Ethiopia News » Afar News Ethiopia » Afar » Culture: 100,000-year-old burned bones at famed Afar Rift might be the oldest cremation on Earth
Archaeologists might have just discovered the world’s earliest known human cremation in the Afar ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Culture: Ethiopia's Afar Rift provides glimpse into life and death 100,000 years ago
The study of ancient cultures around Ethiopia during the Middle Stone Age (MSA) time period is important for understanding how some of the first Homo sapiens lived and eventually left Africa.
News Ethiopia » Afar » Culture: Ethiopia: Afar region the new front in the civil war as Tigray violence subsides
Her family are among the 300,000 people who have been displaced by an offensive launched in late December by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) into Afar, an arid region of stony deserts and ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Culture: Ravaged by war, Ethiopia’s Afar minority face lengthy recovery during peace
“There were no fighters. Everything was peaceful before we heard explosions,” says 26-year-old Mekiya Ali in an interview with Global Voices, describing the day in August last year, when her hometown ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Culture: Ethiopia Photograph Album
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection includes one photographic album containing 269 silver gelatin black and white prints (12 x 16 cm.) and dates from 1936-1941. The ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Culture: Thousands of Eritrean refugees displaced in clashes in Ethiopia's Afar region
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is working with the Ethiopian authorities and partners to provide emergency aid to thousands of Eritrean refugees who fled Barahle refugee camp and its environs in the ...