For 1,000 years, this city on a hilltop has been a center of Islamic faith in the Horn of Africa, with a forbidding, 13-foot wall surrounding ancient mosques and serpentine alleyways. Now, Harar ...
Ethiopia - Feb 4, 2025 - Today marks a pivotal moment with the official launch of Nedamco Africa’s EWAC (Ethiopia Water Action Collaborative) program in Harar, Ethiopia. Following the successful proof ...
Harar (Agenzia Fides) - "None of the kidnappers ever contacted me or my priests, and as far as I know from what my priests have told me, the kidnappers contacted the family the day after the ...
Harar, Ethiopia – When Abdallah Ali Sherif was growing up in eastern Ethiopia, his parents never spoke about the history of his city. “When I asked my parents about our history, they told me we didn’t ...
Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. On a hilltop in the eastern Ethiopian Highlands stands the ancient walled ...
The first-time filmmaker, who fled Ethiopia for Mexico as a child, returns to the city of Harar for this inventive documentary about khat, the stimulant that has become the nation's biggest cash crop.
Reporting from Harar, Ethiopia — Here in this medieval city in eastern Ethiopia, the humans and the hyenas are living in peace. The truce began two centuries ago (or so the story goes) during a time ...
HARAR—The trip’s worst day coincides with my 37 th birthday. In the open-air market outside the walls of a 16 th-century Islamic town called Harar, I slip, fall, and scrape my left leg. Among the ...
A new train from the Ethiopian capital to the Djibouti coast offers a desert journey into parts of East Africa that have been off the tourist track. Lebu Station, on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, ...