afar

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In 2026, a University of Chicago led team reported a 2.6 million year old Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia's Afar region.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

The Afar regional government said it was "doing all the necessary life saving operations" on the injured migrants following the "horrific" accident.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

About 85 Ethiopian migrants were travelling along the eastern migration route when the lorry overturned in the town of Semera on Tuesday morning, a senior Afar official Mohammed Ali Biedo said in a statement.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

In 2009, a research team led by Arizona State University paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie uncovered eight bones from the foot of an ancient human ancestor in 3.4-million-year-old sediments in the Afar Rift of Ethiopia.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2025

Afar down the long pond, came another joyous sound, that of rippling laughter.

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram