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Shilavo

Town in Somali Region, Ethiopia

Town in Somali Region, Ethiopia

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leader_name1Abdirahman Mohamed Osman
leader_title2Shilabo City Mayor
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Shilabo (; also spelled "Scilave", "Shelabo") is a town in eastern Ethiopia, in the Korahe Zone of the Somali Region. It is the administrative center of Shilavo woreda.

History

During the 1963 Ogaden rebellion, Shilaabo was blockaded and shelled by the Ethiopian Imperial Army as a reprisal for local support to the insurgency.

Somali military units supported the Western Somali Liberation Front's attack on an Ethiopian military unit outside Shilavo in June 1982, which led to a renewal of hostilities between the two countries.

The former President of neighbouring Somalia, Maj. General Mohamed Siyad Barre, was born in Shilaabo, although he later claimed he was born in Garbahaarreey so he would be eligible to serve in the Italian colonial police force.

The mayor of Shilabo, Mahdi Badal Omar was arrested in July 1995, for allegedly being a member of the Ogaden National Liberation Front.

Demographics

Based on 2005 figures from the Central Statistical Agency, Shilavo has an estimated total population of 7,239 of whom 3,877 are men and 3,362 are women. The 1997 census reported this town had a total population of 4,853 of whom 2,561 were men and 2,383 women. The largest ethnic group reported in this town was the Somali (98.95%)1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1 Tables 2.4, 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.

Notes

References

  2. (2017). "Politics and Violence in Eastern Africa: The Struggles of Emerging States". [[Taylor & Francis]].
  3. [http://130.238.24.99/library/resources/dossiers/local_history_of_ethiopia/s/ORTSHE.pdf "Local History in Ethiopia"] {{webarchive. link. (2011-05-28 (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 2 December 2007))
  4. David D. Laitin and [[Said S. Samatar]], ''Somalia: Nation in Search of a State'' (Boulder: Westview Press 1987), p. 79
  5. [http://www.onwar.com/aced/nation/sat/somalia/fethiopiasomalia1982.htm Ethiopia Somalia Clashes 1982] (accessed 20 July 2009)
  6. [http://www.csa.gov.et/surveys/National%20statistics/national%20statistics%202005/Population.pdf CSA 2005 National Statistics], Table B.4
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