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	Infotrieve Online
		We have demonstrated that basing ANC sero-surveillance in urban areas of Afar Region over-samples urban residents of Amhara ethnicity and yields a major over-estimation of overall HIV-1 prevalence for the Region.
		According to the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2000, only 4.5% of the population of Afar Region is of Amhara ethnicity, and 7.8% urban residents.
		We planned an unlinked anonymous sero-survey which included data on basic population characteristics to investigate whether sero-surveillance data from ANCs in Afar Region might be taken to represent the situation among the general population of the Region.
	www4.infotrieve.com /newmedline/detail.asp?NameID=15227880&Session=&searchQuery=HIV+Seroprevalence&count=2739 (354 words)

	Somalis in Ethiopia
		A similar pattern was established in the Afar and Somali-residing Ogaden region for large-scale government-run agribusiness schemes.
		The health service bureau of Afar region says there has been a rise in health service in the region due to an increase in the number of health professionals and institutions over the past four years.
		Haile Selassie then successfully deflected ethnic sentiments for self-determination of the Oromos, Somalis, and Afar and reconsolidated his authority.
	www.ogadennews.com /latest.html (6647 words)

	Afar Pastoralists Face Consequences of Poor Rains, 04/00
		The Afar people who were watering their animals at one of the hand-dug wells confirmed the seriousness of the situation in the arid lowlands of the north-western part of Afar Region (see picture in annexe 2).
		Afar pastoralists living in Zone 5 of Afar Region are used to settle in `Chefa' valley for part of the year.
		Core cause for migration of both Afars and Oromos is the absence of rains (belg for the highlands of Amhara and dadaa and sugum for the Afar lowlands) and hence the partial or total absence of pasture.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Hornet/afar0905.html (6656 words)

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		Afar region — where aid organisations first warned of the current drought emergency which has now affected 11 million people— is gradually emerging from the crisis.
		ADDIS ABABA, 18 Mar 2003 (IRIN) - The food crisis in Afar - one of Ethiopia’s hardest hit regions - is improving, according to the UN’s Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (EUE).
		Tens of thousands of livestock are believed to have died during the drought which hit the remote and inhospitable region in northeastern Ethiopia, home to the nomadic Afar.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=32886 (373 words)

	Afar Region, Ethiopia
		The Afar region is bounded by topographic and structural highs (darker brown).
		Geologic features of the Afar region (light brown).
		Erta Ale, one of the world's most active volcanoes, is at the apex of the Afar triangle.
	volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/volc_images/img_afar_region.html (37 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Afar Depression, Ethiopia
		In eastern Africa, in the Afar region of Ethiopia, a nearly barren rockscape marks the location of the meeting place of three separate pieces of the Earth’s crust.
		Besides its unusual geology, the Afar region is famous for its fossils.
		This meeting place is known to geologists as the Afar Triple Junction; the central meeting place for the three pieces of Earth’s crust is around Lake Abbe, just to the south of the area shown in this image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17023 (339 words)

	Afar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Afar peoples live primarily in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, eastern Eritrea, and
		The Afar language is spoken in the district.
		Danakil depression, the lowest point in Ethiopia and one of the lowest in Africa, is found in the north of the region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afar (339 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Afar Region: A deeper crisis looms
		Afar Region is one of the poorest and least developed Regions of Ethiopia, neglected by national development efforts.
		ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Afar Region: A deeper crisis looms
		Historically, the Afar and the Oromo of the western escarpment have grazed in each other's land, i e., the Oromo in the lowlands during the wet season and the Afar on the escarpment in the dry season.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/vCEF/A55845B9746369CBC1256C7500413A66 (4907 words)

	FMO Research Guide:
		In June 2003, archeologists found Homo Sapiens skulls in the Herto village of the Afar Region that is estimated to be between 154,000 to 160,000 years old.
		The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE), which came into existence in May 1991, has a parliamentarian form of government and comprises nine regional states (Afar, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Gambella, Harar, Oromiya, Somali, Tigray, and SNNP) and two administrative cities (Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa).
		The federal government resides in the capital city of Addis Ababa, administratively known as Region 14.
	www.forcedmigration.org /guides/fmo033/fmo033-3.htm (2289 words)

	News in english
		Update of the Critical, Looming Drought and Displacement Disaster in Afar Region and Appeal for Practical Assistance, APDA, January 13th 2005
		Earlier reports on the situation in the Afar Region
		A site with info about the HIV/AIDS situation among afar people in Eritrea.
	www.afarfriends.org /news_english.htm (2289 words)

	Iraq: US military lays waste to Tal Afar
		To the extent there are “foreign fighters” in Tal Afar, they are men from across the region, fighting in an Arab country against Washington’s attempt to place Iraq under long-term American domination.
		The assault on Tal Afar is part of a broader offensive by the US military and the Baghdad government to suppress the widespread opposition to both the presence of US troops in the country and the draft constitution that is to be voted on at a referendum on October 15.
		Tal Afar is an indication of the methods being unleashed to prevent such an outcome.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/sep2005/iraq-s13.shtml (1400 words)

	UN EUE: Report on Afar Region of Ethiopia, January 1996
		Afar traditional leadership has historically been located in eight sultanates, the three most significant being those of Tadjourah (the most senior), Rahayta, and Awssa (the fiefdom of Ethiopian Sultan Ali Mirrah, which includes the regional capital of 'Aysa'ita).
		Although divisions partially reflect clan and regional differences, there is a general sense that the "'Aysa'ita government," whoever controls it, is unaware of and unresponsive to the needs of the Afar people at large.
		Whether or not the Afar people seize this moment to define their future in terms of their own priorities, needs and aspirations, or shackle themselves instead to alien and outmoded concepts of "development" is a matter for Afars alone to choose.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Hornet/uneue_afar.html (6175 words)

	Is the US military preparing another massacre in Tal Afar?
		As well as inflaming northern Iraq, the attack on Tal Afar risks further destabilising the surrounding region.
		Thousands more Tal Afar residents, however, are trapped inside Sarai by the cordon of tanks and barbed wire that has been flung up around the district to prevent resistance fighters escaping.
		In September 2004, the US military carried out a major operation to impose its authority over Tal Afar, but was forced to withdraw by November in order to redeploy troops to the heavy fighting in Fallujah and Mosul.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/sep2005/iraq-s08.shtml (1515 words)

	synergy-III
		The offensive in Tal Afar is especially delicate because of the tangle of ethnic sensitivities in the region.
		The offensive in Tal Afar, 418km northwest of Baghdad, is delicate because of the tangle of ethnic sensitivities.
		Tal Afar is 65 kilometers (40 miles) from the Syrian border and it is thought to be a hide-out and base for foreign fighters infiltrating the Iraqi-Syrian border.
	synergy-iii.blogspot.com (18413 words)

	Afar Reference,
		Afar, one of the Lowland East Cushitic Languages is spoken in the desert region of Southern Eritrea, in Djibouti and in neighbouring parts of Ethiopia.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Afar.htm (48 words)

	Encyclopedia: Afar
		Afar peoples live primarily in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, eastern Eritrea, and Djibouti, but as they are traditionally nomadic herders, they may be found further afield.
		Afar is one of the nine ethnic divisions (kililoch) of Ethiopia.
		Afar was the site of the discovery of "Lucy", the Australopithecus afarensis skeletal remains, by Donald Johanson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Afar (1078 words)

	Where mountain meets ocean, see it all at Ilocos!
		The region has fantastic waves that beckon surfers from counties afar, they are created by the fearsome South China Sea in conjunction with with some mighty strong currents.
		Ilocos Norte Region also has on eof the most rugged and harsh coastlines in the Ilocos Region, not to mention the whole of the Philippines.
		La Union is known as the gateway to the Ilocos Regions, being so placed it became the business district, with government and facilities for education becoming prominant.
	www.philippines-travel-guide.com /ilocos.html (1078 words)

	People
		Afar is also spoken across the border in Ethiopia's Afar administrative region and in Djibouti (the Republic of Afar and Isa) as well.
		The language of the Afar is sometimes referred in the literature as Dankali, but this is a name given by the neighbors.
		Afar is a language of the Afar people.
	www.dekebat-eritra.com /SEITE25.HTM (1078 words)

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		Afar region in Ethiopia is one of the most impoverished areas in one of the world’s poorest countries.
		Afar National Regional Government and the Federal Government as well.
		At present, the Afar consider their life is at stake because much of the land that used to serve as grazing land is now either engulfed with swamps/marsh or has become non-productive because of insufficient flooding from Awash river.
	www.afarfriends.org /conf-04_compilation.htm (1078 words)

	UN EUE: Report on Afar Region of Ethiopia, January 1996
		Although divisions partially reflect clan and regional differences, there is a general sense that the "'Aysa'ita government," whoever controls it, is unaware of and unresponsive to the needs of the Afar people at large.
		Whether or not the Afar people seize this moment to define their future in terms of their own priorities, needs and aspirations, or shackle themselves instead to alien and outmoded concepts of "development" is a matter for Afars alone to choose.
		Today, as Ethiopia's Afar population is consolidated for the first time within a single province with autonomous powers of self- government, change that benefits the majority of the Afars is far from assured.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Hornet/uneue_afar.html (1078 words)

	UNDP-EUE: Situation of Displaced People in Afar Region Remains Sketchy, 03/99
		Given the socio-economic background of the predominantly nomadic Afar Region, this is clearly an exercise that is particularly difficult.
		According to the regional DPPB in Asayita, the increase over the figure of 27,720 given in the February Afar Regional Contingency Plan[4] was due to an additional episode of displacement which took place in March.
		In February 1999, the government of the Regional State of Afar issued a "Contingency Plan for the Displaced People".
	www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Hornet/Afar0399.html (3781 words)

	Somali Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The region borders Kenya to the south-west, the Ethopian regions of Oromia, Afar and Dire Dawa to the west, Djibouti to the north and Somalia/ Somaliland to the north, east and south.
		The region has a very high Somali population, and it has been claimed by Somalia in the past as part of the idea of a Greater Somalia.
		Formerly known as Region 5, the capital of Somali is Jijiga.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Somali_Region,_Ethiopia (3781 words)

	African Languages by Countries
		Eight national languages, Soussou (Susu, in coastal Guinea), Peulh (Fulani, in Northrn Guinea), Maninka (Upper Guinea), Kissi (Kissidougou Region), Toma and Guerze (Kpelle) in rain forest Guinea; plus various ethnic groups with their own language.
		Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo is the most widespread).
		Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/african_languages.htm (3781 words)

	Map Zones : Djibouti Map
		This region includes parts of several former as well as extant Afar sultanates.
		The capital, principal port, and only sizable city is Djibouti, located on the southern side of the mouth of the Gulf of Tadjoura.Roughly 60% of Djiboutians are ethnic Somali, the predominant group in the south, and about 30% are Afar, the main group in the north.
		Almost all Djiboutians are Sunni Muslims.The Afar speak a language that forms a dialect continuum with Saho.
	kids.mapzones.com /world/djibouti (3781 words)

	WFP Emergency Report - 10: 07-Mar-03
		This is seen as promising for crop production in Belg dependent areas in the north-eastern highlands and for pasture and water regeneration for pastoralists in hard hit Afar Region.
		In Adi Quala sub region in Debub, water points have dried up and people are walking two hours in search of alternative sources.
		The latter region is presently experiencing the jilaal or long dry season and depends on these rains (gu rains) to alleviate dry conditions.
	www.cidi.org /humanitarian/wfp/03a/ixl8.html (3781 words)

	FAO/GIEWS: Africa Report No.2, August 1998 Page 4
		It is estimated that over 50 000 people have been displaced by hostilities in the southern Afar region, putting additional strain on the fragile food supply situation of the host communities.
		In the Great Lakes region, despite continuing insecurity and population displacements in parts, food production is steadily recovering, with production currently approaching the pre-crisis levels of the early 1990s.
		About 400 000 people, almost 80 percent of the capital’s population, fled their homes to the rural regions of Cacheu, Biombo and Quinara, and to the coastal islands or neighbouring Senegal and Guinea Conakry.
	www.fao.org /docrep/004/w9436e/w9436e04.htm (3781 words)

	FAO/GIEWS: Africa Report No.2, August 1998 Page 4
		It is estimated that over 50 000 people have been displaced by hostilities in the southern Afar region, putting additional strain on the fragile food supply situation of the host communities.
		In the Great Lakes region, despite continuing insecurity and population displacements in parts, food production is steadily recovering, with production currently approaching the pre-crisis levels of the early 1990s.
		Torrential rains in early August were reported in Niamey region and western Niger, causing damage to infrastructures and possibly also to crops.
	www.fao.org /docrep/004/w9436e/w9436e04.htm (3781 words)

	ecoi.net - Focus countries » Iraq » Ethnicity/Religion (Turkmen)
		U.S. officials have said that the operations in Tel Afar are aimed at eliminating the terrorist presence in the town.
		The newspaper reported that the Turkish Foreign Ministry relayed a message to Washington on 8 September demanding that the operations in Tel Afar be halted, and humanitarian supplies delivered to the population.
		In Kirkuk, according to the census of 1957 - the last one before Saddam Hussein's Arabisation policies distorted the ethnic make-up of the region - they represented 75 percent of the city's population.
	www.ecoi.net /doc/en/IQ/content/7/7657-7858 (4130 words)

	Nordic Africa Institute - Links - A Guide to Africa on the Internet
		A private initiative based in Canada, with information on population, culture, music, politics, associations, etc. on the Afar region of Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia.
		Arhotabba.com is a website of the Afar culture.
		The present web-site is an appendix to The languages of Tanzania: a bibliography, compiled and edited by Jouni Maho and Bonny Sands and will be continually updated.
	www.nai.uu.se /links/country/eastafrica.html (1706 words)

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