Melka Chireti, Ethiopia

Melka Chireti is a town in southeastern Ethiopia. Located in the Afder Zone of the Somali Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 05°20′N 42°05′E with an altitude of 321 meters above sea level.[1]

The NGO Médecins Sans Frontières operates a clinic in Melka Chireti.[2]

Violence between the Dawed, (madluug maxamad dir) andRer Afgab clan had destroyed numerous houses in Melka Chireti, which had been rebuilt by the time a delegation from the UNDP visited the town in February, 1994.[3]

This woreda is primarily inhabited by the Dawed of Gaadsan, Dir

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Melka Chireti has an estimated total population of 8,903, of whom 4,841 were men and 4,062 were women.[4] The 1997 national census reported a total population for this town of 5,967, of whom 3,198 were men and 2,769 were women. The predominant ethnic group reported in Melka Chireti was the Somali (99.64% of the population).[5] It is the largest town in Chereti woreda.

Notes
  1. "Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 9 February 2009)
  2. "Field News: Somali Region, Ethiopia: Thousands of IDPs in Search of Food and Water" Archived July 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, MSF website (accessed 24 February 2009)
  3. This woreda is primarily inhabited by the Dawed of Gaadsan Dir South West Ogaden Situation Report, February 1994 (accessed 23 December 2008)
  4. CSA 2005 National Statistics Archived November 23, 2006, 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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