This is the third installment of Malcolm Gladwell and Nicholas Thompson’s discussion of the 2015 World Track and Field Championships. Here are part one and part two. Nicholas Thompson: Wow. What an extraordinary end to the world championships. You must be doing somersaults! The Jamaicans dominated the sprints, Mo Farah won two more gold medals,
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Fighters from the al-Shabab militant Islamist group have overrun an African Union military base in southern Somalia, inflicting heavy casualties, witnesses have told the BBC. The militants said they have killed 70 AU soldiers at the Janale base, 90km (55 miles) south-east of the capital. AU forces say they are back in control after taking
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Miners say they are able to save money to buy cars and houses thanks to government’s focus on safety and health issues. The Ethiopian highlands are often called “the roof of Africa”. It’s a rugged, breathtakingly beautiful landscape and a discovery in recent years has got precious gem experts around the world excited: opals. Ethiopia’s
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Almaz Ayana won the 5,000-meter final on Sunday in a world championship record 14 minutes, 26.83 seconds, leading an Ethiopian sweep of the medals. With four laps to go, Ayana made a move and started to lift the pace, leaving Genzebe Dibaba behind. With two laps to go, she led by 50 meters. Dibaba, who
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Ethiopia’s Mare Dibaba triumphed in the women’s marathon following a sprint finish at the world athletics championships in Beijing. Dibaba edged out Kenyan Helah Kiprop in the home straight inside the Bird’s Nest to win by just one second in a time of two hours, 27 minutes and 35 seconds. Eunice Kirwa of Bahrain claimed
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By Aljazeera Conservationists are facing a race against time to prevent one of Ethiopia’s most sacred religious site from crumbling away. The ancient churches of Lalibela in northern Ethiopia have been a place of pilgrimage for local Christians since they were constructed 800 years ago. The 11 churches were carved out of the mountainside during
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By Francie Diep Over the past few years, reports of police brutality against black Americans—and the resulting Black Lives Matter movement—have galvanized different people in different ways. For American Studies professor Duchess Harris, that meant writing a textbook aimed at middle and high schoolers. “I live in Minnesota, so I have lots of white
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By Francie Diep Over the past few years, reports of police brutality against black Americans—and the resulting Black Lives Matter movement—have galvanized different people in different ways. For American Studies professor Duchess Harris, that meant writing a textbook aimed at middle and high schoolers. “I live in Minnesota, so I have lots of white
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By Michelle Kelemen, NPR Just a few months ago, Bekele Gerba was languishing in a high security Ethiopian jail, hearing the cries of fellow prisoners being beaten and tortured. Now, the 54-year-old foreign language professor is in Washington, D.C., for meetings at the State Department. His message: The Obama administration should pay more attention to
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