"Afaria" meaning in English

See Afaria in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: From Afar + -ia. Etymology templates: {{af|en|Afar|-ia}} Afar + -ia Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Afaria
  1. A proposed state seeking secession from Ethiopia. Categories (place): Ethiopia

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          "ref": "1993, Africa Insight - Volumes 23-24, page 15",
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          "ref": "2015, Tom Lansford, Political Handbook of the World 2015",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2016, Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel, Order and Disorder in the International System, page 124",
          "text": "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).",
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