Ethiopian Investment Holdings (EIH) has secured a massive potash mining site in the Afar Regional State, bolstering plans to ...

Inside the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia's Danakil desert, camel caravans are used to carry salt. For centuries, the essential mineral has been mined by the Afar people, known for their ability to ...

THE kidnap of a group of five Europeans (three Britons, a British-Italian woman and a French woman), along with a dozen Ethiopian guides and helpers, has highlighted one of the harshest parts of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Fourteen new K/Ar and fission-track ages obtained on volcanic rocks from the Danakil depression are presented. Together with previous data, ...

The salt merchant did his best to dissuade me. “You don’t want to go there,” he said. “It’s hotter than hell, and they’re quite likely to chop your testicles off.” In the market in Mekele, in the ...