As the Border 2 fire burns thousands of acres, some are currently in evacuation warning zones wondering if or when they need ...

Ethiopia 's Danakil Depression hosts some of the world's most intriguing and least-known traditional salt mines. For hundreds ...

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 ...

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 ...

A parliamentary oversight team has found that efforts to support citizens affected by earthquakes in Ethiopia's Afar region are insufficient, the House of People's Representatives reported on January ...

The report reveals that in Afar, many evacuees have been moved to designated sites, with 2,000 vulnerable households receiving emergency shelter kits and non-food items such as cooking sets and ...

Separately, Iraqi forces are being urged to rescue people from the minority Yazidi community who the militants may be holding as slaves. Tal Afar is one of the last urban strongholds held by IS in ...

Ethiopia's government said it is evacuating approximately 80,000 people following a series of small-scale earthquakes in the Afar, Oromia and Amhara regions. At least 10 earthquakes were reported ...