El Kere
Coordinates: 5 ° 50 ' N , 42 ° 6' E
El Kere (also Elkere , Elekere , Kere , Elkare , El Karre or El Carre ) is a village in the Afder zone of the Somali region of Ethiopia . It is the capital of the woreda Elekere .
El Kere lies between the Shabelle and Webi Gestro (Weyb) rivers at an altitude of around 1000 m, at the end of the sedimentary plates of the Bale Mountains. The place is inhabited by sedentary Oromo and was created near watering holes ( called Ceel in Somali ), which are used by the Somali cattle breeders, who allow their animals to graze in the bushy surroundings.
In the Ogaden War , El Kere, like large parts of the southern Ogaden , was taken by Somali troops at the end of July / beginning of August 1977 with practically no resistance . The Somali battalion that had been sent against El Kere was able to march on unhindered to Fiq . On March 17, 1978, El Kere was recaptured by the twelfth division of the Ethiopian army , bringing the south of Ogaden back under Ethiopian control.
In 1984 El Kere became the capital of the Awrajja (district) El Kere within the province of Bale . With the reorganization of the administrative structure of Ethiopia in 1991, the Somali-inhabited eastern part of Bale, which roughly corresponds to Awrajja El Kere, became the Afder zone of the Somali region, and El Kere became the capital of the woreda of the same name in this zone. The place is on the road from Imi to Dolo and has a market and local administration facilities. A garrison of the Ethiopian army is stationed in the strategically located place.
According to the Central Statistics Agency of Ethiopia for 2005, El Kere had 1,527 inhabitants. In 1997, according to the census of 1023 inhabitants, 75 were Oromo and 15 Somali , one inhabitant was Amhare , 932 belonged to other ethnic groups.
Individual evidence
- ^ The Nordic Africa Institute: Local History in Ethiopia
- ↑ Save the Children / Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency: Afder Pastoral Livelihood Zone ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2001 (PDF; 1.3 MB)
- ↑ a b Alain Gascon: El Käre , in: Siegbert Uhlig (Ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica , Volume 2, 2005, ISBN 978-3447052382
- ^ A b Gebru Tareke: The Ethiopia-Somalia War of 1977 Revisited , in: International Journal of African Historical Studies 33, 2002
- ↑ Alex de Waal, Africa Watch: Evil Days. 30 Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia , 1991 (p. 76)
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ CSA: 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1 ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 1998 (PDF; 51.8 MB), p. 75
