Once made infamous through explorers’ tales of old, Ethiopia’s remote northeast Afar region both conforms to and contradicts stereotypes.

Among the deceased were a pregnant woman and two brothers, while at least four others sustained serious injuries, with two currently receiving treatment at Dubti General Hospital, located in Dubti ...

A devastating series of earthquakes in the Awash Fentale and Dulecha woredas of the Afar region has caused significant damage to a sugar estate employing over 4,000 workers. The disaster has forced ...

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Pastoralists are among the displaced due to the ongoing systemic activities in the Afar region (Photo: Addis Standard Source) Addis Abeba – Following a series of seismic activities in parts of Afar ...

With the formation of this ocean, Africa's map will be redrawn, and its ecosystem will undergo demographic changes.

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

Addis Abeba — Following the designation of the original evacuation sites--where households displaced by recent seismic activity in the Afar region had taken shelter--as "high-risk areas ...

It has a dry reputation. Tourists visits the Afar Triangle to find an extreme desert. But it is no Sahara. The region is large and is remarkably diverse. It has desert and shrubland, deep basins and ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.