Admassu Getaneh marches past flowering herbs and thick grass along the edge of a plateau in the central Ethiopian Highlands. Morning sun glints off his Kalashnikov rifle. At his feet basalt ...

Up in the highlands of the Ethiopian plateau grows a tree with bright red fruit that came to profoundly shape morning rituals for people all over the world. Those little fruits—also known as ...

Aksum is located in the subhumid periphery of the Ethiopian highlands (formerly known as the Abyssinian Plateau) in northern Ethiopia, at the foot of the Beta Giyorgis hill in the north and northwest, ...