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 ...

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 swarm of earth tremors and fears of volcanic eruptions in January forced tens of thousands of people to move away from ...

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.