It is not known who carried out the attack, but the Ethiopian government has launched an investigation, the BBC's Emmanuel Igunza reports. The Afar region, which straddles the border between ...

In September 2005 Afar herders in northern Ethiopia watched in amazement as ... The Afar depression and the entire Great Rift Valley will cradle a new sea that connects the Red Sea to the Indian ...

In tens of millions of years, hundreds of miles of this rift could be covered in water, this ocean has already been named the Afar. Importance: Witnessing the birth of a new ocean. Dive category ...

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...