped the all-conquering Jamaican side power to victory in the men's 4x100m relay final.
Alfa Demmellash grew up on less than a dollar a day, and against the backdrop of torture and murder. But these days she's living the American dream and helping others do the same.
Ethiopian forces returned to Somalia on Tuesday, seizing control of a Somali border town, a local journalist told CNN.
Ethiopia's Deriba Merga forgot his Olympic disappointment when he won Monday's 113th Boston Marathon ahead of Kenyan Daniel Rono and Ryan Hall of America.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is on a state visit to neighboring Ethiopia despite being wanted for war crimes charges for his government's crackdown in Darfur.
Both the United States and France pulled off-high profile rescues in the waters off the Horn of Africa in the past week, killing a total of five pirates to free hostages who had been holed up for days.
As the Defense Department weighs options to prevent a repeat of the drama that unfolded on the seas this weekend, those who patrol the waters say pirates must be rooted out before they leave land.
When you are a CNN reporter out on the road, nothing is more important than the first task at hand every day -- securing the morning's first cup of coffee. After that, you can handle just about anything, from the war zone to the flood zone.
Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam kept the men's individual title at the world cross country championships in Ethiopia after winning a sprint finish to Saturday's championship in Jordan.
The African Union responded angrily and defiantly to the killing of at least 11 Burundian soldiers in an apparent suicide bomb attack Sunday in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
Brian Adkins, a newly assigned American diplomat in Ethiopia, was found dead last weekend at his home in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, an embassy spokesman and a senior State Department official told CNN.
Brian Adkins, a newly assigned American diplomat in Ethiopia, was found dead last weekend at his home in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, an embassy spokesman and a senior State Department official said Thursday.
Moderate Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Sheekh Ahmed was sworn in as Somalia's new president Saturday after he was voted in by the country's parliament, a Somali journalist said.
Ethiopia said Sunday it has withdrawn all its troops from Somalia, two years after the soldiers were deployed to prop up Somalia's transitional government.
Most people know that condoms prevent the spread of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
Zersenay Tadese of Eritrea won the men's world half marathon championship for the third time with a dominant performance in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.
At age 19, Yohannes Gebregeorgis borrowed a soft-cover romance novel entitled "Love Kitten" that changed his life forever.
The charitable foundation will be named after the couple's daughter Zahara
A U.N. agency rolled out a $214 million program Tuesday to help 16 needy places hit hard by high prices for food and oil, amid a crisis already making it hard for aid groups to provide enough food for the world's hungry
The farmlands are bursting with grain but the country is still suffering from starvation. Somehow good intentions have brought on perpetual want
Somalia's new opposition leader said Friday his supporters could take up arms against U.N. peacekeepers if they deploy in the lawless country and side with the country's weak government
Ethiopiques is not the sound of a national culture struggling to make itself heard over the global noise of pop
Some athletes earn the right to be considered a sporting legend. Few, in truth, are truly deserving of such an honor. But there can be no quarrel over the greatness of Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie who, in a career spanning 16 years, has redefined the art of long-distance running.
Aid groups say the older victims suggest there is an escalation in the crisis in Ethiopia, a country that drew international attention in 1984 when a famine compounded by communist policies killed 1 million people
Ethiopian ex-dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam may be forced from exile in Zimbabwe to face a death sentence at home if President Robert Mugabe is ousted in an upcoming election, an opposition spokesman indicated Tuesday.
Two days of fighting between government and Ethiopian troops and Islamic militants in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, left 81 civilians dead and more than 100 wounded, a local human rights group reported Sunday.
Government forces in Somalia raided a prominent independent radio station Sunday, whisking away its director and ransacking its equipment, the station reported on its Web site.
Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele broke the two-mile world record at an international indoor meeting in Birmingham on Saturday.
The medical aid charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres, is pulling international staff out of Somalia after three of its members were killed.
Born in 1978 and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Liya Kebede attended the French Lycée in Addis. It was here that she was talent-spotted by a French film director and began her rise to supermodel status.
Liya Kebede spoke to CNN about her experiences of seeing the pain and suffering of mothers and children on a recent trip to Ethiopia and how conditions for them are slowly improving thanks to the help the World Health Organization (WHO), and her own charity, the Liya Kebede Foundation.
Somalia should reach a cease-fire with its "non-extremist" opposition and finish plans to draft a new constitution, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday.
More African countries should send peacekeepers to Somalia, where an Islamic insurgency has killed thousands of civilians this year, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said
Ethiopia's government Tuesday called on the international community to step up its support for an African-led peacekeeping mission in Somalia, where Ethiopian troops have been mired in an Islamist insurgency since invading last December.
New fighting between Ethiopian troops and Somali insurgents is extinguishing the hope that the chaos was ending
Tafari Woosen is an Ethiopian Media Consultant with 40 years experience. Here he gives CNN his assessment of Haile Gebrsalassie and the impact that he has made during his prestigious career.
Ethiopian farmer Fekadu Asfaw stood defiantly before an angry veterinarian, having just beaten his four severely malnourished donkeys.
Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba has aborted her plans of completing a second world 5,000 and 10,000 metres double in Osaka because of stomach cramps.
Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba made an astonishing recovery to become the first woman to defend her world championship 10,000 meters title on Saturday.
A fabled fossil goes on view for the first time in decades -- and ignites a controversy
Ethiopia freed 32 opposition members Saturday who had been held without charges since a disputed 2005 election led to violent street protests, a senior official said.
More than seven years after most of the world marked the start of the 21st century, Ethiopia is putting the finishing touches to its own millennium bash.
See his distinctive stride and you could read a chapter of Haile Gebrselassie's life, the telltale peek at the world's greatest living distance runner, blowing through Central Park, then Times Square and the streets of Gotham as the Ethiopian legend ran away with the New York Half Marathon on Sunday morning.
The 3.2 million-year-old skeleton known as Lucy was quietly flown out of Ethiopia overnight for a tour of the United States, a trip some consider too risky
Born in 1978 and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Liya Kebede attended the French Lycee in Addis. It was here that she was talent-spotted by a French film director and began her rise to supermodel status.
Liya Kebede speaks to CNN about her experiences of seeing the pain and suffering of mothers and children on a recent trip to Ethiopia and how conditions are improving.
In a case some rights campaigners have dubbed an "African Guantanamo," a British-based group called on Kenyan, Somali and Ethiopian authorities to come clean over the whereabouts and fates of some 66 Muslim detainees unaccounted for in Ethiopia.
THE BACKGROUND More than 850 million people live in a state of hunger. Malnutrition kills more people annually than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. The majority of the hungry live in the ...
The search is continuing for five British tourists and a number of Ethiopians feared kidnapped in a remote area of the country.
To produce a pound of organic sun-dried coffee, farmers in the southern Ethiopian village of Fero spread six pounds of ripe, red coffee cherries onto pallets near their fields. They sun the fruit f...
Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba set a new world indoor record for the women's 5,000 meters when she crossed the line in 14 minutes, 27.42 seconds at the Boston Indoor Games on Saturday.
The background: More than 850 million people live in a state of hunger. Malnutrition kills more people annually than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. The majority of the hungry live in the developing world, especially in India and sub-Saharan Africa.
Ethiopian troops have taken control of the major Somalian town of Jowhar after several hours of heavy fighting with Islamist fighters and their force of about 2,000 soldiers advanced toward Balad, about 20 miles northeast of Mogadishu, according to witnesses.
The United Nations envoy to Somalia has warned of a "deteriorating situation" in the Horn of Africa nations and called for the U.N. Security Council to take steps to end the violence in the country.
2 billion: Cups of coffee drunk every day worldwide.
Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele powered to his fifth straight men's 4km title at the world cross country championships on Saturday.
FEB. 3, 2006 A look at hot spots, economic fault lines, and events that might have an impact on global risk.
(CNN) -- This month Richard's quest takes him on a journey to uncover the celebrity activist.
"The sun was shining ... so were the people, and so were the bands," U2's Bono said after coming off stage, one of the undoubted major stars of "The Global Jukebox," Live Aid 1985.
The Ethiopian government has rejected a call by human rights groups for an investigation into "police violence" during post-election unrest that left at least 27 people dead.
The death toll from clashes between protesters and security forces in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa has risen to at least 22 in a third day of unrest following a disputed election.
Israel's Ambassador to Ethiopia Doron Grossman was found with a gunshot wound in his Addis Ababa hotel room Wednesday, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
Noel Gallagher, Damon Albarn, Jamelia, Coldplay, The Darkness and Travis have been lined up to sing in a new version of Band Aid's original mega-hit "Do They Know it's Christmas?" British media reports say.
Elvan Abeylegasse, formerly of Ethiopia but now running for Turkey, broke the seven-year-old women's world 5,000 meters record at the Bergen Golden League meeting in Norway on Friday.
Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele won his third straight men's short race world title at the World Cross Country championships in Brussels on Saturday.
The scene could become a cliche: superstar musicians performing for a good cause. First came Live Aid and Band Aid against hunger in Ethiopia, then Farm Aid against financial distress in the grain ...
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