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The Ethiopian government has accused Eritrean gunmen of being responsible for the attack. Many governments around the world advise against traveling to the Afar region, citing increasing security concerns. Additionally, this region is also a hub for Afar–Somali clashes, due to many kebeles being put into the Afar region by the government. [15]
The Afar Triangle (also called the Afar Depression) is a geological depression caused by the Afar triple junction, which is part of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. The region has disclosed fossil specimens of the very earliest hominins ; that is, the earliest of the human clade, and it is thought by some paleontologists to be the cradle ...
English: Clickable map of the regions and zones of Ethiopia. Originally based on boundaries used in UNOCHA 27 March 2013 map (new URL, archive link).. Updated on 6 November 2017 to reflect Afar Zone 1 change in UNOCHA 5 January 2015 Map (new URL, archive link) (border now diverts around Kurri woreda instead of cuts across).
Asaita (Amharic: አሳይታ, Asayəta; Afar: Aysaqiita), known historically as Aussa (Awsa), is a town in northeastern Ethiopia, and until 2007 served as the capital of the Afar Region of Ethiopia. Located in the Afambo woreda , part of the region's Awsi Rasu zone, the town has a latitude and longitude of 11°34′N 41°26′E / 11. ...
Hari Rasu, also known as Administrative Zone 5, is a zone in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. Stretching along the eastern base of the Ethiopian highlands, this zone is bordered on the south and east by Gabi Rasu, on the west by the Amhara Region, and on the north by Awsi Rasu. This Zone covers most of the area governed by the Afar Hari Rasu. Hari ...
Location map Ethiopia Afar.png Module:Location map/data/Ethiopia Afar Region is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Afar Region . The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
This is a list of the woredas (districts) and city administrations in the Afar region of Ethiopia, compiled from material on the Central Statistical Agency website. v t
Afar is spoken as a first language by 98.64%, Amharic by 1.15%; the remaining 0.21% spoke all other primary languages reported. 99.62% of the population said they were Muslim. [ 2 ] The 1996 national census reported a total population for this Zone of 126,455, of whom 70,747 were men and 55,708 women; 1,747 or 1.4% of its population were urban ...