PEOPLE GROUP OF THE WEEK

Afar of Eritrea

The Afar of Eritrea, numbering 359,000 are Unengaged and Unreached with < 0.1% Evangelical believers. They are a Cushitic ethnic group indigenous to the Horn of Africa, living primarily in Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Eritrea. They speak the Afar language, an East Cushitic language within the Afroasiatic family, and are predominantly Sunni Muslim. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Afar is their primary language.