Hye Frequencies is a New York City-based Armenian DJ collective on a mission to showcase Armenian music and culture while ...

Shazam identifies rising artists before they break, based on early song-recognition trends. Today, the platform revealed its Fast Forward 2026 lineup.

The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people ...

Eritrea has withdrawn from East African regional bloc Igad, accusing the organisation of "becoming a tool against" countries like itself. In a statement on Friday, Eritrea's foreign ministry said Igad ...

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, left, is welcomed by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at Addis Ababa International Airport, Ethiopia, July 14, 2018 (AP photo by Mulugeta Ayene). Tensions between ...

The silencing of the guns in Tigray, a northern region of Ethiopia in which hundreds of thousands of people may have died in a brutal civil war between 2020 and 2022, was a rare example of peacemaking ...

YouTube has paid more than $8 billion to the music industry in the 12 months between July 2024 and July 2025, the company announced on Thursday. “Today’s $8 billion payout is a testament to the fact ...

YouTube is celebrating 10 years of its YouTube Music app on Thursday with the launch of new features that bring it closer to rival Spotify and others. The app will now include “Taste Match” playlists, ...

Ethiopia and Eritrea are playing a dangerous game of chess; Tigray lies right in the centre of the board. The relationship between the two nations has deteriorated over the past few years, with the ...

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Simmering tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea flared this week after an opinion piece penned by Ethiopia’s former president Mulatu Teshome provoked a strongly worded response from Asmara. “Isaias is ...