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When Abiy Ahmed became Ethiopia’s prime minister in 2018, he offered a clean slate for Africa’s oldest uncolonized nation, which had been suffocated by decades of strict state control. His predecessor ...

In the years following the Civil War known as Reconstruction, newly-freed African American men could finally vote, and would be elected to represent ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A power struggle in the Middle East is rippling across the Red Sea and fuelling Sudan’s bloody civil war. Violence on Sudan’s borders with Chad and Libya, increased fighting in South Sudan and massive ...