For three days a cloud of billowing ash dimmed the sun as the region's largest ... thick layers of salt. This "white gold" has long been an important source of income for the Afar people, who ...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and First Lady Zinash Tayachew visited the Afar Region, where they toured key development projects ...

The documentary follows the journey of a camel caravan to the salt plains of the Afar Depression. Traditionally the caravans moved from Afar Depression to other parts of Ethiopia and to the Red ...

Locals have been harvesting the salt fields for centuries ... It's located in the Afar region in northern Ethiopia on the border with Eritrea and is only accessible by a very uncomfortable ...