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Filtu
Filtu is the capital city of '"Liben Zone"' Filtu (also known as Gindiyeer) is a town in southern Ethiopia. Located in the Liben Zone of the Somali Region, it has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 1252 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Filtu (woreda), Filtu woreda. During the Italian East Africa, Italian occupation, a road 115 kilometers in length to Negele Boran was maintained but not paved."Local History in Ethiopia" The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 20 February 2009) History In October 1964, Filtu was the scene for one of the perennial conflicts between the Borana Oromo, Boran and Guji Oromo and their traditional rivals the Somali. The two Oromo clans attacked the Somali north of the Ganale Dorya River, Gan ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filtu (woreda)
Filtu (also known as Liben) is one of the Districts of Ethiopia, woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Liben Zone, Filtu is bordered on the south by the Dawa River which separates it from Moyale, Somali (woreda), Moyale and Udet (woreda), Udet, on the west by the Oromia Region, on the north and east by the Ganale Dorya River which separates it from the Afder Zone, and on the southeast by Dolo Odo. The major town of this woreda is Filtu. The altitude of this woreda ranges from 200 along the Ganale Dorya, to as high as 1500 meters above sea level. Liben is located at the frontier between the traditional territories of the Somali people, Somali and Oromo peoples living in the southwestern part of Ethiopia. Accordingly, local groups of both Somali and Oromo nationalities have a vested interest in the control of the relatively rich pastoral resources in the district and therefore have been in conflict over its control. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogaden War
The Ogaden War, also known as the Ethio-Somali War (, ), was a military conflict between Somali Democratic Republic, Somalia and derg, Ethiopia fought from July 1977 to March 1978 over control of the sovereignty of the Ogaden region. Somalia Somali invasion of Ogaden, launched an invasion in support of the Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF) insurgency, triggering a broader inter-state war. The intervention drew the disapproval of the Soviet Union, which subsequently withdrew its support for Somalia and backed Ethiopia instead. Derg, Ethiopia was saved from defeat and permanent loss of territory through a massive airlift of military supplies worth $1 billion, the arrival of more than 12,000 Cuban military internationalism, Cuban soldiers and Airman, airmen and 1,500 Soviet Union, Soviet advisors, led by General Vasily Petrov (marshal), Vasily Petrov. On 23 January 1978, Cuba, Cuban Armoured warfare, armored Brigade, brigades inflicted the worst losses the Somali forces had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liben Zone
Liben () is a zone in Somali Region of Ethiopia. Liben is bordered on the south by Kenya, on the northwest by the Oromia Region, on the northeast by Afder, and on the southeast by Somalia's federal state of Jubaland. Towns in Liben zone include Filtu, Gof Bokolmayo, Deka Suftu, and Dolo. Borena National Park covers the southwestern portion of the zone. Demographics Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this Zone has a total population of 539,820 in 2014 of whom 290,850 are men and 248,970 women. While 46,892 or 8.69% are urban inhabitants, a further 258,214 or 47.83% were pastoralists. The largest ethnic group reported in Liban zone was the Somalis (99.55%); all other ethnic groups made up 0.45% of the population. Somali language is spoken as a first language by 99.52%; the remaining 0.48% spoke all other primary languages reported. 98.57% of the population said they were Muslim. There are five refugee camps housing 174 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somali People's Democratic Party
The Somali Democratic Party (SDP; ), formerly the Ethiopian Somali People's Democratic Party, was a political party in Ethiopia, created by the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) after refusing Somali demands for self-determination in 1993. The EPRDF created a surrogate party called the Ethiopian Somali Democratic League which was one of many satellite organisations existing throughout Ethiopia."Ethnic Federalism and the Somali Region under the EPRDF" in ''Ethiopia: Army Commits Executions, Torture, and Rape in Ogaden'', published 11 June 2008 (last accessed 10 December 2008) The organisation was led by Ahmed Shid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidamo Province
Sidamo Province (Amharic: ሲዳሞ) was a province in the southern part of Ethiopia, with its capital city at Irgalem, and after 1978 at Awasa. It was named after an ethnic group native to southern Ethiopia, called the Sidama, who are located in the south-central part of the country. According to the old political division, Sidamo was bordered on the west by Gamu-Gofa, on the north by Shewa, on the north and east by Bale, a small portion on the southeast by Somalia, and on the south by Kenya. History With its extensive coffee plantations, Sidamo was a province with abundant revenues and assigned to its rule were nobles loyal to the Emperor, such as Dejazmach Balcha Safo, who governed it at different times before the Italian occupation. Its largest settlement was Hawassa (Awasa). Following the liberation of Ethiopia from Italy in 1942, the provinces of Borana and Welayta, created from conquered states of that name, were merged into Sidamo. Sidamo was the scene of a re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welmel River
The Welmel is a river of eastern Ethiopia. It is a tributary of the Ganale Dorya River, which in turn is a tributary of the Jubba River. The headwaters of the Welmel are in the Bale Mountains of the Ethiopian Highlands, and it flow southeast for to its mouth. See also *List of rivers of Ethiopia This is a list of streams and rivers in Ethiopia, arranged geographically by drainage basin. There is an alphabetic list at the end of this article. Flowing into the Mediterranean *''Nile (Egypt, Sudan)'' Atbarah River *Mareb River (or G ... References Jubba River Rivers of Ethiopia Ethiopian Highlands {{Ethiopia-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somalis
The Somali people (, Wadaad's writing, Wadaad: , Arabic: ) are a Cushitic peoples, Cushitic ethnic group and nation native to the Somali Peninsula. who share a common ancestry, culture and history. The Lowland East Cushitic languages, East Cushitic Somali language is the shared mother tongue of ethnic Somalis, which is part of the Cushitic languages, Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. They are predominantly Sunni Islam, Sunni Muslim.Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi, ''Culture and Customs of Somalia'', (Greenwood Press: 2001), p.1 Forming one of the largest ethnic groups on the continent, they cover one of the most expansive landmasses by a single ethnic group in Africa. According to most scholars, the ancient Land of Punt and its native inhabitants formed part of the ethnogenesis of the Somali people. This ancient historical kingdom is where a great portion of their cultural traditions and ancestry are said to derive from.Egypt: 3000 Years of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wara Dubie
Wara may refer to: Places * Wara, Poland, a village in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland * Wara, Gifu, a village in Gifu Prefecture, Japan * Ouara, the former capital of the Ouaddai Empire of Chad Languages * Samwe language, or Wara, one language of Burkina Faso * Paleni language, or Wara, another language of Burkina Faso * Upper Morehead language (Wára), a language of Papua New Guinea Other uses * Wara', piety (in ''Arabic''), a concept central to Abrahamic religions * Wära, a defunct experimental currency of 1920s Germany * Wur, also known as Wara or Wara Mamund, a Pashtun tribe of Afghanistan and Pakistan * Wara art, a Japanese craft of making sculptures of rice straw, ''wara'' meaning rice straw in Japanese See also * * WARA (other) * Ouara (other) * Warah, a tehsil in the Qambar Shahdadkot District Qambar Shahdadkot District (, ) is a district of Sindh, Pakistan, originally named after Shahdad Khan Khuhawar, the offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawa River
Dawa or Dawah may refer to: Places China *Dawa, Jilin, in Ningjiang District, Songyuan *Dawa County (大洼县), Panjin, Liaoning *Dawa, Dawa County, Liaoning *Dawa, Changtu County, Liaoning *Dawa Chik, One Month in (Tibetan) Other countries * Dawa River, a river in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia * Dire Dawa, an autonomous city in Ethiopia Other uses *''Dawah'', the act of inviting people to Islam *Dawa (Tibetan phrase), meaning "moon" or "month" *''Al Dawa'', defunct political journal in Egypt *Islamic Dawa Party, an Iraqi conservative political party *Deutsch-Amerikanischen Wirtschafts-Ausschuss, a pro-Nazi group in 1930's USA {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Degodia
The Degoodi or Degodia (, ) is a Somali clan. They are genealogically related to the other Samaale, but in particular to the Garjante, Gaalje'el, Garre, Masare, Isa (Saransor) and 'Awrmale, with which they share the same ancestor Gardhere Samaale. History When Arthur Donaldson Smith traveled through what is now Bare woreda in 1895, he found that the Degodia were neighbors of the Majertein Afgab clan (whom they were at endless war with), their territory stretching east to the Weyib and Dawa Rivers. So far there are 12 Wabars who served the community: 1. Wabar Cuudow 2. Wabar Amiin 3. Wabar Ali 4. Wabar Omar 5. Wabar Caalin 6. Wabar Abdi 7. Wabar Omar 8. Wabar Ali 9. Wabar Hassan 10. Wabar Osman 11. Wabar Abdi 12. Wabar Abdille (incumbent) Clan tree The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology's ''Conflict analysis in Bakool and Bay, South-western Somalia'' (2004) shows the following clan tree for the Degoodi:Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany, Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borena Zone
Borena ( Oromo: ''Boorana'') is a zone in Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Borena is named after one of the two major subgroups of the Oromo people. Borena is bordered on the south by Kenya, on the west by the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, on the north by West Guji and Guji, and on the east by Dawa Zone Somali Region. The highest point in this zone is Mount Dara Tiniro. Cities and major towns in this Zone include Negele Borana, Moyale, Yabelo, Dubuluk, Mega, Millami, Surupa and Bakke. History The Borena Zone was created shortly after the adoption of the 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia and the creation of the Oromia Region. In September 2003, the upland woredas were separated from Borena to create the Guji Zone. Since then many of the remaining woredas have been reorganized to create new ones. This Zone was selected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in 2004 as one of several areas for voluntary resettlement for farmers from overpopu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liben, Guji, Oromia
Liben is one of the woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the East Borana Zone, Liben is bordered on the west by Goro Dola, on the south by Gumi Eldalo, on the north by the Ganale Dorya River which separates it from Meda Welabu, and on the east by the Somali Region. Liben woreda surrounds the town of Negele Borana, which was separated from Liben. Overview The altitude of this woreda ranges from 1120 to 1600 meters above sea level. Rivers include the Awata. State forests include the Genale, Dawa and Hara Kalo. A 2004 survey of the land in this woreda shows that 9.68% is arable or cultivable, 88.5% pasture, 0.93% forest, and the remaining 0.87% is considered swampy, degraded or otherwise unusable. Cereals include corn, wheat, teff, barley and sorghum; sugar cane, banana and papaya are other important crops. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
