This "white gold" has long been an important source of income for the Afar people, who remain fiercely loyal to this extreme land despite summer temperatures that can soar above 120 degrees ...

Authorities struggle to evacuate 80,000 people as the pastoralist communities in northeastern Ethiopia, the homeland of the ...

One can also perish from wild animal attack, snakebite, falling off a cliff, or in a shoot-out between one of the Afar clans and the Issa people across the Awash River to the east. But life is ...

They further call upon such organizations and "the global community to investigate the crime, visit the affected areas and take steps to stop repeated atrocities against the nomadic Afar people." ...