Hayli Gubbi, which rises to 500 metres (1,640 feet), is the southernmost volcano of the Erta Ale Range, a chain of low-lying ...

ASAITA, Ethiopia, Feb. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sultan of Afar Ahmed Alimirah issued a condemnation of the Republic of Djibouti's security forces after a drone strike killed eleven villagers in ...

The Djiboutian Human Rights League (LDDH) has denounced the police for waging "a coordinated attack" against civilians that left several people dead in early August, according to a report seen by AFP ...

The Sultanate of Afar, led by Sultan Ahmed Alimirah Hanfare, has condemned the 30 January 2025 drone strike by Djibouti's security forces, calling it a "heinous and indiscriminate" attack that ...

More than eight people were killed, and several others injured in a drone attack on 30 January 2025 in Afar Regional State, near the Ethiopia-Djibouti border, according to sources who spoke with Addis ...

Scientists are observing a new ocean forming in Africa's Afar region, a unique geological hotspot. Early magnetic surveys from 1968, combined with recent data from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, reveal ...

Lake Assal (Lac Assal), a world-renowned crater lake in the center of the country, is 10 times saltier than the sea. This makes it the second saltiest body of water in the world after Don Juan Pond in ...

Ethiopia’s Afar region has witnessed for the first time in recorded history the eruption of long-dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano, ...