Lake Assal, Djibouti – From a distance ... hacking away at the ground and eking out a living from this desolate stretch of salt. Goubet Al-Kharab, referred to as the Island of the Devil ...

Living above a magma chamber is not without its hazards, and yet the Afar have done so for generations. Nomadic people from Djibouti ... feet below sea level, Lake Assal – or what remains ...

LAKE ASSAL, Djibouti ... The 100-mile trip across Djibouti can take days. Many migrants end up in the country’s capital, also named Djibouti, living in slums and working to earn money ...

LAKE ASSAL (Djibouti): The line of dromedaries shimmered in the dying evening heat as it followed a trade route used by the Afar nomads of the horn of Africa for hundreds of years. In the distance ...

Djibouti has opened the Port of Ghoubet with the main aim of making it a key terminal for salt exportation, with a capacity of five million tonnes, to the world from Lake Assal, one of the lowest ...