The East African Rift System is a 4,000-mile-long, 22-million-year-old zone that extends from Jordan to Mozambique. And it's been increasingly active in the past two decades, leading to speculation ...

Scientists using GPS and satellite mapping to track how the tectonic plates underlying Africa are separating, specifically in the region known at Afar, which includes northern Ethiopia ...

Delta and United have unveiled new flights to West and northern Africa. These are the new routes—and we've shared what to do ...

More than a dozen smaller burps have shaken the area in the years since. East Africa's Afar depression is one of the world's most geologically hyperactive regions. Fly over it in an airplane—or ...

Tigray Defence Forces have seized control of several major towns in the region, laying bare the fragility of a truce with the ...

Tensions were rising between rival factions in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray on Thursday, as France warned against ...

"Over the past few weeks, several earthquakes originating from the Great Rift Valley have been recorded in Ethiopia, mainly affecting the Afar region and the Awash Fentale district. Tremors were also ...

A Roxbury bookstore located in Nubian Square was named among 13 Black-owned bookstores across the United States as one of the best, according to a travel website.

A volcanic eruption has struck Ethiopia's central Mount Dofan, a region that has recently experienced frequent minor tremors, according to local media reports on Friday. The tremors in the Awash ...