East Africa's Afar depression is one of the ... 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 ...

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 fragile all over Africa. What is special here is the occasional durability of ...

The European Union (EU) has announced a €200,000 allocation in humanitarian aid to address the urgent needs of communities affected by recent earthquakes in the Afar, Amhara, and Oromia regions.

Following the designation of the original evacuation sites--where households displaced by recent seismic activity in the Afar ...

In a previous report, the UN agency said that 6,780 families among those evacuated from Afar, where the largest number of displaced people are located, had received food aid. However, 2,250 families ...

A semi-desert plain that lies between two rugged mountains has, for about five months, been the epicenter of volcanic activity in Ethiopia's Afar region. From a distance, it looks serene and peaceful.