ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's army has retaken the town of Chifra in Afar region, the state-run broadcaster said on Sunday, its first major seizure from rebellious Tigrayan forces since Prime ...

Residents living near the long-dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano in northern Ethiopia recounted the moment it erupted on Sunday morning after 12,000 years of dormancy. The volcanic explosion, which they ...

A long-dormant volcano in northern Ethiopia has erupted, sending plumes of ash across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman. The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar region of Ethiopia, located about 800 ...

Although border towns between the Somali and Afar regions have been under dispute for a couple of decades, direct conflict and military engagement between the two regional forces became more common ...

“There were no fighters. Everything was peaceful before we heard explosions,” says 26-year-old Mekiya Ali in an interview with Global Voices, describing the day in August last year, when her hometown ...

Her family are among the 300,000 people who have been displaced by an offensive launched in late December by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) into Afar, an arid region of stony deserts and ...

Aicha Nur cradles her wounded son Tahir. They and another son were able to flee but her six other children remain unaccounted for - Copyright AFP/File Fabrice ...