{"id":12009,"date":"2025-01-01T08:51:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T06:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/risk-of-ethiopian-volcanic-eruption-prompts-evacuation-of-residents\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:25:33","slug":"risk-of-ethiopian-volcanic-eruption-prompts-evacuation-of-residents","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/risk-of-ethiopian-volcanic-eruption-prompts-evacuation-of-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk of Ethiopian volcanic eruption prompts evacuation of residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopian Geological Institute posted a video on its\u00a0<em>Facebook<\/em>\u00a0page showing what appeared to be dust and smoke emerging from a volcano in Awash Fentale in Afar region.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fana Broadcasting<\/em>, citing a regional administrator in Afar, reported that authorities had evacuated residents out of the affected area, which is roughly 165 km from the capital Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p>Shiferaw Teklemariam, Commissioner of the Ethiopian Disaster Risk Management Commission, said it was too early to label the activity an eruption, but authorities were not taking chances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The community; some are already leaving those areas. We are also preparing to do it in a well organised manner. It (moving the community) will be done based on predictions,&#8221; he told\u00a0<em>Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The area experiencing volcanic activity has also been prone to earthquakes and tremors in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12010,"template":"default||default||default||default||default||default||default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-12009","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"A volcano in northeastern Ethiopia was showing signs of starting to erupt this Friday, prompting authorities to move residents to temporary shelters, a state-affiliated broadcaster and a government geological office said.||A volcano in northeastern Ethiopia was showing signs of starting to erupt this Friday, prompting authorities to move residents to temporary shelters, a state-affiliated broadcaster and a government geological office said.||A volcano in northeastern Ethiopia was showing signs of starting to erupt this Friday, prompting authorities to move residents to temporary shelters, a state-affiliated broadcaster and a government geological office said.||A volcano in northeastern Ethiopia was showing signs of starting to erupt this Friday, prompting authorities to move residents to temporary shelters, a state-affiliated broadcaster and a government geological office said.||A volcano in northeastern Ethiopia was showing signs of starting to erupt this Friday, prompting authorities to move residents to temporary shelters, a state-affiliated broadcaster and a government geological office said.||A volcano in northeastern Ethiopia was showing signs of starting to erupt this Friday, prompting authorities to move residents to temporary shelters, a state-affiliated broadcaster and a government geological office said.||A volcano in northeastern Ethiopia was showing signs of starting to erupt this Friday, prompting authorities to move residents to temporary shelters, a state-affiliated broadcaster and a government geological office said.||A volcano in northeastern Ethiopia was showing signs of starting to erupt this Friday, prompting authorities to move residents to temporary shelters, a state-affiliated broadcaster and a government geological office said.","published_date":"2025-01-03 00:00:00||2025-01-03 00:00:00||2025-01-03 00:00:00||2025-01-03 00:00:00||2025-01-03 00:00:00||2025-01-03 00:00:00||2025-01-03 00:00:00||2025-01-03 00:00:00","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17830,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12009\/revisions\/17830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}