In the scorching deserts of East Africa, the ground is slowly tearing itself apart — a slow-motion, geological drama. Over ...

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

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 06:23:05 GMT ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The government of Ethiopia's Afar region says more than 300,000 people have been displaced by warfare there since December and it accused ...

Ethiopia is evacuating thousands from the Afar region due to potential volcanic activity at Mount Dofen, which has shown steam eruptions since Thursday, January 2. The long-dormant volcano’s ...

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.

Addis Abeba — The Command Post in the Afar Region has reported that more than 58,000 people, including 4,000 Kesem Sugar Factory workers, have entered temporary shelters and are receiving ...

For three days a cloud of billowing ash dimmed the sun as the region's largest volcano, Erta Ale—"smoking mountain" in the Afar language—erupted. What set off these startling events?

Eight civilians have been killed in the Afar Regional State as the Djiboutian government reportedly carried out a drone ...

Atalay Ayele, head of the Seismology Department and a professor of seismic science at Addis Ababa University, says the epicenter was in the middle of Dofen Mountain, Awash Fentale district, in the ...

The earthquakes have damaged houses and threatened to trigger a volcanic eruption of the previously dormant Mount Dofan, near Segento in the northeast Afar region. The crater has stopped releasing ...