The Afar Community Association in the United Kingdom places on record its deep sense of sorrow at the sad death of our great father of Afar Nation, His Majesty Amoyta Ali Mirah Hanfare. His Majesty, Amoyta Ali Mirah was a man of knowledge, justice, peace and principle, (source of emulation) and great Islamic scholar.

Sultan Ali Mirah was a personality engaged in providing facilities for the promotion of social welfare, economic development, and educational opportunities and relieves of hardships for the Afar and non-Afar speaking peoples throughout the Horn of Africa.

His sincere efforts and personal endowment for serving his people and uplifting the truth led to Ethiopian unity and the creation of the Afar Regional National State in Ethiopia.

Today, the Peoples of the Horn of African States (Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea) have lost a pioneering Afar Sultan, a great leader, honest pursuer of unity, a political leader, a wise scholar excelling in various fields, an honest preacher who provided enlightenment in all fields for the voice of truth to be heard, a great father who with strength and power resolutely confronted global arrogance, Communism, Marxism, Leninism of Derge Regime and conspiracies of the enemies of Afar in particular, and Ethiopia in general.

On the occasion of the sad demise of this heavenly wise leader of Ethiopian people who was always a defender and supporter of the rights and development of the Afar people in all spheres, We, the President of Afar Community Association in UK, on behalf of myself and that on behalf of Afar Community residing in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland convey our sincerest condolences and sympathies to his dear family and the honorable people of Afar Nation in the Horn of Africa and to the Afar Diaspora globally.

We pray to Allah the Almighty to grant great status to the distinguished departed soul.

Abdo Yusef - Chairman, Afar Community Association in UK