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	Afar - Ethnos - Books about the Afar People
		Afar is one of the nine ethnic divisions (kililoch) of Ethiopia.
		Peoples of the Horn of Africa: Somalia, Afar and Saho
		Peoples of the Horn of Africa: Somali, Afar and Saho
	www.almudo.com /ethnos/Afar.htm (91 words)

	African Tribes - Afar People
		The Afar people live primarily in Ethiopia and the areas of Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somaliacan in the Horn of Africa.
		The Afar people are very dependent on the livestock for the economy.
		The Ethiopian Afar are a pastoral people with a fearless reputation.
	www.africaguide.com /culture/tribes/afar.htm (271 words)

	Interview With Afar President
		Ali Sirro is the re-elected President of Afar, one of the most neglected and marginalised regions of Ethiopia, with a population estimated at 1.2 million.
		Afar is fortunate enough to have natural resources like rivers that flow throughout the year, starting from the Awash River in the south to the Ragali river in the north.
		Every Afar wants to teach his son or daughter, but it is beyond his capacity as he is living with his cattle in the bush.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/33/036.html (1976 words)

	Cultural Profile of the Afar of the Horn of Africa
		The Afar are a distinct Eastern Cushite people, with language and culture related to the Somali and Oromo.
		The Afar maintain a loose confederation of four "sultanates." Rather than being hereditary sultantates, each sultan is appointed by the people, but reportedly is chosen from alternating segments in each of the four sections of the Afar.
		Afar fought for Ahmad Gran, the Amir of Harar, who, in his attempt to establish a Muslim Empire in Abbyssinia in the 16th century, devastaed the Ethiopian Highlands.
	www.strategyleader.org /profiles/afar.html (1394 words)

	UNDP-EUE: Situation of Displaced People in Afar Region Remains Sketchy, 03/99
		As in Ethiopia's Afar Region, also in the adjacent areas of both neighboring countries the Afar people, organized in different clans and sub-clans, represent the majority of the population.
		The livelihood of the Afar pastoralist population is primarily based on livestock (small ruminants, cattle and camels), palm mats and, in Zone 2, salt.
		Reportedly, some 290 people from Su'ula and 710 people from Afdera had moved in March to areas around Logia where possibly some of these 1,000 people might have used the so called "Soger-Camp", which served in earlier times as part of the transit facilities for returnees and expellees[5] coming from Eritrea (Assab).
	www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Hornet/Afar0399.html (3781 words)

	Asseb as Symbol for the Restoration of Ethiopia's Natural Seacoast - Negussay Ayele
		Asseb represents the Afar people who have been part and parcel of Ethiopia; it represents the vast, ecologically contiguous region on the Horn historically, culturally, economically and logistically tied to the broader area of Ethiopia; it represents a seaport that has been a vital lifeline with the outside world for all Ethiopians for centuries.
		It should be appreciated by all concerned that the relationship between the Afar people of the wider Assab region on the Horn and the rest of the Ethiopian people is one that transcends the artificial colonial boundaries and divisions imposed on everyone in the Horn of Africa in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
		The relationship between the Afar and the rest of the Ethiopian people has been maintained uninterrupted historically in war and peace, including territorial and political struggles for power and space, which was and is par for the course in Ethiopia and elsewhere in the world.
	www.ethiopians.com /Views/Negussay_Asseb_Symbol.htm (8257 words)

	Prosopis juliflora: The Paradox of the Afar Region
		Some groups of people are needy for the survival of the species whereas other parts are desperately looking for systems that able to eradicate the species from the area.
		It is now invading Zone 1 and 3 of Afar Region (from Metehara of east Shewa to Ayssayita and Dubti, which covers in the highway of 400 kms from its origin, Melkaworer).
		Therefore, all such kinds of exposed areas are invaded by this species and so that Afar people are suffering from the effect of this species since 1980 (Hailu, 2002).
	www.geocities.com /akababi/hailu1.htm (875 words)

	news
		The Afar nationalist movement was born in the colonial era of conquest and enslavement of peoples, out of necessity to protect and preserve the Afar society from disintegration.
		However, had the UN taken over the administration of the Afar (Danakil) area of the Red Sea and conducted the referendum on its own terms and became responsible for its outcome, then the Afar people and ARDUF would have been confronted with an international challenge to accept the outcome of the referendum in Eritrea.
		Thus, since this is not the case, ARDUF strongly believes that the Afar people still retain the right to express their free will in a democratic, fair and free referendum to determine their own destiny.
	www.ethiopiafirst.com /news2002/Jan/Open_Letter_by_ARDUF.html (1066 words)

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		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 /eue_web/Afar0905.htm (6289 words)

	UN EUE: Report on Afar Region of Ethiopia, January 1996
		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.
		The Afar people, a Cushitic, predominantly nomadic race who share linguistic and cultural ties with the Somali, Beja and Saho people, inhabit some of the most arid, hostile territory of the Horn of Africa (see map).
		People in rural areas will be, at least in the short term, unaffected by both the current political transition and the "development" opportunities it promises.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Hornet/uneue_afar.html (6175 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Afars in Eritrea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Eritrean minorities, including Afars and Kunamas, opposed the independence of Eritrea, but the EPLF managed to dismiss its conservative Islamic rivals from office and declare independence following the referendum with 99.8 percent of the population in favor of independence from Ethiopia.
		The objective of the operation was reportedly to push the Afar people and Ugugumo militia towards the desert area beyond the demarcation line defining the regions.
		OSALA is a coalition of several groups: United Oromo People’s Liberation Front, Oromo Abbo Liberation Front, Somali People’s Liberation Front, Oromo People’s Liberation Organization, Afar People’s Liberation Army, and Islamic Union of Western Somalia.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=53101 (1906 words)

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		In Afar the situation of the nomadic population is a little less clear as the mission was unable to determine the proportion of nomads that may have escaped with their herds.
		People from a particular community nominate a representative to register those claiming to be displaced; being familiar with the community, the representative distinguishes between genuine and non-genuine cases.
		The population in the Region of Afar is predominantly rural (92%) and Muslim (96%), and of Afar ethnic group (92%).
	www.telecom.net.et /~undp-eue/reports/displaced.htm (12045 words)

	Ethiopia's Forgotten Crisis
		Under soaring temperatures of up to 50C, the nomadic peoples of the Afar trek hundreds of kilometres through the arid desert lands in search of water and grazing pastures with their camels and immense herds of livestock.
		All people can do is helplessly look on as their animals die one after another.
		These people are chronically food insecure and in dire need of help.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2002/08/09-08-02/Ethiopia.htm (665 words)

	get involved: advocacy: reproductive health: Working Towards a Solution for FGC
		Nana is of the Afar people – a nomadic group that follows the rainfall through northeastern Ethiopia.
		With their health and the health of their daughters at stake, the Afar women know that stopping this practice is a necessity.
		And because men are the decision-makers in Afar communities, the lesser form of FGC is widely practiced even when the severe form has been abandoned.
	www.careusa.org /getinvolved/advocacy/agenda/rh/05072002_fgc.asp (1217 words)

	... The Worsening Plight of the Afars in Ethiopia
		The Afar people are not only witnessing another famine but the current one by the account of the different humanitarian organisations working in the region is one of the hardest and the severest in memory.
		The Afar Forum denounces the sinister machination of the EPRDF regime designed to worsen the plight of the Afar people and further its inability to guarantee the security of the Afar people from the indiscriminate killings committed by Issa-Somail.
		The Afars are subjugated to unprecedented suffering under the leadership of EPRDF and its regional puppet leader.
	www.ethiomedia.com /news/afar_forum_011603.html (641 words)

	Proposed Strategy for Engagement in Afar Region
		At least 80% of the Afar population relies on transhumant animal husbandry for subsistence, while a minority have settled along the banks of the Awash river, or have adopted a sedentary existence in communities along major transport routes.
		Out of necessity, the Afar have evolved a highly adapted mode of transhumant pastoralism, which is probably the most efficient (and perhaps only) sustainable form of land use in such a barren environment.
		Access to the majority of the Afar population is therefore problematic, but can be roughly divided into three categories: the population of the Awash valley and along major transport axes; semi-nomadic populations with restricted migratory patterns; nomadic, highly mobile populations unassociated with the Awash or transport routes.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/eue_web/AFARSTRA.htm (2852 words)

	African People and Culture -Tribes
		The Afar people live primarily in Ethiopia and the areas of Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia in the Horn of Africa.
		Among the people groups in Africa they are unique in that they have kept and continued to develop their own culture even in the midst of Islamic invasions which have conquered and adapted many of the current people groups
		The Tuareg people are predominently nomadic people of the sahara desert, mostly in the Northern reaches of Mali near Timbuktu and Kidal.
	www.africaguide.com /culture/tribes (889 words)

	US attack on Tal Afar virtually ignored
		While people of the US Gulf Coast are suffering the effects of a cocktail of chemicals and effluent in the flood waters, 170 residents of Tal Afar have fallen ill to "curious poisons," which, according to Dr. Mohammed Qassem of the Iraqi Red Crescent, could result from "inhaling gases."
		It's a similar "strong versus weak" principle in Tal Afar where organized insurgents are said to have escaped the city via a system of clandestine tunnels leaving women, children and the elderly to their fate.
		Dozens of people are going to be buried under their homes in the dead of the night.
	www.iraq4u.com /forum/fb.asp?m=5573 (1059 words)

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		ADDIS ABABA, 24 May 2002 (IRIN) - Ismael Ali Sirro is the re-elected President of Afar, one of the most neglected and marginalised regions of Ethiopia, with a population estimated at 1.2 million.
		To settle these people in on area — this is the idea we are working on.
		We are also building boarding schools, because these people are nomadic.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=27937 (2165 words)

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		Moreover, he pointed out, the miniscule educational component available was also serving to drive away the people who benefited from it, lured by higher wages and better lifestyles in other parts of the country or abroad.
		Esayas said the marginalisation of the Afar was in part historical - the divide between the lowlands of Ethiopia and the highlands, where the majority of the population live.
		After Afar became a regional state in 1995 — it is supposed to control its own budgets and priorities — the problems were compounded.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=27812 (1568 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Ethiopia's forgotten crisis
		Occupying some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world, the Afar people are renowned for their resilience and self-sufficiency.
		As a result, livestock - the main means of survival for the Afar pastoralists- are dying at an alarming rate.
		But already, children are already beginning to show signs of malnutrition, according to Action Contre La Faim (ACF), one of the few aid agencies working in the region.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/2175923.stm (725 words)

	... ARDUF appeals to humanity on behalf of Afar people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In recent months, the combination of brutal violence and extreme famine has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people from their land and forced them to flee to neighboring regions and other parts of the world.
		Today our people are being attacked both by the Eritrean and Ethiopian governments and also exposed to severe violence by Issa-Somalis.
		On one hand, the brutal Eritrean regime forcibly rounds up people between the ages of 14 to 55, including young boys and girls, for its military machine, and uses unprecedented force and violence against our people.
	www.ethiomedia.com /image/arduf_appeal.html (374 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:AFR
		The people are called 'Danakil' in Arabic and by others, but that is considered to be offensive by the Afar; called 'Adal' in Amharic.
		The people are called 'Danakil' by others, but this is considered offensive.
		The people are called 'Danakil' by others, but that is considered to be offensive by the Afar.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=AFR (120 words)

	The Fourth Rail: The Anbar Campaign Intensifies
		He also states that Tal Afar is the Iraqi Army's first true test in combat in an urban environment, and but the first of such operations; "[Tal Afar] is a good experiment for the Iraqi forces.
		An airstike is conducted in the town of Ubaydi, and a senior al Qaeda leader, known as "Sheik", is believed to have been killed.
		The assault on Tal Afar and attacks in and around Qaim are merely the prelude to further operations along the Euphrates River and in northern Iraq.
	billroggio.com /archives/2005/09/the_anbar_campa_1.php (3310 words)

	ETHIOPIA -- POLITICAL PARTIES
		The ARDUF was opposed to the division of the Afar region between Eritrea and Ethiopia and called for the reunification and autonomy of Afar territory.
		The movement has wide support from the Afar population, but internal quarrels were responsible for its failure to win a majority in the 1995 elections to the Regional Council of Afar Regional State, where it has only 12 seats out of a total 48.
		Backed primarily by the Ogaden people, the WSDP has 11 of the 139 seats in the Somali Regional Council and two of the 23 Somali Region seats in the House of Peoples' Representatives.
	www.angelfire.com /ak/sellassie/politics/parties.html (3529 words)

	Afar (Ethiopia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Light blue over green flag was reported previously in use by Afar people.
		Accoring to "Nations Without States" [xxx00], Adal is the name of an aspirant entity composed of Afar and Saho people in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea.
		The flag shown in the book for Adal is that of the Afar Liberation Front, which is different than the Afar flags shown on FOTW.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/et-af.html (142 words)

	Remember Iraq?
		While the world has been falling all over itself to remember the victims of 9—11 and digging deep in its pockets to aid the wealthiest nation on the planet recovering from a natural disaster, a ferocious man-made onslaught on a town in northeast Iraq is being virtually ignored.
		maybe this writer doesn’t comprehend that the people affected by the hurricane are the poorest and most oppressed in all of the US and have been that way for centuries.
		Fucking Cuba can, and has evacuated a million people when a cat 5 hurricane threatened (and later hit) their country, and no one died as a result of it.
	www.guerrillanews.com /articles/1681/Remember_Iraq (2694 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ethiopia - Afar Groups \| Ethiopian Information Resource
		The Afar people, numbering about 3 million in Ethiopia, reside in the area bordering Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia.
		The ALF was dedicated to maintaining the political, cultural, and religious autonomy of the Afar people.
		The ALF was one of the few opposition movements to express some interest in Mengistu's plan for creating autonomous regions, primarily because most Afar inhabited the area that was to become Aseb Autonomous Region.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/ethiopia/ethiopia150.html (242 words)

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