The Ethiopian city of Harar has been known as an Islamic centre for centuries but it also has a more recent tradition - brewing beer.

Otherwise Harar Jugol, a Unesco World Heritage city – said to be Islam’s fourth holiest city on account of 82 mosques – that was once a prosperous, independent kingdom, lives a strangely ...

None of this is working, and Harar is not at all what I’d imagined. It’s less than a square mile packed tight with warrens of houses and mosques; at least 99, as many as the Islamic names for God.

Our correspondent visits the ancient city of Harar as it celebrates its 1,010th anniversary.

For 1,000 years, this city on a hilltop has been a center of Islamic faith in the Horn of Africa, with a forbidding, 13-foot wall surrounding ancient mosques and serpentine alleyways. Now, Harar ...

Although the modern town slowly expanded outside the walls, Harar has preserved generally a harmonious appearance with nearly a hundred mosques. Old Harar is one of the few towns in Ethiopia that owe ...

Hyenas roam the streets of the ancient walled city of Harar in eastern Ethiopia every night, seeking scraps of meat to drag to the nearby caves.

Harar is largely defined by the "Jugol," the walled old city, which is so well preserved that it's often referred to as a living museum. Within this 3.5-square-kilometer space sit 82 mosques and ...