Moyale

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Moyale ( Oromo : Mooyalee , Amharic ሞያሌ ) is a small town on the border between Kenya and Ethiopia . It is between the Oromia region of Ethiopia and the Marsabit County divided , a dry riverbed separating the Ethiopian and the Kenyan part.

population

According to figures from the Central Statistics Agency, there were 25,038 inhabitants (13,665 men and 11,373 women) in the Ethiopian part of the city for 2005. According to a 1994 survey, the five largest ethnic groups in Moyale were Oromo (around 38%), Burji (17%), Amhara (16.5%), Wolaytta (4.8%) and Silt'e (4.3%) , smaller groups together made up 19.7%. The mother tongue was Oromo for 49.5% of the population , Amharic for 21.8% , Burji for 10% , Wolaytta for 4% and Silt'e for 3.6% ; 11.2% had a different mother tongue. According to the 1999 census, the Kenyan part had 13,944 inhabitants.

history

1905 sent Sir John Harrington a Greek named Zaphiro at border posts Fort Harrington of British East Africa . The British colonial power ended the further advance of Ethiopia south. She also granted refuge to Oromo and Gabbra , who fled to British territory from Ethiopian rule.

The place became an important trading center between the Borana- Oromo area (an important cattle breeding area) and other Ethiopian areas on the one hand and British East Africa on the other hand, to which the port of Kismayo belonged until 1925 .

During World War II, Fascist Italy, which was occupying Ethiopia, attacked the King's African Rifles stationed at Fort Harrington in 1940 . They first had to leave the fort in order to take it again with reinforcements from the south.

More recently there have been tensions between Ethiopia and Kenya. Ethiopia accuses the Kenyan side of harboring fighters from the separatist Oromo liberation front . For its part, Kenya has accused Ethiopia of illegally sending security forces across the border. In 1999 an imam suspected of being a sympathizer of the OLF was shot dead in the Kenyan district. Then there were demonstrations. Many refugees live in both parts of Moyale as a result of the conflicts in the region.

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  1. ↑ a b c d Mulatu Wubach: Moyale , in: Siegbert Uhlig (Ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica , Volume 3, 2008, ISBN 978-3447056076
  2. ↑ Central Statistical Agency: SECTION-B POPULATION ( Memento of February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.8 MB), Table B.4
  3. ↑ CSA: 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Oromia Region, Vol. 1, part 1 (PDF; 110 MB), Tables 2.1, 2.3, 2.14, 2.17 (accessed April 6, 2009)
  4. ↑ bevölkerungsstatistik.de ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ George L. Simpson: Frontier Banditry and the Colonial Decision-Making Process: The East Africa Protectorate's Northern Borderland prior to the First World War , in: The International Journal of African Historical Studies , Vol. 29/2, 1996, p. 279 -308
  6. ↑ Paolo Tablino: The Gabra: camel nomads of northern Kenya , Paulines Publications Africa, Revised Edition 1999, ISBN 9789966214386 (p. 230)
  7. ↑ UN-OCHA: Horn of Africa, Monthly Review, December '98 -January '99 ( Memento of February 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on November 1, 2009)

Coordinates: 3 ° 32 '  N , 39 ° 3'  E