An Ethiopian boy finds rest and a good vantage point in an acacia tree.
Photograph by David Sacks/Getty Images
Ethiopia Features
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The Salt and the Earth
In Africa's Afar depression, pastoral tribes and salt traders survive amid a surreal landscape of fissures, faults, and a boiling lake of lava.
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Evolutionary Road
The Middle Awash, in the Afar desert of Ethiopia, is humanity’s hometown.
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Ethiopia’s Omo Valley
Ethiopia’s Omo Valley is still a place ruled by ritual and revenge. But change is coming, from upriver.
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Africa's Last Wolves
Why is the Ethiopian wolf the rarest canid on the planet?
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