Dire Dawa Autonomous Region

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The Dire Dawa Autonomous Region existed 1987-1991 as an autonomous region in Ethiopia . They included the economically important city Dire Dawa on the railway line from Addis Ababa to Djibouti City and was predominantly of the Issa inhabited, a clan of Somaliland .

history

With the constitution of 1987, which made Ethiopia the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia , the administrative structure of Ethiopia was also reformed and the Dire Dawa Autonomous Region was created as one of five autonomous regions. This area had previously been part of Hararghe Province .

With the establishment of the autonomous regions, the Mengistu regime tried to respond to the uprisings and independence movements in different parts of the country. The creation of the autonomous region of Dire Dawa was directed primarily against Somalia's claims to the Ogaden area ; Similar to the Autonomous Region of Assab (with the port of Assab , which should no longer belong to Eritrea ), the region comprised an economic center that was administratively separated from the rest of the Ogaden. As a relatively small ethnic group, the Issa were given autonomous status in order to integrate them on the side of the Ethiopian government. The Ogadeni clan, which supported the connection to a Greater Somalia particularly strongly , only received autonomy in a small sub-area (the autonomous region of Ogaden ), further sub-areas became the new provinces of East and West Hararghe.

After 1991, most of the Dire Dawa Autonomous Region was assigned to the Somali region . The city of Dire Dawa itself, which was claimed by both the Somali region and Oromia , became an independent city.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kathrin Eikenberg: Ethiopia , in: Jens Siegelberg (ed.): The wars 1985 to 1990: Analysis of their causes , wars and militant conflicts, Vol. 2, Münster 1991, ISBN 978-3-88660-757-0 (p. 192 )
  2. ↑ Edmond J. Keller: Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic , Indiana University Press, 1991, ISBN 9780253206466 (pp. 242f.)
  3. ↑ Christopher Clapham: Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia , African Studies 61, 1990, ISBN 9780521396509 (pp. 252f.)