Somalia (region)

Until 1992, the administrative center of the region was the city of Kebri Dahar, however, the capital was moved to Gode . In 1994, for political and strategic reasons, she was again transferred to Jijiga.

At the end of 2005, about 100 people died as a result of the flood, and 100,000 local residents were affected. The flood also destroyed housing for 25,000 Somali refugees in Kenya. ^[1]

It borders with the state of Somalia in the southeast and northeast, with Kenya in the southwest, with the Ethiopian regions of Oromia , Afar and Dyre Daua in the west. The region occupies a significant part of the territory of the historical Ogaden region , where until 1995 the province of Härge was located.

According to the 2007 census, the population of the region is 4,445,219 people, of which 2,472,490 are men and 1,972,729 are women. The urban population is 623,004 people (14.02%). The average population density is 15.9 people / km². There are 685,986 individual farms in the region, so on average 6.8 people per farm (6 in urban areas and 6.5 in rural areas).

Ethnic composition: Somalis (97.2%), Oromo (0.46%), Amhara (0.66%), Gurage (0.12%). The most common language is Somali ; it is native to 96.82% of the population. 0.51% of the population named Oromo as their native language, 0.92% - Amharic . Muslims make up 98.4%; Orthodox Christians - 0.6%; representatives of other religions - about 1% ^[2] .

In the region there were 8 refugee camps and 1 transit center, in which there were 212,967 refugees from Somalia ^[3] .

According to a 1994 census, the population of the region totaled 3,439,860, of which 1,875,996 were men and 1,563,864 were women. The urban population was 492,710 people. The ethnic composition of the population at that time was as follows: Somalis (96.23%); Oromo (2.25%); Amhara (0.69%) and gurage (0.14%). 95.9% of the population considered Somali as their mother tongue; 2.24% - Oromo and 0.92% - Amharic. 98.7% of the population professed Islam; 0.9% - Orthodoxy and 0.3% - other religions ^[4] .

According to the CSA for 2004, only 38.98% of the population have access to clean drinking water (21.32% in rural areas and 77.21% in cities) ^[5] . The quality of life in the region remains extremely low. Literacy is only 22% for men and 9.8% for women. Infant mortality is 57 per 1000 births, which is, however, lower than the national average of 77 per 1000 births. More than half of these deaths occur in the first month of an infant's life ^[6] .

Administratively, the Somalia region is divided into 9 zones, and those, in turn, are divided into 67 areas. The exact number of words is unknown, as in the CSA documents for 2005 and 2007 their number and names are different. Below is a list of zones in the region.

• Afder
• Degehab-Bur (Degehabur)
• Fick (Fiq)
• Godet
• Jijiga
• Korahe
• Liben
• Shinile
• Worder

• Great Somalia
• Oal oal

• Map of the administrative division of the region (PDF file)
• Official site of the region