The Ethiopian Embassy in Nairobi has issued an apology and clarification after publishing, and later deleting, a statement on its official page regarding the establishment of a new administrative ...

Just a handful of ancient teeth uncovered in Ethiopia is rewriting what we know about human origins. The fossils, dated ...

Ethiopian fossils uncover new species in human lineage as researchers discover Australopithecus teeth coexisting with early ...

A new human species has been identified from 2.65-million-year-old fossils found in Ethiopia, reshaping views on our ...

The find suggests that as many as four different hominin lineages lived in eastern Africa between 2.5 million and 3 million ...

From Ethiopia comes an incredible discovery—early humans seem to have potentially lived alongside the very apes they evolved ...

The Afar People's Party (APP) has strongly condemned a recent decision by the Somali Regional Council to approve 14 new woredas (districts) and 4 new zones, alleging that the move constitutes a ...

The hot layer between the Earth’s crust and mantle is not static in the Afar region of Ethiopia but is surging rhythmically upwards. A study in Nature Geoscience 1 by researchers from 10 ...

A spot in eastern Africa called the Afar Triangle marks the meeting point of three rift zones—lines where Earth’s crust is being rent apart. Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives ...

Discover how mantle upwellings beneath Africa could lead to a new ocean, as revealed by a study on tectonic plate interactions in the Afar region.

While it was suspected that a mantle plume lies underneath the Afar region, little was known about its characteristics.

Scientists have discovered rhythmic pulses of molten mantle beneath Africa's Afar region, suggesting deep Earth processes are driving the continent's slow breakup and the formation of a new ocean ...