A semi-desert plain that lies between two rugged mountains has, for about five months, been the epicenter of volcanic activity in Ethiopia's Afar region. From a distance, it looks serene and peaceful.

ADDIS ABABA, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Ethiopia launched a securities exchange on Friday, in what officials touted as a milestone in Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's drive to open up the country's tightly ...

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ADDIS ABABA — Evacuations were underway in Ethiopia Saturday after a series of earthquakes, the strongest of which, a 5.8-magnitude jolt, rocked the remote north of the Horn of Africa nation.

Thousands of civilians in a remote part of northeastern Ethiopia are being evacuated after potentially dangerous volcanic activity, officials said Friday. The evacuations come after steam ...

1 School of Journalism and Communication, Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2 Department of Media and Communication Studies, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam ...

Ethiopia’s government said it is evacuating approximately 80,000 people following a series of small-scale earthquakes in the Afar, Oromia and Amhara regions. At least 10 earthquakes were ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck Ethiopia, the U.S. Geological Survey and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (USGS) said on Saturday. The quake's epicentre was located 42km east of ...

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck northern Ethiopia Friday, where a volcano erupted after months of increased seismic activity, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) and local ...

"The score parallels and complements the tone of the play," says Desta "because I feel like a lot of Ethiopian music has that ancient quality and then jazz is that sort of contemporary spin." ...

Residents in northeastern Ethiopia have been moved to temporary shelters following fears of a potential volcanic eruption. Authorities have begun to evacuate residents in northeastern Ethiopia ...