https://www.afarofethiopia.com/home daily 1.0 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1589776692120-NPHRCSIEOCHRLVK2OHWD/AfarProject-a-1.jpg Home An Afar village, set on a lava field. Over 80% of Ethiopia’s 1.8 million Afar people still live traditionally in the desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1593398554305-4DC1CBFW78W3RZXQJAHC/AfarProject-4.jpg Home Kadir’s wife and grandson, Alako and Abdu, listen while he speaks inside their hut at Saha. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1593318855921-HB3SRNOU5RCDFAY1Z0ZK/AfarProject-103.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1593318707940-P7338GFGYOOIB7BY87AB/AfarProject-102.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1590346561944-56E2LEW3BNI51BKE72H5/AfarProject-32.jpg Home Known for their impressive horns, the indigenous Afar cattle is much-loved by the tribe, but its popularity has been declining in recent years, as a result of drought and disease. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1590341979312-HKDYVU3PZHPJ0H922XVV/AfarProject-31.jpg Home The “parking lot” at the weekly market in Asaita, to which Afar may travel for days to buy essential household goods. Camels can return with enough supplies to last a family for a couple of months. These market runs, called arho, are typically made by men. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1590338671425-5KMNQ79OL7PLBI4QCT6K/AfarProject-24.jpg Home A boy carries fresh camel milk in a tightly-woven basket called an amour. The inside is smoked over a fire, creating a surface that is milk-tight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1590340989718-HGNB14Q1BXIHZYI2ZJQ3/AfarProject-29.jpg Home Camels haul water for many miles to Afar encampments from wells, cisterns, and other sources scattered across the desert. These water runs are typically made by women, and can take 12 hours out of a day. Here, camels are loaded with water from a solar-powered well that was funded by a German NGO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1590964708896-Z1MT5VWINP5BIP78RJ4Z/AfarProject-59.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1590382424206-LFAB3I6DQSAD55X6DSWB/AfarProject-40.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1590959091378-EB0BTDFH7846W6TKBB2C/AfarProject-58.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1590817624184-FELA7XNRJVA47CSE2VFM/AfarProject-49.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1592975778195-R9ESFVXEJ9AIT6QNGYWG/AfarProject-8.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1590955498885-N5HVUHLXAH97FBSEL1UO/AfarProject-52.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1590983626610-47X1O79J1W5NG8GFXE7Q/AfarProject-66.jpg Home When water sources dry up, Afar dig pits in riverbeds until they strike some. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1590981616764-90W99DNK21PSPDHWLFR9/AfarProject-62.jpg Home A young woman from Shektigolu. When the village’s cisterns run dry - as they always do in the dry season - women leave every day at 2am to fetch water with their donkeys, not returning until 11am or noon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1590983218290-60YQIFTXTVF7GGLR57Y0/AfarProject-65.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1590966229024-YBYCMVFRS9A38F3CT8LX/AfarProject-60.jpg Home The water collection pond at Shekoyta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1590982825432-93KQKJP3D9DBE8JZ0899/AfarProject-64.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1591076152631-51BYMPKKRPR2BEXMCTAC/AfarProject-69.jpg Home Afar women grind maize to make flour… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1591333949534-BT030C0G8VN860PR0QDZ/AfarProject-75.jpg Home The sharp thorns of the wayani can seriously injure animals and people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1592103777988-3QWP2V1JDN2O2M781JV9/AfarProject-83.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1592795462697-2VIC0AL7F04W7V2ZYR12/AfarProject-96.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1592103865864-QXYIABJKSCSH6XISV3NM/AfarProject-84.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1591588246446-K0BTDO3AKVK66YISRGT4/AfarProject-81.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1594966052218-YT7T7YPHAN37Z3854RS6/AfarProject-106.jpg Home A garden at Wanasa, grown with excess water produced by a well drilled by a German NGO. “At first people thought this was a joke,” said Elama Ali Ahmed, who planted it. “But I quickly convinced them it was a good idea once we started harvesting!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1592373110943-7MDZD91CYMXMUW19EJ7B/AfarProject-92.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1592103825770-T1KT9Z5BW7CNNIVHJUP4/AfarProject-82.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1594879518185-YSROIWWSZJ2ZHGNK5AVF/AfarProject-86.jpg Home Hasina Wegris Al-Mohammed, who had just walked for 10 days across the desert with cattle and donkeys in search of pasture, scoffed at the idea of adopting a new kind of life. “Who will accept me in town?” she said. “I don’t have any place there.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1594880028162-FA20Q4DR42JGOD3U4EG2/AfarProject-104.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1594966247457-A1D1DDSDVFZ0WNECCJJF/AfarProject-107.jpg Home Fatima Ibrahim, 23 years old, from Dubti, had pre-eclampsia when she came to the Barbara May Maternity Hospital, in Mille, which is run by Valerie Browning, in partnership with APDA. Fatima gave birth to Humid Hussein, seen here at six days old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1592797026192-KSK9IFY4JJX6IYWRX0KP/AfarProject-99.jpg Home Khadir Ali, the leader of Musle’s fima’a. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1592160076920-XXGZRPVBOWPG695BNIGH/AfarProject-85.jpg Home Stacks of stones, called waidals, mark the graves of Afar warriors who died in battle generations ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1592372760378-P0PON2HNX0OGTJ8DF926/AfarProject-87.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1595394896520-CML3UFKLEXZV6SL480VP/AfarProject-113.jpg Home Some Afar are involved in the salt trade, from harvesting to transporting to selling it. While the most important source of Afar salt in Ethiopia is Lake Afdera (above) where water is pumped into evaporation pools, the Dallol salt flats are more internationally famous, thanks to the photogenic camel caravans that still operate there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1592795539406-ARAX5EQNG30SKY8WRKUF/AfarProject-97.jpg Home Putting the kids away for the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1592372933923-YAMZ5ZM0NOFAE62XWGVI/AfarProject-90.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1592795569830-8Q7WHALTZUX6C0S9VQA7/AfarProject-98.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1594965631705-DZ2FOOL1CYDL6XI17U7Q/AfarProject-105.jpg Home A well being drilled at Gega, by the Afar Pastoralist Development Association. “Now it can take all day to bring water back to the village,” says Mohammed Hassan, APDA’s local coordinator. “If we get water here, our lives will be much easier….We might even be able to do some farming.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebe29696f1b65366ecfa2df/1595397742789-M9OMERH7Y4NBZFOW1CNV/AfarProject-114.jpg Home