Shilabo
Coordinates: 6 ° 6 ' N , 44 ° 46' E
Shilabo ( Somali Shilaabo ; also Shilavo , Shelabo , Shilabe , Scillave , Chilabo , Ethiopian ሸላቦ) is a place in the Korahe zone of the Somali region in Ethiopia . It is the capital of the woreda Shilabo of the same name .
According to the Central Statistics Agency of Ethiopia for 2005, Shilabo had 7,239 inhabitants. In 1997, 98.95% of the 4,853 inhabitants were Somali and 51 were from other ethnic groups.
history
Siad Barre , the president and dictator of Somalia from 1969 to 1991, may have been born in Shilabo and gave Garbahaarrey in the southern Somali region of Gedo as his place of birth in order to join the colonial police of Italian Somaliland .
After the Ogaden War of 1977/78, Shilabo initially remained under the control of Somali troops, as did Mustahil , Geladin , Ferfer and other places.
In 1982 soldiers from the Somali army and guerrillas from the Somalia-backed Western Somali Liberation Front attacked an Ethiopian army unit near Shilabo. Then the Ethiopian army and the SSDF occupied the border towns of Balanbale and Galdogob on Somali territory.
politics
Since 2007 the conflict between the separatist Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and the Ethiopian army has intensified in the Somali region , Shilabo is one of the affected areas. Human Rights Watch said prisoners were ill-treated and extrajudicially executed at the Shilabo military base, and women were raped by soldiers there. In the surrounding area, villages were forcibly evacuated and some of them burned down afterwards.
Economy and Infrastructure
A road connects Shilabo with Kebri Dehar , and Shilabo also has an airport. The place has very limited telephone connections and a clinic. There is a primary school and a secondary school. The Shilabo market is linked to that of Degehabur , as well as the Boosaaso , Burao and Beledweyne markets in Somalia . The people in the area are mostly nomads who make their living by raising camels and cattle. The natural gas fields of Calub and Hilala are located in the woreda Shilabo.
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- ↑ Nordiska Afrikainstitutet: Local History in Ethiopia (PDF)
- ↑ 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), p. 74
- ↑ David D. Laitin, Said Samatar : Somalia: Nation in Search of a State , Westview Press 1987, p. 79
- ^ Gebru Tareke: The Ethiopia-Somalia War of 1977 Revisited , in: International Journal of African Historical Studies 33, 2002 (p. 660)
- ^ Federal Research Division: Somalia. A Country Study , ISBN 978-1-4191-4799-9 , pp. 222f.
- ↑ Human Rights Watch: Collective Punishment - War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in the Ogaden area of Ethiopia's Somali Region , 2008
- ^ Save the Children / Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency: Agropastoralists under the threat of ecological and economic changes. Korahe Agropastoral Livelihood Zone ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 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; 1.5 MB), 2004
- ↑ Tobias Hagmann: Challenges of decentralization in Ethiopia's Somali Region ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 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. , Briefing for Review of African Political Economy Vol. 32, No. 103, 2005 (PDF; 748 kB), p. 3
