The new designation of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Ethiopia will also come with the relocation of the more than 20,000 people living inside Bale Mountains National Park, say park officials. Home ...

Ever seen a place that looks like another planet? Welcome to the Danakil Depression, one of the hottest, driest, and most ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Trucks and excavators are going onto the site of the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash, causing concern that vital evidence may be lost or crushed, two diplomatic sources said on ...

Moshe Biton and Ilan Matsliah had never set eyes on one another before March 10. But in just two weeks, the men have formed a strong bond after being thrust together in the worst possible ...

On 12 December, residents of Lalibela, a town in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, reported that Tigrayan rebels had retaken control from the Ethiopian government, who had taken the heritage site from ...

The monument known as Māryām Nāzrēt in Ethiopia, near the city of Mekelle, has often been visited but has hitherto remained hermetic. A fresh investigation has identified the main monument as a ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 21 February 2003 In ...

A major fire has burned more than 1,000 hectares (nearly 2,500 acres) of grassland in the Guassa Community Conservation Area in Ethiopia’s central highlands. The area is among the oldest examples of ...

Wind, water and predators scoured the African bush with a cruel efficiency long before the first scientists arrived. They didn't leave much — a cracked molar here, a flake of thighbone there. So when ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, continues to register new refugee arrivals at the Sudanese-Ethiopian border. Some 800 people crossed from Ethiopia’s Tigray region into eastern Sudan in just the first ...