Our adventure in Ethiopia continued (see part 1 and 2 here) through to the ancient and mysterious town of Axum which claims to be the resting place of the Ark of the Covenant and follows further north ...

AXUM, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Ethiopians cheered on Thursday as a 1,700-year-old giant stone obelisk taken to Italy by fascist invaders in the 1930s was restored to its historic site ...

Two Colfax staples have closed. On the east side of the storied street, a chain-link fence now surrounds Axum, which served food from breakfast until late night, when the place would often “become ...

On a blistering June afternoon in north Denver, painter Jack Price II is putting the finishing touches on a vibrant new mural covering the basketball court in City of Axum Park, assisted by the ...

On Friday, people in the Ethiopian city of Axum will gather to celebrate Christmas, as will some 280 million other Orthodox Christians around the world. But wait, isn’t Christmas on Dec. 25? Most ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Soldiers from Eritrea systematically killed “many hundreds” of people, the large majority men, in a massacre late November in the Ethiopian city of Axum in the Tigray region, ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Eritrean soldiers killed hundreds of civilians in Ethiopia's ancient town of Axum between Nov. 28 and 29, rights group Amnesty International said on Friday, one of several mass ...

This week was full of pleasant surprises. On Sunday I watched my glorious Indiana Hoosiers defeat their craven archrival Purdue in men’s basketball, just as the weather became warm enough for me to ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia on Wednesday said it is investigating “credible allegations of atrocities and human rights abuses” in its embattled Tigray region, including in the city of Axum, where ...