He points left to face the closest mountain range and says that the mountains are in Ethiopia. |
More than 30,000 people are reported to have died and nearly 400,000 civilians sought refuge across the border in Ethiopia. |
The Afars are mostly nomadic pastoralists whose grazing area extends from eastern and southern Eritrea into Ethiopia. |
Last November, the teenager visited the Awassa region of Ethiopia on a week-long aid trip. |
The idea originated with the Pope's blessing of Mussolini's troops on their way to conquer Ethiopia, Rastafari's spiritual homeland. |
The Rastafarian religion inspired by Emperor Haile Selassie is what brought American Gladstone Robinson to Ethiopia 40 years ago. |