Original sentence: Afar is one of the cradles of humanity, as Lucy, the fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarensis, was found here.Another  view from space.It is one of two places on Earth where a mid-ocean ridge can be studied on land, the other being Iceland.The Afar Depression is in the Horn of Africa, where it overlaps Eritrea, the Afar Region of Ethiopia, and Djibouti
Edited sentence: Afar is in the elbow of Africa.Afar is one of the cradles of humanity.The nations here are: Eritrea (4,500,000), Ethiopia (73,000,000), and Djibouti (500,000) share jurisdiction over this mostly wild land.This is one of two places on Earth where a mid-ocean ridge can be studied on land, the other being Iceland.This is the land of Lucy, the fine specimen of Australopithecus afarensis from Ethiopia.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/img_afar_region.html Another nice view from space.http:www