This story appears in the July 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the Afar desert of Ethiopia, there are a lot of ways to die. There is disease, of course. One can also perish from ...

The Afar region is home to the East African Rift Valley, a massive crack in the Earth’s surface that stretches through Ethiopia and Kenya. In 2005, a 35-mile-long fissure opened in the Ethiopian ...

In September 2005 Afar herders in northern Ethiopia watched in amazement as ... faults and fissures opened along a 40-mile stretch of desert, swallowing unlucky livestock. More than a dozen ...

provided by the Ethiopian Disaster Risk Management Commission," OCHA stated. "In addition, 533 households in the Afar region remain without assistance due to resource shortages." Addis Standard ...

Addis Abeba — 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 ...