Hanle

This article covers the plain in Djibouti. For the German physicist see Wilhelm Hanle and Hanle-Effekt .

Hanle ( Afar Ḥanlé , plain "of the milk" ( ḥan ), "who has milk") is the name of a plain northwest of Dikhil in Djibouti .

The plain has underground water sources fed by the Awash River and therefore has some potential for agropastoralism . However, overgrazing has led to desertification .

The plain is inhabited by the Afar clans of the 'Adorásu / Debné (' Adohyammára) and the Ulu'tó ('Asahyammára). It is traditionally claimed by the Sultanate of Awsa , which is why there have been various conflicts between the 'Asahyammára-Afar of Awsa and the Debné or the colonial power of France. The Sultan of Awsa protested when France set up the Dikhil border post in 1928. However, Awsa's resistance could not prevent France from expanding its power over the Hanle in the following years.

Since the border between the French colonial area and the Awsa, allied with Ethiopia , was not precisely defined, Italy occupied parts of the Hanle as part of its occupation of Ethiopia from 1936–1941. In 1956 the border between France and Ethiopia was agreed.

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• Daoud Aboubaker Alwan, Yohanis Mibrathu: Hanle , in: Historical Dictionary of Djibouti , Scarecrow Press 2000, ISBN 978-0810838734
• Didier Morin: Dikhil and Ḥanlé , in: Dictionnaire historique afar (1288-1982) , Karthala Editions 2004