Ethiopian volcano erupts after 12,000-year dormancy
A remote volcano in Ethiopia’s scorched Afar region roared back to life on Sunday, ending more than 12,000 years of silence in a spectacular eruption that blanketed villages in ash and sent towering plumes drifting across the Red Sea. Hayli Gubbi, a little-known shield volcano roughly 800 kilometres northeast of the capital Addis Ababa, began…