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  Ethiopia - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Amhara and Tigrean, who together make up about 33% of the people, live mostly in the central and N Ethiopian Plateau; they are Christian and hold most of the higher positions in the government.
Ethiopia is an extremely poor and overwhelmingly agricultural country, with farm products accounting for over half of the country's gross domestic product and 90% of its exports (mainly coffee).
Ethiopia is governed under the constitution of 1994, which provides for a president as chief of state and a prime minister as head of government.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ethiopia.html   (3265 words)

  
 Amhara People Profile
The Amhara were responsible for slowing and holding the expanding Muslims as Arab pressures and influences spread Islam to Cushite and Semitic people in the Horn of Africa.
For the Amhara people, the average life expectancy is around 46, compared to 75 years in the U.S.A. For the Amhara people, there is one doctor per 28,000 patients and one nurse per 8,393 patients.
The Amhara generally feel that to be Amhara is to be Christian and to be Christian is to be Orthodox.
endor.hsutx.edu /~obiwan/profiles/amhara.html   (2148 words)

  
 Ethiopia (12/06)
Ethiopia is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered on the north and northeast by Eritrea, on the east by Djibouti and Somalia, on the south by Kenya, and on the west and southwest by Sudan.
Ethiopia's agriculture is plagued by periodic drought, soil degradation caused by inappropriate agricultural practices and overgrazing, deforestation, high population density, undeveloped water resources, and poor transport infrastructure, making it difficult and expensive to get goods to market.
Ethiopia was a charter member of the United Nations and took part in UN operations in Korea in 1951 and the Congo in 1960.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2859.htm   (3461 words)

  
 Amhara (Ethiopia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Amhara, according to the Ethiopian Parliament site, "consists of 10 administrative zones, one special zone, 105 woredas, and 78 urban centers." "The capital city of the State of Amhara is Bahir-Dar" and "the Sate of Amhara is located in the north western and north central part of Ethiopia.
This is an ethnical state, with 91.2% of the population (of 13,834,297) belonging to the Amhara ethnicity.
Amhara traitional color is yellow and second red.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/et-am.html   (309 words)

  
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Ninety-five percent of the Amhara (and of all Ethiopians) depend on farming and stock raising for subsistence.
The Amhara have a stratified feudal society, although new elites are emerging to challenge the old hierarchy.
Land tenure among the Amhara of Ethiopia; the dynamics of cognatic descent.
lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7825   (1350 words)

  
 People and Culture of Ethiopia, Africa
They are located primarily in the central highland plateau of Ethiopia and comprise the major population element in the provinces of Begemder and Gojjam and in parts of Shoa and Wallo.
Ethiopia's staple grain is called teff, and from its flour the Ethiopians fashion a large pancake-like bread called injera that they place directly on the dining table.
Church painting in Ethiopia serves a very real purpose, with all the biblical and more localised religious stories being portrayed clearly and simply to inform uneducated people of their traditions and their heritage.
www.africaguide.com /country/ethiopia/culture.htm   (1505 words)

  
 MAR | Data | Assessment for Amhara in Ethiopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Since the Amhara had long advocated an “indivisible” Greater Ethiopian empire, they were very sensitive about Eritrean nationalist movements and the possibility of further state disintegration.
The Amhara represent approximately a quarter of Ethiopia’s population and are closer in demographics and culture to the dominant Tigreans than other ethnic groups in Ethiopia.
The Amharas generally live in the northern highlands of Ethiopia like the Tigreans (REGIONAL = 0), are Ethiopian Orthodox Christian like the Tigreans (CULDIFX4 = 0), and Amharic remains Ethiopia’s official language (LANG = 1).
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=53007   (376 words)

  
 Amhara Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amhara (አማራ) is one of the nine ethnic divisions (kililoch) of Ethiopia, containing the homeland of the Amhara people.
Ethiopia's largest inland body of water, Lake Tana, is located in Amhara, as well as the Semien Mountains National Park, which includes the highest point in Ethiopia, Ras Dashan.
The CSA of Ethiopia estimated in 2005 that farmers in Amhara had a total of 9,694,800 head of cattle (representing 25% of Ethiopia's total cattle), 6,390,800 sheep (36.7%), 4,101,770 goats (31.6%), 257,320 horses (17%), 8,900 mules (6%), 1,400,030 asses (55.9%), 14,270 camels (3.12%), 8,442,240 poultry of all species (27.3%), and 919,450 beehives (21.1%).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amhara_Region   (406 words)

  
 Polity IV Country Report 2003: Ethiopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Executive authority in Ethiopia is currently vested in a prime minister selected by the dominant party in the legislature.
The Amhara have long been the dominant ethnic group in Ethiopia, their cultural hegemony was solidified during the Selassie and Mengistu regimes as non-Amharas were actively excluded from positions of political and economic power.
The Amhara view the new federal structure (which includes ten ethnic-based administrative districts) as an attempt by the Tigrayan-dominated ruling party to dismantle their hegemonic position within the national government.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Eti1.htm   (1273 words)

  
 The Amhara People of Ethiopia -- A Cultural Profile
The Amhara (pronounced am-HAH-ruh) are mostly farmers who live in the north central highlands of Ethiopia.
The Amhara believe that to be Amhara is to be Christian.
To the Amhara to be Christian is to be Orthodox.
orvillejenkins.com /profiles/amhara.html   (2056 words)

  
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Oromos represent 40% of Ethiopia's population, and the OLF is the largest of the Oromo armies.
Amharas are concentrated primarily in Addis Ababa and the north-west portion of central Ethiopia.
Amharas and those who have assimilated into the Amhara culture are, according to Alex de Waal of Africa Watch, "grossly over-represented" in the bureaucracy.
www1.umn.edu /humanrts/ins/ethiopia_amharas_93.html   (9701 words)

  
 The Amara region & its people
Topographically, the Amhara Region is divided into highlands- the amazing Semen Mountains in the north and massive mountain ranges in the east and west, and lowlands- in the north western including the low lying Nile Basin.
The economy of the Amhara Region, like the economy of the federal state, is dominated by agriculture.
Tana is Ethiopia’s largest Lake and is the third largest of the African Continent.
www.telecom.net.et /~ada/amhara.htm   (806 words)

  
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Irrigation scheme dam near Sekota, North Wello zone, ANRS, Ethiopia, showing area where maize, potato, and onion are grown under irrigation and barley, wheat, sorghum, teff and safflower are rain fed, panorama, 1 of 3.
Irrigation scheme dam near Sekota, North Wello zone, ANRS, Ethiopia, showing area where maize, potato, and onion are grown under irrigation and barley, wheat, sorghum, teff and safflower are rain fed, panorama, 2 of 3.
Irrigation scheme dam near Sekota,, North Wello zone, ANRS, Ethiopia, showing area where maize, potato, and onion are grown under irrigation and barley, wheat, sorghum, teff and safflower are rain fed, panorama, 3 of 3.
crsps.org /amhara/ethiopia.htm   (1499 words)

  
 Amhara Page -- Politics Directory @ Sellassie WWW
Ethiopia and Eritrea perhaps the only countries in Africa which do have real armies and in order to control them from the distant western capitals, it has to deconstructed into smaller pieces.
Latin America speaks Spanish, the language of the colonizers, and the ecomonic progress they made in the past two decades is a result of focusing on the needs of their countries, not fighting the ghosts of the past.
For over 70 years the Soviet Union was a union of different republics, sccording to the USSR paper-constitution; the same with the recent government in Addis; they can't be multicultural, when they are totalitarian in their socialist convictions.
www.angelfire.com /ak/sellassie/politics/amhara.html   (1151 words)

  
 Ethiopia Amhara Ascendancy - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
Yekuno Amlak's grandson, Amda Siyon (reigned 1313-44), distinguished himself by at last establishing firm control over all of the Christian districts of the kingdom and by expanding into the neighboring regions of Shewa, Gojam, and Damot and into Agew districts in the Lake Tana area.
He also devoted much attention to campaigns against Muslim states to the east and southeast of Amhara, such as Ifat, which still posed a powerful threat to the kingdom, and against Hadya, a Sidama state southwest of Shewa.
The administration of justice was centralized at court and was conditioned by a body of Egyptian Coptic law known as the Fetha Nagast (Law of Kings), introduced into Ethiopia in the mid-fifteenth century (see The Legal System, ch.
workmall.com /wfb2001/ethiopia/ethiopia_history_amhara_ascendancy.html   (684 words)

  
 AFRICA - Explore the Regions - Ethiopian Highlands
This song praises the Amhara emperors and warriors who fought to keep Ethiopia free of outside invasions.
Ethiopia is one of only two African countries which were never colonized.
The Ethiopian emperor was believed to be a direct descendant of the biblical King Solomon and was seen as the embodiment of Ethiopia's ancient history.
www.pbs.org /wnet/africa/explore/ethiopia/ethiopia_music_lo.html   (296 words)

  
 SudanTribune article : Ethiopia Needs a New Political Arrangement, Not a Leader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Article 39 grants citizens in each regional state of Ethiopia the exclusive rights to elect their own representatives to local assemblies and national parliament, the rights to govern their region, control their resources and teach their own languages in their respective schools in their regional states (see reference 2).
The current Ethiopia state is a mess and we should not continue to pretend like CUD and other unionists continue to do that the mess in Ethiopia right now can be cleared up and reformed.
Ethiopia has existed for over two thousand years of Ethiopia state and the current mess existed through out these years.
www.sudantribune.com /article.php3?id_article=14758   (1157 words)

  
 UNICEF - Ethiopia - Resources needed to help children and families cope with Ethiopia floods
LAKE TANA, Ethiopia, 11 September 2006 — Sisay Zegey, 8, huddled close to her older sister at the edge of a crowd gathered in the middle of a windswept open field in Ethiopia's central Amhara Region.
Sisay is one of many thousands evacuated from their homes as heavy rains flooded rural communities close to the banks of Amhara's swollen Lake Tana, the vast body of water at the source of the Blue Nile.
UNICEF Ethiopia is appealing for $18.35 million to respond to the needs of flood-affected children and families.
www.unicef.org /infobycountry/ethiopia_35693.html   (792 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Ethiopia
Olam is in southwest Ethiopia and on the Sudan border.
Ethnic population: All ethnic Oromo are 30,000,000 in Ethiopia.
South central Ethiopia, northeast of Lake Abaya and southeast of Lake Awasa (Sidamo Awraja).
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Ethiopia   (2599 words)

  
 “The Fox Outfoxing The Fox” Game Between Amhara and Tigrai Continues!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I mean the Amhara and Tigrai are doomed to face the wrath of the rest of Ethiopia for the rest of Ethiopians are saying “enough is enough” and they are up in arms to reclaim their dignity and their pride.
The Amhara have calculated or concluded that, with a small help from Eritrea, they are now in a position to snatch power from Tigrai where as Weyane are trying to hang is there until they are ready to give birth to “Abai Tigrai”;.
If the Amhara are to come back to power in a lightening speed and if their ascension to power will be a smooth sailing without shedding blood on their part, then Eritrea is the one that is designated as the sacrificial lamb.
www.alenalki.com /ne/the_fox_outfoxing_the_fox.htm   (4315 words)

  
 Adherents.com
11: "The Amhara are descended from the Abyssinians, or early Ethiopians, and Arabic traders of the sixth century B.C...
represent 25% of the overall population of Ethiopia...
The population was converted to Christianity in the 4th century AD and their form of religion has changed little, if at all, since its beginnings in Ethiopia...
www.adherents.com /Na/Na_22.html   (3010 words)

  
 USAID Ethiopia | Amhara
GlobalGiving and USAID are collaborating to help the people of Ethiopia build better lives: alleviating poverty, getting an education, and increasing self-reliance.
Amhara, one of nine ethnic territories in Ethiopia, sits in the central highlands of northwestern Ethiopia.
The scholarship program provides financial assistance to girls with good academic performance who would otherwise not be able to continue their education due to their poverty.
www.supportsistercities.org /cb/ethiopia/amhar.html   (170 words)

  
 Meskel Square: Amhara's flood
Just got back from a trip to the flood-hit villages around Lake Tana (the source of the Blue Nile) in Ethiopia's central Amhara region.
Most of the coverage of the floods has focused on Dire Dawa and South Omo which were hit badly through August.
This is a part of Ethiopia which is relatively blessed the rest of the year with a ready supply of fish and lots of water for the fields.
www.meskelsquare.com /archives/2006/09/amharas_flood.html   (440 words)

  
 GUS
Opposing the Sinhalese, who ritualise menarche, “[…] the Amhara female’s rite of passage (which may be formalized and public or casual and secret) is her introduction to adult heterosexual intercourse”.
This type of arrangement tends to be made when the boy’s family is too poor to provide enough to get him started on his own, or if the girl’s father has no son to help him with the work”.
Most parents want their girls to marry early, preferably before their first menstruation, due to the fear of pre-marital loss of virginity, or even worse, that a girl might bear a child out of wedlock.
www2.hu-berlin.de /sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/GUS/AMHARA.HTM   (1229 words)

  
 UNICEF - Ethiopia - UNICEF and Volvic Germany provide safe water in rural Ethiopia
With her neighbour, Yezab Menge fills a container from the new water point in the village of Melagudi in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region.
Coverage levels for water and sanitation in Ethiopia are among the lowest in the world.
UNICEF aims to assist Ethiopia in increasing rural water-supply coverage to 62 per cent by 2015.
www.unicef.org /infobycountry/ethiopia_34957.html   (611 words)

  
 Nazret.com EthioBlog - 357,000 affected in Ethiopia Flood
The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) said Ethiopia's northern Amhara region was the worst-hit in the giant Horn of Africa nation, with 97,000 people affected, of which 37,000 have lost their homes.
"Large areas of cropped land in the Amhara region are swamped by the floods," it said in a report.
Flooding typically occurs in Ethiopia's lowlands after heavy rains in the June-September season drench the highlands.
nazret.com /blog/index.php?title=357_000_affected_in_ethiopia_flood&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1   (1115 words)

  
 Facing the Challenge of Extreme Nationalism in Ethiopia
I remember an Ethiopian man of literature, whose name I do not recall, replying in an interview to the same question: ”How can we be sure as to who passed by the door of our grand mothers?” As you know, even the star actors have not been found to be ’pure’.
It is inevitable that it will extend its claim as far into Ethiopia as Awash, as it did shortly before and during its 1977-78 invasion of Ethiopia, and even demand indemnity if Ethiopia is found wanting in the task of defending itself.
It is my conviction that one has to abandon the unnecessary political journey and head home and invest on it, for that is an honorable step to take both in the eyes of the people and in the annals of history.
www.mediaethiopia.com /Views/abay_qeneni_part2.htm   (4263 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Country profiles | Timeline: Ethiopia
1818-68 - Lij Kasa conquers Amhara, Gojjam, Tigray and Shoa.
2000 June - Ethiopia and Eritrea sign a ceasefire agreement which provides for a UN observer force to monitor the truce and supervise the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from Eritrean territory.
Prime Minister Meles says Ethiopia was "technically" at war with the Islamists because they had declared holy war on his country.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1072219.stm   (1103 words)

  
 V/A: Sleeping in the Market: Ethiopian Music & Sounds from Amhara::Latitude
Within a year, 10,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel and resettled amidst growing threats in the region.
Telescope forward to 2001, Yayehe Smon took a leave from Israel and traced the footsteps back to Ethiopia with his father Mehari.
The result, heard on Amhara, is a mesmerizing collection of the sounds and songs along the coastal islands and city centers of Ethiopia’s Amhara and Adis Abeba.
www.locustmusic.com /latitude/amhara.html   (114 words)

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