Living above a magma chamber is not without its hazards, and yet the Afar have done so for generations. Nomadic people from Djibouti, they have made the unforgiving landscapes at the northern reaches ...

ASAITA, Ethiopia, Feb. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sultan of Afar Ahmed Alimirah issued a condemnation of the Republic of Djibouti's security forces after a drone strike killed eleven villagers in ...

DJIBOUTI, 14 May (IRIN) - The Djibouti government and the radical wing of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Peace (FRUD) signed an agreement on Saturday, 12 May, which observers say aims to ...

The Sultanate of Afar, led by Sultan Ahmed Alimirah Hanfare, has condemned the 30 January 2025 drone strike by Djibouti's security forces, calling it a "heinous and indiscriminate" attack that ...

Lake Assal (Lac Assal), a world-renowned crater lake in the center of the country, is 10 times saltier than the sea. This makes it the second saltiest body of water in the world after Don Juan Pond in ...

For a moment, as a superheated desert wind scorches across my face, I share Charlton Heston's vision of purgatory. In the final scene from the 1968 cult film Planet of the Apes, Heston encountered a ...

Lying on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the tiny African nation of Djibouti serves as a gateway to the Suez Canal, one of the world's busiest shipping routes. Its port is the lifeblood of its economy, ...

Lying on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the tiny African nation of Djibouti serves as a gateway to the Suez Canal, one of the world's busiest shipping routes. Its port is the lifeblood of its economy, ...