The devastating war in northern Ethiopia between the government and Tigray forces that began in November 2020 and ended with a peace deal brokered in Pretoria in November 2022 has had far-reaching effects in Tigray’s neighboring region of Afar. Conflict in that region first erupted in the south in mid-2021, with regional troops fighting alongside federal government forces. Fighting in northern Afar began predominantly in December 2021, when the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) invaded, and continued until mid-2022 (The Guardian, 2022). Over the course of the war, it is estimated that 300,000 people in Afar were displaced and hundreds killed or injured (Deutsche Welle, 2022; Gerth-Niculescu, 2022).