38, No. 127, March 2011 The political economy of salt in the Afa... The political economy of salt in the Afar Regional State in northeast Ethiopia This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia-A political crisis in ... troops and military equipment to its border with Eritrea in the arid Afar region. And its state media is making loud claims over Assab.

Around 11 million years ago, a crack formed deep under the present Afar Depression, an area of north-east Ethiopia. The region sits on a hot, semisolid layer called the mantle.

Addis Ababa’s willingness to work with regional rivals in the Middle East shows its practical approach to foreign relations.

Now tensions within the region’s local leadership could drag Addis Ababa and Asmara into full-scale war ... Europe’s most immediate concern is to revert Ethiopia’s deployment in the Afar region, and ...

Ethiopia is endowed with significant natural resources and potential for developing geo-parks and geo-tourism, foreign ...

Deputy Prime Minister Temesgen Tiruneh has emphasized today the need for East African nations to take full ownership of their security and strengthen regional cooperation.

In a dusty, barren area in the Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia, about 140 miles northeast of Addis Ababa, lies a place that holds unique renown among paleontologists. Over the eons, seasonal rains have ...

Leaders of the separatist Oromo Liberation Army have said they plan an advance on Ethiopia's capital of Addis Ababa, the Somali ... Ethiopia's most densely populated region. China to see trade ...

A WFP spokesperson later added that those cut off were in various locations including the northern regions of Tigray and Afar, and that ... drought conditions to the region this year.

Nearly 7,000 miles south of Edinburgh is Addis Ababa, the capital city of a country called Ethiopia. Addis Ababa is at the base of an enormous mountain, Mount Entoto, which is much higher than the ...