Ethiopians holding national flags protest against what they say is interference by outsiders in the country's internal affairs and against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) [File: October 22 ...

Learn how a 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia’s Afar region is reshaping scientists’ understanding of early ...

A research team led by Zeresenay Alemseged, a researcher at the University of Chicago in the United States, discovered 2.6 ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Scientists at the University of Southampton found evidence that waves of hot, melted rock are rising up from deep below ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

Ethiopia's Afar region has said it came under attack from the forces of neighbouring Tigray, accusing it of seizing control of villages and bombing civilians, in the latest sign of internal conflict ...

The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A long-dormant volcano erupted in northern Ethiopia over the weekend, sending ash plumes across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman. The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar region of ...