This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was like a scene conjured by a Hollywood special effects shop. In September 2005 Afar herders in northern Ethiopia ...

It is not known who carried out the attack, but the Ethiopian government has launched an investigation, the BBC's Emmanuel Igunza reports. The Afar region, which straddles the border between ...

In September 2023, the International Commission of Experts on Ethiopia published its (final ... as well as Amhara, Afar and Oromia. As they reported, the identified violations include mass ...

Aisha Mohammed was named as Ethiopia's first female defence minister. She is from the country's Afar region in the north-east, and had served as construction minister. Muferiat Kamil, the former ...

The support includes laptops, printers, and scanners, to the Tigray, Somali, Amhara, and Afar regions of Ethiopia. US Ambassador to Ethiopia Ervin Massinga handed over the equipment to regional ...