Videos

A four-minute explainer on the Bab el-Mandeb, the thirty-kilometre gap between the Horn and Arabia that determines the region's economics.

Following a container from the Doraleh terminal to the Ethiopian highlands, and the delays that determine its cost.

How a payment system built without banks became the infrastructure of Somali commerce.

A walk through the capital whose 1930s architecture earned it UNESCO World Heritage status in 2017.

Inside the club system that has produced Olympic distance champions for six decades.

What the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam actually does, and what is genuinely in dispute.

A poet explains the form that carried Somali history before the language had a script.

Two thousand three hundred metres of ascent, and the cycling culture built on it.

Why a country sitting on one of the most volcanically active regions on earth imports electricity.

How consecutive failed rainy seasons reshape livelihoods across the Horn's rangelands.

An interview with founders building for a market where the addressing system is informal.

In the forests of south-western Ethiopia, where coffee arabica originated and still grows wild.