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 ...
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 ...
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 ...