During the Scramble for Africa, nearly every region of the continent fell under European control—except Ethiopia. Italy attempted to turn Ethiopia into a protectorate through a deceptive treaty and ...

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Three columns of fresh infantry marched through narrowing mountain passages; they would approach Adwa by 9 a.m. This Week in History, thousands of men and women take up arms in a desperate struggle to ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Five hundred years ago, an Imam who ruled much of what is now Somalia, led a daring invasion of Christian Ethiopia, looting monasteries, burning down churches and slaying all who ...

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The government of Ethiopia has called for the cancellation of a sale of a shield at a British auction house. The object was looted in 1868 during the Battle of Maqdala, a punitive expedition against ...

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