East Africa's Afar depression is one of the ... This "white gold" has long been an important source of income for the Afar people, who remain fiercely loyal to this extreme land despite summer ...

or in a shoot-out between one of the Afar clans and the Issa people across the Awash River to the east. But life is fragile all over Africa. What is special here is the occasional durability of ...

They further call upon such organizations and "the global community to investigate the crime, visit the affected areas and take steps to stop repeated atrocities against the nomadic Afar people." ...

In a previous report, the UN agency said that 6,780 families among those evacuated from Afar, where the largest number of displaced people are located, had received food aid. However, 2,250 families ...