Following the designation of the original evacuation sites--where households displaced by recent seismic activity in the Afar region had taken shelter--as "high-risk areas," evacuees are set to be ...

East Africa's Afar depression is one of the ... This "white gold" has long been an important source of income for the Afar people, who remain fiercely loyal to this extreme land despite summer ...

or in a shoot-out between one of the Afar clans and the Issa people across the Awash River to the east. But life is fragile all over Africa. What is special here is the occasional durability of ...

In a previous report, the UN agency said that 6,780 families among those evacuated from Afar, where the largest number of displaced people are located, had received food aid. However, 2,250 families ...

A parliamentary oversight team has found that efforts to support citizens affected by earthquakes in Ethiopia's Afar region are insufficient, the House of People's Representatives reported on1, 2025.

Ethiopia’s government said it is evacuating approximately 80,000 people following a series of small-scale earthquakes in the Afar ... she told VOA’s Horn of Africa Service.