In September 2005 Afar herders in northern Ethiopia watched in amazement as ... faults and fissures opened along a 40-mile stretch of desert, swallowing unlucky livestock. More than a dozen ...
The Danakil ... the Afar region in northern Ethiopia on the border with Eritrea and is only accessible by a very uncomfortable trip spanning hundreds of kilometres across bumpy roads and desert ...
were collected in Ethiopia by Major Powell-Cotton while hunting and exploring the country in 1899. Salt has been mined from the chain of salt lakes in the Danakil or Afar Depression for hundreds ...