Learn how a 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia’s Afar region is reshaping scientists’ understanding of early ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...

The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

How the climate crisis is changing an ancient way of life in Ethiopia - ON THE GROUND: Families have been raising livestock in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia for centuries, but Nick Ferris f ...

In a new paper published in Nature , a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports the discovery of ...

At least 22 migrants have been killed and 65 others injured after a lorry they were travelling in overturned in Ethiopia's north-eastern Afar region, authorities say.

Active lava flows spilling out of the Erta Ale volcano in Afar, Ethiopia. The Afar Rift zone is one of the few examples on Earth where three tectonic rifts converge. Experts previously theorized this ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A long-dormant volcano erupted in northern Ethiopia over the weekend, sending ash plumes across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman. The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar region of ...

At least 22 Ethiopian migrants were killed and more than 60 were injured after a lorry they were travelling in overturned in ...