Around 11 million years ago, a crack formed deep under the present Afar Depression, an area of north-east Ethiopia. The region sits on a hot, semisolid layer called the mantle.

Ethiopia has also been moving tanks, troops and military equipment to its border with Eritrea in the arid Afar region. And its state media is making loud claims over Assab. The deployments are ...

Uncertainty clouds the continuity of the Pretoria Agreement, as disagreement between Ethiopia’s federal government and the ...

A 35-mile-long fissure is cutting through Ethiopia’s crust. Known as the East African Rift, it keeps spreading wider.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said funding and supply shortfalls mean lifesaving treatment for 650,000 malnourished ...

The earth shook below Zahab Mohammad’s feet while rocks began rolling down the foothills of the volcanic Mount Dofan, where she lived in Ethiopia’s northern Afar Region. After a 5.8-magnitude ...

38, No. 127, March 2011 The political economy of salt in the Afa... The political economy of salt in the Afar Regional State in northeast Ethiopia This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer ...

In February, Eritrea launched a nationwide mobilisation, with Ethiopia following suit in March; reports suggest that heavy weaponry and mechanised units are being stationed close to the border in the ...

More than 10 million people in Ethiopia are gravely short of food ... were in various locations including the northern regions of Tigray and Afar, and that the U.N. agency is actively seeking ...

Ethiopia’s Afar, Oromia and Somali regions’ local economy, and food and nutritional systems that are resilient, inclusive and able to thrive in the face of unpredictable climate and conflict shocks.

Border clashes between Ethiopia’s Afar and Somali regions have killed at least 100 people, a regional official said on Tuesday, the latest outbreak of violence ahead of national elections in June.

In the drought-stricken Afar region of north-eastern Ethiopia, water scarcity and loss of livelihoods are threatening the future of girls who are increasingly forced into child marriage.