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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The Vatican has said Francis would participate “in spiritual communion” with the rest of the hierarchy, from afar. In its early update Monday, the Vatican said Francis was resting after a ...

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.