Although she is glad to see improvement, Humad still has concerns for the people in her village, a remote, windswept and tree-less rocky hilltop village called Guhom in Ethiopia’s arid northeast Afar ...

The Afar people do not make stone tools ... Of course, fossils from other places in Ethiopia and beyond also light up the human evolutionary road, often more brightly than those from the Middle ...

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It was difficult to know. The world’s poorest people travel from many distant lands to perish in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia, one of the hottest deserts on Earth. They walk into these terrible ...

Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974. The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw with teeth, as well as parts of the arm, leg, pelvis, spine and ribs—47 ...

40% of whom are women and 5% are people living with disabilities. Ethiopia’s Afar, Oromia and Somali regions’ local economy, and food and nutritional systems that are resilient, inclusive and able to ...

the Ethiopia permanent cessation of hostilities agreement between the government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People's Liberation ... Amhara Special Forces and Afar Special Forces and militias ...

capital of the Afar region. The UN is speaking to the government to establish why they were stopped. The war in Ethiopia has caused a massive humanitarian crisis, with more than five million in ...

Salt has been mined from the chain of salt lakes in the Danakil or Afar ... in Ethiopia. Gold measured by weight was employed by the merchants for large-scale transactions, but most people made ...

with a population of 113.6 million Amharic is regarded as Ethiopia's working language, but other languages spoken include Afaan Oromoo, Tigrinya, Somali and Afar.

There, and in neighbouring Afar region ... who speaks for the WFP in Ethiopia, said what was needed was not just food assistance but help to get people back to their farms so they can feed ...