"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will one day create a new ocean. This is the conclusion of an international team ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

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 civilians and looting.

The killing of five foreign tourists in north-west Ethiopia has again drawn international attention to one of the most remote and lawless parts of the world.

The Afar is named for the tribal people who inhabit the region northeast of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, and part of Africa's Great Rift Valley that extends south through Kenya as far as ...

As conflict in northern Ethiopia spreads into the Afar region amid lingering drought, some residents are appealing for help, saying they have nothing to eat and that their children are dying ...

Beneath Ethiopia’s Afar region, researchers have found periodic pulses of molten mantle rock that someday could split Africa in two and form a new sea.

That will take place over millions of years, as the tectonic plates are ripped apart at rift zones like those in the Afar region in Ethiopia. That is where scientists found the evidence of the ...

Ethiopian federal authorities are dismissing a claim by Tigrayan rebels that their forces have pulled out of the neighboring Afar region. A spokesman for the Tigray People's Liberation Front this ...

A new front in Ethiopia's war in the Afar region is imperilling efforts to get enemies to sit down to peace talks, three regional officials and three diplomats said, and a ceasefire declared last ...