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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ethiopians holding national flags protest against what they say is interference by outsiders in the country's internal affairs and ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » History: 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 » History: Ethiopia’s Afar region says under attack from Tigrayan forces
Rebels in the northern Tigray region fought a devastating civil war against the central government from 2020 to 2022 in which an estimated 600,000 people died, and relations with the capital and other ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » History: Fighting in Ethiopia's Afar region displaces 300,000, aid blocked to Tigray
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 8 (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 Tigrayan forces of killing ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » History: Ethiopia: Afar nationalists see opportunity in Abiy’s tensions with Eritrea
At the centre of the escalating hostility between Ethiopia and Eritrea lies Assab, a highly strategic port on the Red Sea coast. Assab has been part of Eritrea since the country seceded from Ethiopia ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » History: Ethiopia's Afar Region Urges Civilians to Fight Tigray Rebels
Ethiopia's Afar region called on civilians Friday to take up arms against rebels from neighboring Tigray, signaling a potential escalation in fighting that has already displaced tens of thousands this ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » History: How history and geography anchor Ethiopia's push for the sea
With analysis from Pulse of Africa (POA) Sept. 2, 2026 (ENA) By Mahder Nesibu In a session with senior government leaders in 2023, Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, stated that his country's ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » History: Ethiopia: Livestock Deaths and Water Scarcity Devastate Afar's Kori Woreda As El Niño Threat Grows
Addis Abeba — A severe water and livelihood crisis is unfolding in Kori Woreda of Ethiopia's Afar Region, where residents report widespread livestock deaths, drying water sources and mounting pressure ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » History: Op-Ed: Ethiopia’s hidden SEDEX deposit — part of Africa’s next great basin?
Sedimentary exhalative deposits, better known as SEDEX deposits, work much the same way. Take away the boardrooms, the capital expenditure projections, the political hype and the mining cycles, and ...