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Jabal al-Lawz
In early October Phil Roberts and I went
to Tabuk for the weekend to look at Jabal al-Lawz. This is a mountain located
in northwest Saudi Arabia, near the Jordan border, above the Gulf of Aqaba at
2580 metres above sea level. It is Saudi Arabia’s second highest mountain after
Jebal Soudah near Abha in the southwest of the Kingdom. Its name means the mountain
of almonds, but I certainly did not see any almonds or virtually any other
vegetation excepting a few Juniper trees. Geologically it is a light-colored,
calc-alkaline granite that is intruded by rhyolite and andesite dikes, which
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Fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has led to massive waves of refugees fleeing the country (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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Up to two million Ethiopians are facing starvation amid intense fighting between the government and rebel groups in the northern part of that country. Fighting increased last week in the Tigray region, spurring reports of a bloody massacre at a church in the Ethiopian city of Aksum that killed over 700 people.
For more than 2,000 years, Ethiopians have believed their country holds one of the most sacred relics in all of Judeo-Christian history – the Ark of the Covenant. In the city of Aksum, a special church known as the Church of St. Mary of Zion is where the ark is said to have rested for hundreds of years. Adventurer and Historian Bob Cornuke has explored the region extensively.