Guradamole, Somali (woreda)

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Guradamole is one of the woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. [1] Part of Guradamole is bounded on the south by the Ganale Dorya River which separates it from the Liben Zone, on the west by Kersa Dula, on the north by the Oromia Region, and on the east by Goro Bekeksa. Towns in this woreda include Haro Dibe and Qundi.

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Overview

The altitude of this woreda ranges from 200 to 1500 meters above sea level. The other perennial river in Gurradamole is Ganale or Ganaane Dorya, Mena River, Dumal and webi'elan. Gurradamole has very green highlands. As of 2008, this woreda has no all-weather gravel road or any community roads; about 12.3% of the total population has access to drinking water. [2]

In October 2004, a referendum was held in about 420 kebeles in 12 woredas across five zones of the Somali Region to settle the boundary between the Oromo Region and the adjacent Somali Region. According to the official results of the referendum, about 80% of the disputed areas fell under Oromo administration, though there were numerous allegations of voting irregularities in many of them. [3] The results led over the following weeks to minorities settled in these kebeles being pressured to leave. There were reports in February 2005 that an estimated 5,450 people expelled from Bale Zone in the Oromia Region as a result of the referendum had newly relocated to Harardubo. [4] By April the number of refugees had swollen to 10,000–15,000 living in four camps. [5]

Demographics

Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 79,841, of whom 41,255 are men and 28,586 women. While 967 or 4.87% are urban inhabitants, a further 14,074 or 70.93% are pastoralists. 99.5% of the population are Muslim. [6] This woreda is primarily inhabited by the Dir clan Gurra of the Somali people.

The 1997 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 3,090, of whom 1,375 were men and 1,715 were women; the census identified no urban inhabitants. (This total consists of an estimate for the inhabitants of all three rural kebeles in this woreda, which were not counted.) [7]

Notes

  1. ↑ Komatsu, Goro; Brantingham, P.Jeffrey; Olsen, John W; Baker, Victor R (August 2001). "Paleoshoreline geomorphology of Böön Tsagaan Nuur, Tsagaan Nuur and Orog Nuur: the Valley of Lakes, Mongolia". Geomorphology. 39 (3–4): 83–98. doi:10.1016/s0169-555x(00)00095-7. ISSN   0169-555X.
  2. ↑ Hailu Ejara Kene, Baseline Survey of 55 Weredas of PCDP Phase II, Part I Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine (Addis Ababa: August 2008), Annexes 16, 17
  3. ↑ "Somali-Oromo border referendum of December 2004" Archived 2009-04-30 at the Wayback Machine , Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre website (accessed 11 February 2009)
  4. ↑ "Relief Bulletin: 21 February 2005", UN-OCHA-Ethiopia (accessed 26 February 2009)
  5. ↑ "Relief Bulletin: 11 April 2005", UN-OCHA-Ethiopia (accessed 26 February 2009)
  6. ↑ Census 2007 Tables: Somali Region Archived 2012-03-10 at the Wayback Machine , Tables 2.1, 2.4, 3.1 and 3.4.
  7. ↑ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1 Archived 2008-11-19 at the Wayback Machine , Tables 2.1, 2.7. The results of the 1994 census in the Somali Region were not satisfactory, so the census was repeated in 1997.

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