web Officials and pastoralists assure me that there are fewer conflicts now, but most of the men had Kalashnikovs slung over their shoulders. "An Afar wears a Kalashnikov like he wears clothes - it is part of his culture," said one of the pastoralists. Keloyta's AK-47 rests against his ari. A by the Institute for Security Studies, an African think-tank, cited sources saying that 20 to 25 percent of adult Afars in Ethiopia own light arms, "and communities that live close to the Issa are...
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