Inside the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia's Danakil desert, camel caravans are used to carry salt. For centuries, the essential mineral has been mined by the Afar people, known for their ability to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Paul Schemm, The Washington Post We stumbled along in the darkness, the path a lighter gray amid the deep charcoal of the dried lava fields surrounding us ...

The salt merchant did his best to dissuade me. “You don’t want to go there,” he said. “It’s hotter than hell, and they’re quite likely to chop your testicles off.” In the market in Mekele, in the ...

Her family are among the 300,000 people who have been displaced by an offensive launched in late December by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) into Afar, an arid region of stony deserts and ...