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Afar (Ethiopia)
Afar National Regional State
Last modified: 2020-12-26 by bruce berry
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by Miles Li, 07 Nov 2020
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Background
The Afar Regional National State is one of 
the nine ethnic divisions (kililoch) 
of Ethiopia and is the homeland of the 
Afar people. It is divided into 5 administrative zones comprising 29 woreda 
and one special administrative area.  Its current capital is Asayita and a 
new capital named Semera is currently under construction. Afar is in the north 
east of Ethiopia and borders Eritrea in the north,
Djibouti in the north east, Somali 
State in the east, Oromiya State in the south,
Amhara State and Tigray State 
in the west.
Bruce Berry, 12 Dec 2010
Flag of Afar
Afar is one of nine ethnic 
divisions of Ethiopia and is the homeland of the Afar people.  The flag has 
a red triangle at the hoist with three horizontal stripes of blue, white and 
green in the fly.  The regional emblem is placed in the centre of the white 
stripe.  This design was adopted in 2012 and is a variant of the previous 
flag which was used (see below).  This can be seen on the 
official web page of Afar regional 
government.
Jaume Olle, 01 June 2012
Former Flags of Afar
  
Image by Jaume Ollé, 22 Oct 2000 and resized by António 
MARTINS-Tuválkin, 23 Mar 2018
This flag (above) was used by the 
regional government until 2012 and was a vertical triband of green, white and blue with the regional 
emblem in the centre.
Jaume Ollé, 22 Oct 2000
 Image by Jaume Ollé, 
14 Jan 1997
A light blue over green flag was reported previously used by the Afar people.  Similar colours are used by Djibouti and Eritrea.
Jaume Ollé, 29 July 1999
Adal
 Image by 
Dirk Schönberger, 
01 March 2001
According to "Nations Without States" [xxx00], 
Adal is the name of an aspirant 
entity composed of the 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.
This flag is a horizontal tricolor of pale blue, 
white and green, bearing a five pointed red star.
Ned Smith, 15 February 2001
  
image by Dirk Schönberger, 01 March 2001
The book also mentions a traditional Afar-Saho flag - a green or black 
field with the Shahada in white and a small white crescent moon and 
five pointed star in the upper hoist.
Ned Smith, 15 February 2001
Afar-Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF) - UGUUGUMO
 
Image by Gvido Petersons,  August 2003 as shown at
http://www.arhotaba.com/arduf.htm 
 
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