Afaria

English

Etymology

From Afar +‎ -ia.

Proper noun

Afaria

1. A proposed state seeking secession from Ethiopia.
   • 1993, Africa Insight - Volumes 23-24, page 15:

     The transitional government in Ethiopia has been concerned that FRUD could link with the older Afar Liberation Front (ALF) in Ethiopia and Eritrea with its dream of a separate "Afaria".

   • 2015, Tom Lansford, Political Handbook of the World 2015, →ISBN:

     The outbreak of ethnic violence in 1991 severely strained Djiboutian-French Relations. Paris, which had deployed troops in March to disarm Ethiopian soldiers fleeing into Djibouti, dismissed the government's claims that Ethiopian Afars were seeking to establish a “greater Afaria” and in October ordered its troops to remain in their barracks.

   • 2016, Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel, Order and Disorder in the International System, →ISBN, page 124:

     For instance, in the Afaria region of Ethiopia (Afaria is situated close to Ethiopia-Somalia and Ethiopia-Kenya borders) there is a sustained standoff between tigrai-amhara organizations (Tigrai Liberation National Front and Afar Liberation Front).