The Danakil Depression : Salt mining in one of the hottest places on earth

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  • Опубліковано 28 кві 2017
  • At more than 100 metres below sea level and with temperatures that often reach higher than 50 degrees Celsius, Ethiopia's Danakil Depression is one of the most inhospitable places on earth.
    Al Jazeera’s Charles Straford reports on the Depression's salt trade.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 91

  • @nebilumer5293
    @nebilumer5293 4 роки тому +23

    my beloved ppl of afar ❤
    May allah protect you inshallah hope i will go back to home soon 🇪🇹

  • @weleshmahary3403
    @weleshmahary3403 6 років тому +20

    Aljezira since You went right there, you could have documented more, because there is more beauty down there ( the volcano, the green and yellow mounts.

  • @skyworks1621
    @skyworks1621 7 років тому +39

    Still better than being a street beging man in Europe. These are good tough people.

    • @thegreatnormad3424
      @thegreatnormad3424 7 років тому +4

      sky works that's right

    • @crashpal
      @crashpal 6 років тому +2

      man I wish I could FedEx all the snow that is falling around my house

    • @jackaguirre8576
      @jackaguirre8576 4 роки тому +2

      They don't get paid enough

  • @kivakarmen8628
    @kivakarmen8628 6 років тому +18

    i hope a salt processing plant does not come. The Afar are mining in an environmental friendly way.

  • @anukkuttappan2370
    @anukkuttappan2370 3 роки тому +9

    Salute to santhosh George kulangara Kerala India,he is inspired me to watch this vedio

  • @Faithful19681
    @Faithful19681 5 років тому +10

    God helps those who help themselves.

  • @constellations_0
    @constellations_0 2 роки тому +3

    Imagine getting 7 dollars out of the 150 slabs of salt you mine. That’s really unfair

  • @triphabesha
    @triphabesha 11 місяців тому

    wow thanks Al jazeera its amazing the white gold is found in habesha, Afar region❤❤❤

  • @musaukachimba9757
    @musaukachimba9757 7 років тому +5

    This is so humbling eish :(

  • @nadiayaqup4157
    @nadiayaqup4157 3 роки тому +4

    Yeap, but those camels 🐫 stay hungry for long time because there is no grass in ther, so sad 😢 😞

  • @Xenon-4300
    @Xenon-4300 7 років тому +7

    Not only is it hot, but it's also very humid with dew points into the 80s at times. This is THE most extreme hot climate on earth, no one should ever have to live and work in that.

  • @summerwulsebo6147
    @summerwulsebo6147 5 років тому +3

    tough time never last but tough people will do.That is for Afar people . Bad government do nothing for it's people.

  • @cybergk9243
    @cybergk9243 4 роки тому

    good

  • @hamadsadoun
    @hamadsadoun 6 років тому +5

    Magnificent... I like those people

  • @laxmivln6264
    @laxmivln6264 2 роки тому +1

    చాలా బాగుంది

  • @jesusharvestlife
    @jesusharvestlife Рік тому +1

    Instead of avoiding salt as we’ve been told, I began to use it as the beneficial supplement that God intended. Salt possibly the least appreciated essential element for LIFE

  • @benyahudi1233
    @benyahudi1233 5 років тому +1

    These Afar people are Yemeni Arabs mostly Sabean, their very fierce , nomadic and warlike and lives in a hot desert.

    • @afarrobito8601
      @afarrobito8601 5 років тому +11

      We are not Yemeni bro. In fact we are native African of Cush family.

    • @benyahudi1233
      @benyahudi1233 5 років тому

      @@afarrobito8601 but Afars carry J1 haplogroup

    • @afarrobito8601
      @afarrobito8601 5 років тому +1

      There is been interracial marriage between Yemenis and afar plus now day Yemen was part of our empire.

    • @bircruz555
      @bircruz555 4 роки тому

      None sense. You just pull it from your derrier cavity?

    • @mophie1374
      @mophie1374 4 роки тому +5

      @@benyahudi1233 nah, dude we are descendants of the Cushitic Family, as afar robito said . We are not Yemeni and pls don't associate our strength coming from having a Yemeni gene .

  • @mustafasultanov9299
    @mustafasultanov9299 4 роки тому +1

    Tikhon lox

  • @xkhalilx5551
    @xkhalilx5551 Рік тому

    I’d probably try to craft a carriage or something

  • @nhattyponpe3280
    @nhattyponpe3280 4 роки тому +2

    That's. In Ethiopa

  • @billbellamy9614
    @billbellamy9614 7 років тому +17

    the Afar are relatives of the ancient Egyptians.

    • @enlightedenlightment1065
      @enlightedenlightment1065 7 років тому +6

      Similar genetics and culture.

    • @tomrice6346
      @tomrice6346 7 років тому

      Actually Somalis would be more the relatives of the ancient Egyptians if you consider the Haplogroup E1b1b1.This Haplogroup originated in the horn of Africa and spread to North Africa and Southern Europe and the people who carry that marker the most are the Somalis therefore making them more likely of all the cushitic people to have been the ancestors of the ancient Egyptians.
      www.thegeneticatlas.com/E1b1b1_Y-DNA.htm

    • @tisFrancesfault
      @tisFrancesfault 7 років тому

      Thomas Jackson no, aborigines were driven away, and slavery was illegal by the time of serious settlements. it was settled almost exclusively with white British, many prisoners.

    • @afarrobito8601
      @afarrobito8601 5 років тому +2

      You are right bro. Ancient Egyptian were descended from afar. No doubts just need more scavetion.

    • @mophie1374
      @mophie1374 4 роки тому +3

      We are descendants of the Cushitic family and when you say Egyptian if you mean the Nubian then maybe but not Arab Egyptians.

  • @eritreainna7213
    @eritreainna7213 6 років тому +3

    Ani hay afar pple

  • @samsheppard8265
    @samsheppard8265 Рік тому

    Lake tana

  • @aservantsoftheownerofdeath3952
    @aservantsoftheownerofdeath3952 7 років тому +2

    T_T i hope they get proper paids

  • @samt6601
    @samt6601 7 років тому +4

    Too sad the Ethiopian government gave the mining right to rich American making all these hardworking people beggars while ppl in government become rich.

    • @samt6601
      @samt6601 7 років тому

      May be you are being sarcastic. Thousands of Afar ppl live off by selling the slat, how many ppl the Chines or Americans will hire to extract the salt?

    • @sssssss6361
      @sssssss6361 7 років тому +1

      Sam T, you are so right. Ethiopia is currently under emergency military rule because people all over the country revolted over the corruption and brutality of the minority TPLF regime. Corrupt government officials appropriate huge swath of land and give to private companies in return for bribe money. The people are tired of getting shafted over and over again.

  • @i_nameless_i-jgsdf
    @i_nameless_i-jgsdf 7 років тому +6

    What a salty video

  • @hodanmohamud9880
    @hodanmohamud9880 3 роки тому

    i cry one Ethiopia move please stay sexual pregant like stay like bed home Africa

  • @Private-Citizen1
    @Private-Citizen1 7 років тому +5

    Power of Melanin

  • @rai.6285
    @rai.6285 3 роки тому

    why do these people struggle when the rest of the world could help them become more modern

  • @ramatgan1
    @ramatgan1 7 років тому +1

    They are Somalis. Hard working people.

    • @nebyeelda5862
      @nebyeelda5862 4 роки тому

      They are not Afars they are Tigrians.

    • @user-or4jp4ot5t
      @user-or4jp4ot5t 4 роки тому +11

      no They are Afar people, Somali people are lazy, Afar people are amazing.

    • @yesufabdulhakim9326
      @yesufabdulhakim9326 3 роки тому +4

      Afar peope not somali

    • @teddyissak2720
      @teddyissak2720 3 роки тому +2

      Nah....there far from being a Somali. There is nothing in common between Afars and Somalis.

    • @acea1184
      @acea1184 3 роки тому

      I think they are Tigrayans

  • @crayon1202
    @crayon1202 7 років тому +1

    yo! dey WUZZINT KANGS,,, DAY IZ KANGZ FAM SHIEEEEET

    • @tellingfoxtales
      @tellingfoxtales 7 років тому +5

      No, they're just people trying to make a living, you know nothing of working as hard as they do.

    • @enlightedenlightment1065
      @enlightedenlightment1065 7 років тому +2

      Dumb 4chan Jizzed-Skin Meme

    • @user-mq6qv6bi2g
      @user-mq6qv6bi2g 3 роки тому +2

      They were kings, what are talking about. This people are the direct descendants of Ancient Egyptians. They have built giant pyramids back when your ancestors were rolling in muds

  • @CulturedWhiteBoy
    @CulturedWhiteBoy 7 років тому

    After thousands of years, these people are still having to walk for a week? Funny stuff.

    • @CulturedWhiteBoy
      @CulturedWhiteBoy 7 років тому

      Anudeep AP I am saying that it's ridiculous that after thousands of years that these people are still stuck in the stone age. Look at the civilized world and look at all that has been done in the last hundred years, then look at these people who have been there for thousands of years and there's no progress been made into the 21st century.

    • @tellingfoxtales
      @tellingfoxtales 7 років тому +10

      Look at your own achievements, realise there are none, and then thank better men than yourself for all the achievements you enjoy but contribute nothing towards.

    • @CulturedWhiteBoy
      @CulturedWhiteBoy 7 років тому

      Griez Mann You wouldn't remember what happened to you if you acted like a tough guy to my face.

    • @nanogrong708
      @nanogrong708 7 років тому

      painful to realize ryt?..tough guy.

    • @nanogrong708
      @nanogrong708 7 років тому

      yea again i respect how yu think sir...

  • @tngirl341
    @tngirl341 Рік тому

    I feel sorry for the camels not the people