One of the main salt basins in South Arabia is located in the southern part of Yemen, along the edges of Ramlat as-Sabʿatayn. This basin, some 600 km long and 100 km wide, shows diapiric walls orientated northwest-southeast, from the... more
One of the main salt basins in South Arabia is located in the southern part of Yemen, along the edges of Ramlat as-Sabʿatayn. This basin, some 600 km long and 100 km wide, shows diapiric walls orientated northwest-southeast, from the Indian Ocean to the Jawf. The salt-mines follow a long line west of Ḥaḍramawt cliffs (Jawl) and north of Jabal al-Nisiyīn. Salt-mines are sometimes located at the tail of main wādīs, such as Wādīs ʿIrmā/ʿAṭf, Jirdān, Ḥammām and Bayḥān. Salt was probably a small-scale production, feeding a local and regional trade in antiquity. In Northern Tihâma, salt mines around as-Salîf were known to exist in the medieval period. In the Afar depression on the western side of the Red Sea, salt traded to Highlands.
In several previous articles, I examined the parallel characteristics of the fake colonial states of Sudan (real Ethiopia) and Abyssinia (fake Ethiopia) that have been the end result of the Freemasonic Orientalist fallacies of Pan-Arabism... more
In several previous articles, I examined the parallel characteristics of the fake colonial states of Sudan (real Ethiopia) and Abyssinia (fake Ethiopia) that have been the end result of the Freemasonic Orientalist fallacies of Pan-Arabism and Ethiopianism.
In this article, I will examine a bogus-historical term that has been constructed by the Freemasonic Orientalist ateliers and academia of France and England to further spread confusion in the wider region, and – more importantly – consolidate the two fallacies in the area, namely the pseudo-doctrines of Pan-Arabism and Ethiopianism: Nubia. First published in: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/143394
This paper focuses on the Afar and the Afar Region as a part of Ethiopia. There are introductions to the political situation including relations and ongoing conflicts, to the language, economic situation, religion and the social... more
This paper focuses on the Afar and the Afar Region as a part of Ethiopia. There are introductions to the political situation including relations and ongoing conflicts, to the language, economic situation, religion and the social organization also fo- cusing on the woman’s role. Furthermore the article deals with education and how to approach the implementation of a new school building from an anthropological point of view. This topic is the second part of the book "Tradition in Transition. Reflections on the Architecture of Ethiopia" by Andrea Rieger-Jandl (ed.), 2013, IVA Vienna.
Republication of an article which was initially published in Buzzle on 24th November 2006 Abyssinia, fallaciously re-baptized 'Ethiopia', is the world's most excruciating, most appalling, and most inhuman tyranny. The country has been... more
Republication of an article which was initially published in Buzzle on 24th November 2006
Abyssinia, fallaciously re-baptized 'Ethiopia', is the world's most excruciating, most appalling, and most inhuman tyranny. The country has been ruled by the Semitic Abyssinian (Habesha) tribes Amhara and Tigray, and expanded enslaving many Cushitic African nations with the help of the colonial powers England, France and America. In the process, the ruling tribes perpetrated more than 15 ceaseless, ongoing and ultimately cruel genocides against all the subjugated nations which struggle for national liberation, independence, and secession from Africa's most evil Cemetery of Nations: 'Fake Ethiopia'.
East Africa´s most loathsome tyrannies, Sudan (Real Ethiopia) and Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia), are characterized by many similarities that in and by themselves bear witness to the fact that the same evil plan has been implemented in both... more
East Africa´s most loathsome tyrannies, Sudan (Real Ethiopia) and Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia), are characterized by many similarities that in and by themselves bear witness to the fact that the same evil plan has been implemented in both realms to plunge the local populations into underdevelopment, abject poverty, monstrous oppression and deliberate genocide. First published in: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/143394
This memo focuses on gender issues in Ethiopia's Afar region. More generally it also addresses the situation for pastoral people in Ethiopia and gender issues. The background to understanding women, gender, and development, is women's... more
This memo focuses on gender issues in Ethiopia's Afar region. More generally it also addresses the situation for pastoral people in Ethiopia and gender issues. The background to understanding women, gender, and development, is women's ability to participate in various aspects of, and levels of, societal life, and that there are cultural constraints to such participation.
Mit weltweit zunehmender Migration hat auch die umstrittene Tradition der weiblichen Genitalverstümmelung Europa längst erreicht. Dem Schweigen der prakti- zierenden Gemeinschaften ist es zuzuschreiben, dass dieses Thema lange unberücks-... more
Mit weltweit zunehmender Migration hat auch die umstrittene Tradition der weiblichen Genitalverstümmelung Europa längst erreicht. Dem Schweigen der prakti- zierenden Gemeinschaften ist es zuzuschreiben, dass dieses Thema lange unberücks- ichtigt blieb. In den vergangenen Jahren haben sich jedoch immer wieder Frauen an die Öffentlichkeit gewandt und über ihr Schicksal berichtet. Sie legten den Grund- stein für eine kritische Auseinandersetzung und die Gründung von Hilfsorganisatio- nen. Auch die Politik bindet sich ein und versucht, die Frauen verstärkt durch Gesetze zu schützen. Um eine Veränderung in der Tradition der weiblichen Genitalbeschnei- dung zu erreichen, muss eine Bewusstseinsbildung über Sinn und Konsequenzen in- nerhalb der Gemeinschaften stattfinden. Dabei ist die Integration der betroffenen Per- sonen in den Alltag der westlichen Gesellschaft von wesentlicher Bedeutung. Der Kampf gegen Genitalverstümmelung in Europa und weltweit hat jedoch erst begonnen. Als ein Beispiel für Anti-FGM Initiativen in Afrika wird ein Projekt in der äthiopischen Afar-Region vorgestellt.
Drinking water is scarce in Djibouti because of the hot desert climate. Moreover, seawater intrusion or fossil saltwater contamination of the limited number of freshwater aquifers due to groundwater overexploitation affect those who live... more
Drinking water is scarce in Djibouti because of the hot desert climate. Moreover, seawater intrusion or fossil saltwater contamination of the limited number of freshwater aquifers due to groundwater overexploitation affect those who live close to the coastline (~ 80% of the population). Despite this, the geothermal potential of the country's plentiful hot springs could resolve the increasing electricity demand. Strontium isotopes (87 Sr/ 86 Sr) are routinely used to determine sources and mixing relationships in geochemical studies. They have proven to be useful in determining weathering processes and quantifying endmember mixing processes. In this study, we summarise and reinterpret the 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratio and Sr concentration data of the groundwater collected to date in the different regions of the Djibouti country, trying to discriminate between the different water sources, to evaluate the water/rock ratio and to compare the data with those coming from the groundwater in the neighbouring Main Ethiopian Rift and the Red Sea bottom brine. New preliminary data from the groundwater of the Hanlé-Gaggadé plains are also presented.
First published in the American Chronicle, Buzzle and AfroArticles on 26th April 2007 Republished: http://www.somalitalk.com/oil/freedom.html (on the same date) http://qilxuujaarsoo.blogspot.com.eg/2007/05/freedom-for-ogaden-wests-last-choince.html (3rd May 2007) Ogaden was for millennia a passageway between Africa’s East coast and the Abyssinian plateau; through the Periplus of the Red Sea, a text written approximately before 1930 years by an Alexandrian Egyptian captain and merchant, we know details about the navigation alongside the African Red Sea coast, through the Bab al Mandeb straits, and further on until the Cap of Spices (Akroterion Aromaton – present day Cap Guardafui) and down to Rhapta, in the area of today’s Dar es Salam in Tanzania. Since the sailors had to arrange everything in a way to sail according to the direction of monsoons, sometimes they had to wait many long months in these faraway places; this was the main reason for the development of the trans-African caravan routes through the region of Ogaden.
The future of the Afar people and the new political developments in Ethiopia Ethiopia is in the middle of a civil war that has been going on since November 2020 that killed thousands and displaced more than two million people. The Afar... more
The future of the Afar people and the new political developments in Ethiopia Ethiopia is in the middle of a civil war that has been going on since November 2020 that killed thousands and displaced more than two million people. The Afar people are not immune from these conflicts. The future of the Afar people in Ethiopia depends on stability of the country. For three decades Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) ruled Ethiopia with iron fist. TPLF has dream of creating an independent Tigray state, a "Greater Tigray" that include the resource-rich parts of the Afar region. When TPLF's came to power thirty years ago, the Afar people had two strong guerrilla groups (ALF & ANLF) that was the main reason why the TPLF decided to postpone its Great Tigray project in Afar region.
The existence of narrow axial volcanic zones of mid-oceanic ridges testifies of the underlying concentration of both melt distribution and tectonic strain. As a result of repeated diking and faulting, axial volcanic zones therefore... more
The existence of narrow axial volcanic zones of mid-oceanic ridges testifies of the underlying concentration of both melt distribution and tectonic strain. As a result of repeated diking and faulting, axial volcanic zones therefore represent a spectacular topographic expression of plate divergence. However, the submarine location of oceanic ridges makes it difficult to constrain the interplay between tectonic and magmatic processes in time and space. In this study, we use the Dabbahu–Manda Hararo (DMH) magmatic rift segment (Afar, Ethiopia) to provide quantitative constraints on the response of tectonic processes to variations in magma supply at divergent plate boundaries. The DMH magmatic rift segment is considered an analogue of an oceanic ridge, exhibiting a fault pattern, extension rate and topographic relief comparable to intermediate-to slow-spreading ridges. Here, we focus on the northern and central parts of DMH rift, where we present quantitative slip rates for the past 40 kyr for major and minor normal fault scarps in the vicinity of a recent (September 2005) dike intrusion. The data obtained show that the axial valley topography has been created by enhanced slip rates that occurred during periods of limited volcanism, suggestive of reduced magmatic activity, probably in association with changes in strain distribution in the crust. Our results indicate that the development of the axial valley topography has been regulated by the lifetimes of the magma reservoirs and their spatial distribution along the segment , and thus to the magmatic cycles of replenishment/differentiation (<100 kyr). Our findings are also consistent with magma-induced deformation in magma-rich rift segments. The record of two tectonic events of metric vertical amplitude on the fault that accommodated the most part of surface displacement during the 2005 dike intrusion suggests that the latter type of intrusion occurs roughly every 10 kyr in the northern part of the DMH segment.
"To date and characterize depositional environments of the hominin-bearing Hadar Formation, lacustrine sediments from the eastern part of the Hadar Basin (Ledi- Geraru research area) were studied using tephrostratigraphy and... more
"To date and characterize depositional environments of the hominin-bearing Hadar Formation, lacustrine sediments from the eastern part of the Hadar Basin (Ledi- Geraru research area) were studied using tephrostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy.
The Sidi Hakoma Tuff, Triple Tuff-4, and the Kada Hadar Tuff, previously dated by 40Ar/39Ar in other parts of the basin, were identifi ed using characteristic geochemical composition and lithologic features. Paleomagnetic samples were collected every 0.5 m along an ~230-m-thick composite section between the Sidi Hakoma Tuff and the Kada Hadar Tuff. A primary detrital remanent magnetization mostly carried by (titano-) magnetites of basaltic origin was recognized. Consistent with existing data of the Hadar Basin, paleomagnetic directions show a postdepositional counterclockwise vertical-axis tectonic rotation (~5°–10°) and shallowing of paleomagnetic inclination (~5°–10°) related to sedimentation and compaction. Two normal-polarity intervals (chrons 2An.3n and 2An.2n) are recorded bracketing a reversed interval identifi ed as the Mammoth event (chron 2An.2r). Resulting sediment accumulation rates (~90 cm/k.y.) are high compared to existing accumulation-rate estimates from the more western part of the Hadar Basin. The resulting eastward increasing trend suggests that deposition took place in an eastward-tilting basin. Sediment accumulations were constant throughout the basin from ca. 3.4 to 3.2 Ma. At 3.2 Ma, a regional and relatively short-lived event is indicated by signifi cant change in depositional conditions and a large increase in accumulation
rate. This disruption may have been related to increased climate variability due to astronomical climate forcing. It provides a possible explanation for changes in the Hadar faunal community and Australopithecus afarensis in particular."
The event is a first; never before did so many influential European statesmen and administrators gather to honor a scattered nation of permanent migrants, the Roma. The First EU Roma Summit could herald a frank interest and a sincere... more
The event is a first; never before did so many influential European statesmen and administrators gather to honor a scattered nation of permanent migrants, the Roma. The First EU Roma Summit could herald a frank interest and a sincere pledge, but certainly these moral qualities never preoccupy the Brussels bureaucracy and their unelected and invisible masters.
Why now this hypocritical interest for a so much insulted and offended nation?
One has to remind to the deaf, bubble-talking EU administrators that there has never been any sort of discrimination against the non-Christian, non-Muslim, non-Jewish Roma in Asia and in Africa; the discrimination occurred in Europe, on Christian European territory only, and it would rather be advisable to present apologies than to bribe.
Does the EU pursue such policies of corruption?
The angelic authorities of the world’s most loathed centralizing political force certainly do not bribe anyone; they simply manage to invite Mr. George Soros in this event about the much persecuted (by European Christians) nation of the Roma (still comfortably called ‘Gypsies’ by so many ‘enlightened’ Europeans); he will probably pay the bill……
First published in AfroArticles, Buzzle and the American Chronicle on 16th September 2008
Bezugnehmend auf eine im Februar 2011 stattgefundene Exkursion und Feldforschung in die äthiopische Afar-Region, beleuchtet dieser Beitrag die Situation der in den Forschungsgebieten Ali Adayto und Logia lebenden Afar und ihre täglichen... more
Bezugnehmend auf eine im Februar 2011 stattgefundene Exkursion und Feldforschung in die äthiopische Afar-Region, beleuchtet dieser Beitrag die Situation der in den Forschungsgebieten Ali Adayto und Logia lebenden Afar und ihre täglichen Arbeiten, die zum Überleben beitragen. Aufgrund der ökologischen und ökonomischen Veränderungen sowie der negativen Haltung der Regierung gegenüber den Nomaden, wenden sich immer mehr Nomaden der Sesshaftigkeit zu. Damit einhergehend verändern sich gezwungenermaßen auch Lebensstil und tägliche Tätigkeiten, welche dem Erwerb der Mittel dienen, die zum Leben und Überleben benötigt werden.
