Meanings
- A proposed state seeking secession from Ethiopia.
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".
1993, Africa Insight - Volumes 23-24, page 152 more examples
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.
2015, Tom Lansford, Political Handbook of the World 2015, →ISBNFor 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).
2016, Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel, Order and Disorder in the International System, →ISBN, page 124
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