Itang
Coordinates: 8 ° 12 ' N , 34 ° 16' E
Itang (also written Etang , Ethiopian script : ኢታንግ ) is a village in the Gambela region in western Ethiopia . Within Gambela it belongs to the woreda Itang of the same name , which is located in Administrative Zone 1 or - according to more recent documents from the Central Statistics Agency of Ethiopia - forms its own zone .
population
According to the Central Statistics Agency for 2005, Itang had 3,601 inhabitants.
In 1994, of 2,106 inhabitants, 53.7% were Anuak , 28.54% Nuer , 6.79% Oromo , 6.41% Amharen and 1.57% Tigray ; 3% belonged to other ethnic groups. 73.46% were Protestants, 15.67% Ethiopian Orthodox , 2.85% Muslim, 2.23% followers of traditional religions and 1.66% Catholics.
history
In the Anglo-Ethiopian treaty of 1902, which established the border between Ethiopia and Sudan , Menelik II agreed to the establishment of a British trading enclave in the Itang area. As a colonial power of Sudan, Great Britain was interested in trading with Ethiopia via the Nile tributary, the Baro . Itang's too great distance from the Ethiopian highlands was probably the main reason why Great Britain made Gambela, further upstream, a trading post instead of Itang in 1904 .
In the 1980s, the civil war in South Sudan brought numerous Sudanese refugees to the region, and the Itang refugee camp was at times the largest in the world.
In July 2002, after disputes between an Anuak police officer and a local Nuer politician, fighting broke out between ethnic groups, with political conflicts over the succession of the late Nuer vice-president of the Gambela region playing an important role. More than 50 people were killed and around 500 houses burned in the Anuak district in these fights, in which police officers, officials, students and local residents took part. The so-called "Itang crisis" also spread to Gambela town and some refugee camps.
swell
- ↑ a b Central Statistics Agency (CSA): Summary and Statistical Report of the 2007 Population and Housing Census Results ( Memento of March 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.7 MB), p. 81
- ↑ a b c CSA: 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: The 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Gambella Region: Volume I Statistical Report ( Memento of the original dated November 19, 2008 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. (PDF; 47.1 MB), 1995 (pp. 36, 51)
- ↑ Bahru Zewde: An Overview and Assessment of Gambella Trade (1904-1935) , in: International Journal of African Historical Studies , Vol. 20/1, 1987, pp. 75-94
- ^ John Young: Along Ethiopia's Western Frontier: Gambella and Benishangul in Transition , in: The Journal of Modern African Studies , Vol. 37/2, June 1999 (pp. 321–346)
- ↑ Chan Gatkuoth: Gambella Conflicts: The Role of the Government , in: Wolbert CG Smidt: Discussing conflict in Ethiopia. Conflict Management and Resolution: Proceedings of the Conference "Ethiopian and German Contributions to Conflict Management and Resolution", Addis Ababa, 11 to 12 November 2005 , African Studies 32, 2007, ISBN 9783825897956 (p. 161)
