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Ethiopia

Understanding Somalia’s Destruction

A State’s Unmaking

In the 1960s Somalia was a democratic pacesetter in Africa, and by the 1990s it was a byword for chaos and destruction. Inadequate institutions, territorial disputes, Cold War dynamics and an increasingly authoritarian leader all played their part in the country’s decline.

In Search of Ethiopia’s Garima Gospels

Faith and Violence in Tigray

The Garima Gospels were penned at a moment when time stood still — the sun held high in the sky by a less weary God. More than 1,500 years later, the Garima community is learning to live with myriad absences — the Gospels, their saint and their loved ones.