Ethiopia is grappling with an escalating seismic crisis as a series of earthquakes linked to the East African Rift raises ...

Annual precipitation is heaviest in the southwest, scant in the Great Rift Valley and the Ogaden, and negligible in the Denakil Depression. More about the >Geography of Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is often regarded as the oldest country in Africa, with a history that stretches back at least 160,000 years, if not ...

Tanzania and some parts of Ethiopia would form a new continent – called ‘the Nubian continent’ – separated by the world’s sixth ocean. ‘What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would ...

Earthquakes are common in Ethiopia due to its location along the Great Rift Valley, one of the world's most seismically active areas. Experts have said the tremors and eruptions are being caused ...

As of 26 January, the earthquakes in Awash Fentale were still ongoing, though their intensity appears to be declining, says Derek Boswell Keir, a professor of tectonics at the University of Firenze in ...

Homes thatched with stolen grass were burned. Small farms hug the slopes of the Great Rift Valley and cover much of the Ethiopian Highlands, fragmenting geladas’ native grasslands. Many ...