Editor's note: China Daily presents the series Friends Afar to tell the stories of people-to-people exchanges between ... he ...

East Africa's Afar depression is one of the ... This "white gold" has long been an important source of income for the Afar people, who remain fiercely loyal to this extreme land despite summer ...

or in a shoot-out between one of the Afar clans and the Issa people across the Awash River to the east. But life is fragile all over Africa. What is special here is the occasional durability of ...