Gode (Ethiopia)
Coordinates: 5 ° 57 ' N , 43 ° 27' E
Gode ( Somali Godey , Ge'ez ጎዴ) is a city in the Somali region of Ethiopia . It is the capital of Gode Zone , located in the territory of Somaliland from the communities of Ogadeni- Darod the river Shabelle .
According to the Central Statistics Agency of Ethiopia for 2005, Gode had 68,342 inhabitants. In 1997, of 45,755 residents, 95.6% were Somali and 2.7% were Amhars .
history
One of the largest garrisons in Ethiopia was stationed in Gode . At the time of Haile Selassie , a modern air force base was built with the support of the USA in order to extend the range of the Ethiopian Air Force to Somalia . The neighboring country posed a threat to Ethiopia as it claimed the Somali territories in Ethiopia as part of a greater Somalia .
Under the communist Derg regime, which ruled after the fall of Haile Selassie from 1974 to 1991, a 3,000 hectare cotton farm and a dam on the Shabelle were built near Gode for irrigation and electricity generation.
Towards the end of June 1977 the Somalia-sponsored Western Somali Liberation Front ( WSLF), supported by Somali soldiers, fired mortars and rockets into the cities of Gode, Degehabur , Dire Dawa , Kebridehar and Warder . This offensive failed, however, and up to 300 of the rebels are said to have died at Gode alone. After the start of the actual Ogaden War , the Somali army and the WSLF took Gode in late July 1977, with the Ethiopian troops suffering heavy losses.
Capital of the Somali region 1992–1995
After the reorganization of the administrative structure of Ethiopia and thus the establishment of the Somali region in 1991, the Somali initially wanted to make Dire Dawa the regional capital in 1992 . The regional parliament, dominated by the Ogaden National Liberation Front ONLF or the Ogadeni clan, however, received instructions from the EPRDF central government to choose another city, because the Oromia region also claimed Dire Dawa (which ultimately became an independent city). The Ogadeni then pushed through that Gode became the capital, although it is difficult to reach and rather small. This decision caused displeasure among the non-Ogadeni clans. The Ethiopian Somali Democratic League , a coalition of non-Ogadeni, which won the elections in 1995 with the support of the EPRDF and replaced the ONLF, made the more northerly and better developed Jijiga the new capital as one of its first government acts . Some Ogadeni would like to make Gode the regional capital again.
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- ↑ 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; 1.7 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. (PDF file; 49.4 MB), 1998
- ^ A b John Markakis: Briefing: Somalia in the New Political Order of Ethiopia , in: Review of African Political Economy , Vol. 21, No. 59 (March 1994), pp. 71-79, 1994
- ^ Gebru Tareke: The Ethiopia-Somalia War of 1977 Revisited , in: International Journal of African Historical Studies 33, 2002
- ↑ Abdi Ismail Samatar: Ethiopian Federalism: Autonomy versus Control in the Somali Region , in: Third World Quarterly , Vol. 25/6, 2004 (pp. 1138, 1141)
- ↑ Tobias Hagmann: Tricks of Ethiopian Federalism , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , 2003
