Chereti (woreda)
Chereti or Weyib is one of the woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia, named after its major town, Melka Chireti. Part of the Afder Zone, Chereti is bordered on the southwest by the Ganale Dorya River which separates it from the Liben Zone, on the west by Goro Bekeksa, on the north by Elekere, on the east by Afder, and on the southeast by Dolobay.
Overview[edit]
The altitude of this woreda ranges from 750 to 1700 meters above sea level. Other rivers in Chereti include the Mena and the Weyib. As of 2008[update], Chereti has 62 kilometers of all-weather gravel road and 440 kilometers of community roads; in which around 8.69% of the total population has access to drinking water.[1]
Flooding was reported in Chereti in May 2006, which destroyed around 9 villages and displaced more than 870 households. More than 4,500 shoats were also reported drowned by the flooding.[2]
Major towns in Chereti include:- Hara-arba, Habal-allan, Gurro, Bardumey, Iligdheere & Dukanle.
Demographics[edit]
Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 94,295, of whom 53,341 are men and 40,954 women. While 5,152 or 5.46% are urban inhabitants, a further 53,715 or 56.97% are pastoralists. 99.3% of the population said they were Muslim. The majority of the inhabitants belong to Dhawed sub clan of Gaadsan (Dir). [3] [4]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Hailu Ejara Kene, Baseline Survey of 55 Weredas of PCDP Phase II, Part I Archived July 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (Addis Ababa: August 2008), Annexes 16, 17
- ^ "Regional overview", Focus on Ethiopia, May 2006, UN-OCHA (accessed 27 February 2009)
- ^ Census 2007 Tables: Somali Region Archived November 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.1, 2.4, 3.1 and 3.4.
- ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1 Archived November 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Tables 2.1, 2.13 (accessed 10 January 2009). The results of the 1994 census in the Somali Region were not satisfactory, so the census was repeated in 1997.
