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 ...

Traditionally the caravans moved from Afar Depression to other parts of Ethiopia and to the Red Sea coastal regions of modern-day Eritrea and Djibouti. For centuries the control, trade and ...

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 ...