Monte Dhamali is a striking black volcano in Ethiopia near the border with Djibouti. There seem to be marshes and salt flats in the area, and a strange tan mushroom formation on its southwest slope:

Satellite Image of Dhamali

Here are some recent pictures of Ethiopians:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/africa_ethiopia0s_remote_people/html/9.stm

The following site has photos of Ethiopia and everyplace else on earth, searchable by coordinates:

http://www.traveljournals.net/pictures/ethiopia/

The de facto national language of Ethiopia is Amharic. It's related to Aramaic and has a funky alphabet which you've seen if you've even been to an ethiopian restaurant (highly recommended).

There is a good article on Amharic here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amharic_language

I was unable to view the language since I didn't have an ethiopian font installed. But the above article had a link to one at:

ftp://ftp.ethiopic.org/pub/fonts/TrueType/gfzemenu.ttf

I downloaded it and double clicked on it. Font Book opened up. I pressed 'install font'. And the characters on the web page instantly appeared! I didn't have to reboot or even restart Safari. Go Apple.