These images are from Elizabeth Gilbert's book, Tribes of the Great Rift Valley. The Afar people are also known as the Danakil, so named for the desolate desert triangle where they live, between ...

Here’s a list of five reputable deserts in Africa. 1 Sahara Desert ... Its size is compared to the entire United States consisting of nomadic tribes, lost cities and shifting sands.

The entire human race outside Africa owes its existence to the survival of a single tribe of around 200 people who crossed the Red Sea 70,000 years ago, scientists have discovered.

Tripoli - A fierce gun battle between two tribes in Libya's remote south-eastern desert has killed at least 17 people in the past two days and wounded another 22, tribal sources told reporters on ...

NOVA: How did you come to hear about the Lemba and their story? Parfitt: I first heard about the Lemba when I was in South Africa. I had been asked to give a lecture there on the Ethiopian Jews ...