The Danakil Depression, situated in a desert stretch ... used as currency until the previous century. It's located in the Afar region in northern Ethiopia on the border with Eritrea and is only ...

Salt has been mined from the chain of salt lakes in the Danakil or Afar Depression for hundreds of years. An Egyptian traveller in the 6th century first made reference to it but it is probably ...

This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was like a scene conjured by a Hollywood special effects shop. In September 2005 Afar herders in northern Ethiopia ...