Awbere
Coordinates: 9 ° 38 ' N , 43 ° 14' E
Awbere (also Aw Barre , Au Barre ; Amharic አውበሬ Awberē ) is a place in the Jijiga zone of the Somali region of Ethiopia. It is the capital of the woreda Awbere and is located near the border with northern Somalia / Somaliland at an altitude of around 1550 m.
According to the Central Statistics Agency of Ethiopia for 2005, Awbere had 35,977 inhabitants. In 1997, of 24,125 inhabitants, 64.72% were Somali and 34.83% were foreigners from Somalia.
From 1991 to 2001 there was a refugee camp called Teferi Ber nearby . Housed - as well as the warehouse of Derwonaji - especially members of the Gadabursi- you -Clans from northern Somalia, before fighting between the SNM of Isaaq fled -Clans and local militias. The population was initially up to 98,000, in September 1994 it had dropped to around 41,000, as some of the refugees returned after the situation had calmed down and local Somali who had mixed with the refugees were excluded through checks. On June 30, 2001, Derwonaji and Teferi Ber were closed because most of the refugees had returned on their own or through organized return programs.
In 2007, the UNHCR reopened a camp near Awbere to accommodate newly arrived refugees from southern and central Somalia. This camp was named Awbere. Another warehouse was added in 2008 in nearby Sheder .
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- ↑ a b Nordiska Afrikainstitutet: Local History of Ethiopia (PDF)
- ↑ a b Central Statistical Agency : 2005 National Statistics, Section – B Population ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Table B.4 (PDF; 1.8 MB)
- ↑ The 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Volume I: Part I. Statistical Report on Population Size and Characteristics ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 1998 (PDF; 51.8 MB)
- ↑ Guido Ambroso: Pastoral society and transnational refugees: population movements in Somaliland and eastern Ethiopia 1988–2000. New Issues in Refugee Research, Working Paper No. 65 , UNHCR - Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, 2002 (PDF; 492 kB)
- ↑ UNHCR Mid-Year Progress Report 2001 - Ethiopia , September 1, 2001.
- ↑ UNHCR: UNHCR optimistic about meeting water needs of refugees in Ethiopia , April 2, 2009
- ↑ UNHCR Ethiopia National Program: Fact Sheet , May 19, 2008
