Earthquakes are common in Ethiopia due to its location along the Great Rift Valley, one of the world's most seismically active areas. Experts have said the tremors and eruptions are being caused ...

Homes thatched with stolen grass were burned. Small farms hug the slopes of the Great Rift Valley and cover much of the Ethiopian Highlands, fragmenting geladas’ native grasslands. Many ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

Seismic upheaval in the Awash Fentale area has uprooted thousands from their homes. It has also raised questions about the ...

Earthquakes are common in Ethiopia due to its location along the Great Rift Valley, one of the world's most seismically active areas. Experts have said the tremors and eruptions are being caused ...

Annual precipitation is heaviest in the southwest, scant in the Great Rift Valley and the Ogaden, and negligible in the Denakil Depression. More about the >Geography of Ethiopia.

Starting in humanity’s birthplace in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa ... The trails scuffed through the Ethiopian desert are possibly the oldest human marks in the world.

A journey of 38,000-kilometers begins with a single step. 12 years ago this month, journalist Paul Salopek set off on a journey that follows the first human migration out of Africa, starting in the ...

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...