More than a dozen smaller burps have shaken the area in the years since. East Africa's Afar depression is one of the world's most geologically hyperactive regions. Fly over it in an airplane—or ...

Could he be arrested if he returns? The ex-president is now leading a newly formed opposition coalition from abroad, raising questions over the motives behind his return to the political fray and what ...

"The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood in over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley and become a new ocean, and that part of East Africa will become its own separate small ...

What is Ethiopia's Afar region? Africa Live: More on this and other stories Five years ago, the Afar Revolutionary Democratic Front - the most prominent of the groups - claimed responsibility for ...

It said that the drivers, who were working for the World Food Programme (WFP), were detained in Semera, capital of the Afar region ... isn't reaching Tigray BBC AFRICA LIVE: Updates from the ...

The UNHCR expressed readiness to support the Ethiopian government to expand access to registration for Eritrean asylum-seekers, saying that registration is pivotal in providing access to basic ...