Erer

Erer is a town in central Ethiopia. Located in the Shinile Zone of the Somali Region, it is located 51km east of Shinile. It is the administrative center of Erer woreda.

Erer
Erer
Location within Ethiopia
Coordinates: 9°34′N 41°23′E
CountryEthiopia
RegionSomali Region
ZoneShinile
WoredaErer
Elevation
1,107 m (3,632 ft)
Population
 (2018)
 • Total649,000
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)

Overview

Erer has had telephone service at least as early as 1967. Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of a primary school in Bentu Liben during the year 1968.[1] Erer is served by a station on the Addis Ababa - Djibouti Railway.

W.C. Barker recorded in 1842 that Erer was a usual stopping-point for caravans moving between Djibouti and Dire dawa, citing the words of an acquaintance who described the location as "a place at the foot of the Oromo people hills, where there is a wadi with excellent water." As to the inhabitants, Barker notes that north of Erer dwelled the Gurgura, "who are Mahomedans", and subject to the Issa Somali; to the south were the Argobba; and to the east were the Nole and Ala Oromo, "occupying the N[orth] and the S[outh] side of the road to Harrar."[2]

Erer was historically an Afar land.in july 23,1964 ,invaded by Issa milicia and somalian army ( hanooldo) more than thousand afar civilians were massacred in Erer. Thousand Afars had to live their homeland and pushed to exil. Errr,Mullu,Afdem all Afar historical are since occipied by issa clan. During the Oromo-TPLF Somali clashes the Somalis with the support of the TPLF had evicted hundreds of thousands of oromos from there homeland in the Somali region. In 2005 the Somali regional government had massacred almost 800 Oromos in Erer.[3] since the ruling government was supporting the Somalian regional state nothing was done by the federal government

Demographics

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia published in 2007, Erer has an estimated total population of 7,490 of whom 3,797 are men and 3,693 women.[4] The 1997 census reported this town had a total population of 5,027 of whom 2,509 were men and 2,518 women. The four largest ethnic groups reported in this town were the Somali (38.07%), the Oromo (33.1%), the Amhara (21.24%), and the Gurage (4.97%); all other ethnic groups made up the remaining 2.71% of the residents.[5]

See also

References
  1. "Local History in Ethiopia" The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 15 January 2009)
  2. Barker, "Extract Report on the Probable Geographical Position of Harrar; With Some Information Relative to the Various Tribes in the Vicinity", Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 12 (1842), pp. 238-244
  3. State, United States Department of (2006). Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2005: Report Submitted to the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  4. CSA 2005 National Statistics Archived November 13, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Table B.4
  5. 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1 Archived November 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Tables 2.4, 2.14 (accessed 10 January 2009). The results of the 1994 census in the Somali Region were not satisfactory, so the census was repeated in 1997.
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