Afar people - Wikipedia
WEBThe Afar (Afar: Qafár), also known as the Danakil, Adali and Odali, are a Cushitic ethnic group inhabiting the Horn of Africa. [4] . They primarily live in the Afar Region of Ethiopia and in northern Djibouti, as well as the entire southern coast of Eritrea.
Eritrean Afar People – Eritrean Afar National Congress
WEBThe current Eritrean regime is displacing Afar from their homeland in Dankalia, which they have inhabited for more than 2,000 years, and re-colonizing it with others. Eritrea is achieving this using mass murder, terror, intimidation, rape, persecution and other forms of …
Eritrean Afar in Dankalia - ArcGIS StoryMaps
WEBOct 28, 2023 · Since 2015, the Eritrean Afar have suffered a series of extrajudicial killings and intentional deprivation of security, medicine, food, and infrastructure services on the part of the Eritrean government, which refuses to cater to Afar’s needs.
The Afars: Eritrea’s Forgotten Refugees - FPIF
WEBDec 4, 2015 · The Afars, a tightly knit Muslim minority in one of the most inhospitable corners of Africa, are determined to keep their home and the culture that sustains them. By Dan Connell | December 4, 2015. Thousands of refugees have made their way to eastern Ethiopia across Eritrea’s porous southern borders in recent years.
WEBThe Afar people have been subjected to extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearance by the Eritrean Government since 2000. These killings have also triggered their displacement from their lands within the country and across borders to …
Red Sea Afar Democratic Organisation - Wikipedia
WEBThe organisation is made up of mainly ethnic Afar people, and was founded in early 1995-1996 following a revolt by the Red Sea Afar people led by Ahmed Humed, after the UN-supervised Eritrean independence referendum was held in 1993.
Second Afar insurgency - Wikipedia
WEBThe Second Afar insurgency was an insurgency in the Afar Region of Ethiopia and the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea (also known as Dankalia), waged by various Afar rebel groups. Both Ethiopia and Eritrea supported different rebel groups in the region in a proxy war, and occasionally engaged in border skirmishes with each other, as well as ...
Eritrean Afars - MERIP
WEBThe Afars are a Cushitic people related to the Somalis and the Saho of central Eritrea. They have their own language and culture, shaped by the unforgiving environment in which they live.
Afar in Eritrea - Minority Rights Group
WEBJul 1, 1997 · The coastal lowlands of Eritrea, a northward extension of the Rift Valley, are blisteringly hot, support no plant life and are inhabited by Afar, also known as Danakils. These Hamitic people are Muslim. They speak Afar and Arabic and are pastoral nomads.
WEBEritrean Afar State in Exile (EASE) is an exiled Eritrean Afar political organization dedicated to self-determination and self-rule of Eritrean Afar people in the coastal homeland of Dankalia, Eritrea, where the indigenous Afar are subjected to marginalization, persecution and ethnic cleansing at the hands of the current Eritrean government.