A 35-mile-long fissure in East Africa signals the continents gradual separation, leading to the formation of a new ocean in ...

Over millions of years, the African continent will cleave in two, and scientists say a new ocean will one day fill the gap.

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

Pastoralists displaced by recurring earthquakes in the Awash Fentale district of the Afar region and sheltering at the Daido site in Amibara district have refused government attempts to relocate them, ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an ...

Explosive confessions from an Eritrean recruit, captured by Yemen’s National Resistance forces, have unmasked an alleged ...

After Albert’s explanation of Afar’s volcanic and tectonic past, I will look into this region’s Holocene volcanism, and try to create the first comprehensive volcanic history of this very ...

On 3 April, IOG, who is standing for a fifth term this Friday, announced his intention of exploiting the waters of the Awash River, which flows for its entire length within Ethiopia. The river ...

Once made infamous through explorers’ tales of old, Ethiopia’s remote northeast Afar region both conforms to and contradicts stereotypes.