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  Amhara
Amhara is a name with an awesome history in Ethiopia, and a political party that bears this name is unavoidably burdened with a heavy legacy from the past.
Amhara society was rigidly stratified, with a vast peasant base supporting a narrow ruling hierarchy of aristocrats and clerics, a social structure often described as feudal.
Amhara were heavily involved in the ranks and leadership of the student movement and the several political organizations that emerged from it to struggle against the imperial regime and its military successor.
www.sidamaconcern.com /news2005/whats_in_name.htm   (1744 words)

  
  Ethiopia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Assab, a port near the southern entrance of the Red Sea, was bought from the local sultan in March 1870 by an Italian company, which by 1882 led to the Italian colony of Eritrea.
The elections for Ethiopia's first popularly-chosen national parliament and regional legislatures were held in May and June 1995.
The Oromo, Amhara, and Tigrayans make up more than three-fourths of the population, but there are more than 80 different ethnic groups within Ethiopia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethiopia   (2680 words)

  
 Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
The three principal provinces of Abyssinia are Tigre in the north, Amhara (in which Gondar the capital is situated) in the centre, and Shoa in the south.
The province of Shoa is almost separated from that of Amhara by the Wolla Gallas, a Mohammedan tribe, and for a long time the former had been virtually independent, and governed by a hereditary line of princes, to one of whom the Indian government sent a special embassy under Major Harris in 1841.
The Amharic, the language of Amhara, is that of the court, the array, and the merchants, and is that too which travelers who penetrate beyond Tigre have ordinarily occasion to use.
www.1902-encyclopedia.com /A/ABY/abyssinia.html   (7328 words)

  
 BioMed Central | Full text | The new middle level health workers training in the Amhara regional state of Ethiopia: ...
Regional states are responsible for the recruitment and training of these categories of health workers [2].
In the Amhara regional state, the first batch of these middle level health workers were released in 1997 and has been assigned into the peripheral health institutions of the region ever since.
The Amhara regional state covers some 16% of the area of the country and about a quarter of the population, making it the second largest state in the country.
www.biomedcentral.com /1471-2458/2/15   (2881 words)

  
 Pondering the Cost of the Clash of Cultures
The final manifestation of his party has shown in the results of its electorate which is mainly the Amhara region and a few garrison towns in other regions that were used by Menelik in the conquest of these regions.
The second is that those Amharas in the northern Amhara region who elected these individuals do not seem to care enough about the repercussions of the actions of these individuals who are on a power quest even if it meant further damaging the relationship between the Oromo people and their people.
Amhara politicians have the options of organizing themselves as the guardians of Ethiopian unity and advance Amhara and Amharic language interests or organize themselves as Amharas and come to the table with other peoples for mutual partnership.
www.voicefinfinne.org /English/Column/Fortify_Oromia.htm   (3718 words)

  
 Post harvest update Amhara region
Accordingly, the UNDP-EUE visited 3 zones and 4 weredas from Region 1 and 3 zones and 2 weredas from Region 3 to obtain information regarding the current situation and the planned response to expected relief needs for the coming year, 1997.
Likewise, in South Welo, North Welo and Wag Hamra zones in Region 3, even though the overall annual production has been good, a total of 472,573 people are expected to be in need of food assistance in the coming year.
The zone is located in the intermediate agro-ecological zone and consists of 7 weredas, out of which 3 weredas, namely Astbi in the south-east, Erob in the north-east and Saezi Tseadamba south of the zonal capital of Adigrat, were reported to be affected by a shortage of rainfall.
www.africa.upenn.edu /eue_web/northdec.htm   (2648 words)

  
 FDRE States-Basic Information, Amhara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Sate of Amhara is located in the north western and north central part of Ethiopia.
According to the 1994 census, the region's population was 13,834,297 of which 6,947,546 were males and 6,886,751 females.
The estimated livestock population of the region is 9.1 million cattle, 8.4 million sheep and goats, 1.6 million equines, and 8.5 million poultry.
www.ethiopar.net /English/basinfo/infoamra.htm   (935 words)

  
 Langston University Goat Research Extension
In about 48.5% of the regional woredas, awareness of the small ruminant mange problem was found in more than 51% of the small ruminant holder rural population or by about 48.8% of the respondents, of which about 92% were found to know the real mode of the disease transmission.
Considering the availability of sufficient and effective veterinary drugs in the region’s veterinary clinics, and the fact that about 55.9% of the peasant population is aware of the possible use of modern and as additional 14% has knowledge of traditional medicines (Fig.
Apart from the Amhara region, mange is very likely posing severe problems in the neighboring regional states as much of the affected areas border other regions and uncontrolled livestock movement across regional borders is a common phenomenon.
www.luresext.edu /international/Mange.htm   (3459 words)

  
 Ethiopia
Type IV (referred to as "Mariam Girz" in Ethiopia) is practiced mainly in the Amhara region.
The type of procedure and the stage in a woman or girl's life when it is performed vary according to regions of the country.
The IAC was given permission to establish its regional headquarters permanently in Addis Ababa.
www.state.gov /g/wi/rls/rep/crfgm/10098.htm   (1941 words)

  
 Ethiopia Needs a New Political Arrangement
Amhara leadership is making deceptive attempts with talks about democracy and ethnic harmony to convince other nationalities and line up behind them to defeat the Tigray ruling Ethiopia.
Amhara language was made the only language in elementary education and all other languages based in each regions were prohibited from even being taught in public schools under the concept that Amhara was the national language and other were simply dialects.
Amhara had ruled Ethiopia for over thousand years until 1991 and they never allowed other nationalities to participate in the affairs of the country all of these years.
www.sidamaconcern.com /news2006/ethiopia_needs_a_new_political.htm   (1871 words)

  
 FHI - I. Accomplishments and Contraints   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The towns are also the regional capitals except Nazareth which is one of the biggest towns in Oromia, located along a major highway route to the Port of Assab and four other regions.
The members were drawn from the regional and zonal health and education sectors, NGOs, government offices such as the municipalities, regional agricultural offices, factories, religious organizations, local health centers, and regional DKT/PSI representatives.
A few copies of the guidelines were distributed to regional health departments, however, due to lack of orientation of the health personnel, they were not used.
www.fhi.org /en/HIVAIDS/pub/Archive/aidscapreports/finalreportAIDSCAPethiopia/ethiopia_accomplishments.htm   (5235 words)

  
 Expansion of the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme to Northern Ethiopia
Persecution of wolves in the region, due to the concern over predation of livestock, also has the potential to be a significant threat to some of the remaining populations, and has likely been the cause of decline in those two areas where wolves have recently disappeared (Marino, 1999; Ash, 2000).
Wolf populations in the Amhara Region survive in such fragmented and small areas of habitat that short-term as well as long-term conservation strategies are needed for their safeguard.
Of the areas in Amhara Region where wolves are currently found, one is partially and nominally protected within the Simien Mountains NP and two further ranges are partially managed as community natural resource areas.
www.canids.org /canidnews/4/ash_ethiopian_wolf.htm   (1477 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Ethiopia
Beni Shangul Region, the corner formed by the Blue Nile River and Sudan border north of Asosa, and Dalati, a village east of the Dabus River.
West Gurage Region, Chaha is spoken in and around Emdibir, Gura is spoken in and around Gura Megenase and Wirir, Muher is spoken in and around Ch'eza and in the mountains north of Chaha and Ezha, Gyeto is spoken south of Ark'it' in K'abul and K'want'e, Ezha is spoken in Agenna.
North Amhara Region, Avergele District and Lasta and Waag zones, 100 km north of Weldiya.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=ET   (2599 words)

  
 MSF Around the World
In the district of Libokemkem in the northeastern Amhara Region, MSF treated 1,150 patients for kala azar in the last eight months of 2005.
In the western region of Gambella, where up to 70,000 displaced persons in camps are in urgent need of medical assistance, MSF has established a fixed health centre just outside the main town of Itang.
Like the population of the Somali Region, the Afars are nomadic, moving every three or four months in search of grazing areas and water for their livestock.
www.msf.org /msfinternational/invoke.cfm?component=article&objectid=957CA422-5056-AA77-6C5B983CE0EEB648&method=full_html   (1070 words)

  
 Jimma University Students Petition Oromia Regional Government to Respect and Defend Oromo Rights
The programme for the alleviation of poverty, misery, and suffering drawn up by the Oromia Regional Government is commendable.  Regardless, joblessness, vagrancy, exposure to disease, homelessness, and crime are on the rise mainly due to the new education policy.
The Oromia Regional Government, the Oromia Bureau of Education and the Teacher Training Colleges of Jimma and Adama should cooperate in creating new branches in these colleges so that these students could be educated free of charge.
The Oromia Regional Government should immediately investigate the cases of political prisoners, being held in detention centers in various localities of Oromia and other regions for allegedly supporting the OLF or other political organizations or for merely raising the name of the Oromo nation and should have them promptly released.
www.oromiaonline.com /News/JimmaUniversityStudentsPetition.htm   (2077 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | International | Killing streets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The region is a hotbed of dissent and an opposition stronghold.
Lidetu Ayelew was recently suspended as vice-chairman of the CUDP and there are tensions between ethnic Amhara, who are seen as dominating the CUDP but who, since the advent of multi-party democracy, witnessed a pronounced erosion of their political hegemony, and other ethnic groups.
The chief of the Amhara region Ayalew Gobeze warned that those promoting CUDP objectives through street violence would be brought to book.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/768/in3.htm   (1540 words)

  
 Amhara: localizacion, historia y costumbres de esta etnia africana
Los Amhara, parece que hacia el año 1500 A.C., junto con el actual Pueblo Tigre, era la población que creó el poderoso Imperio de Axum.
El pueblo Amhara disfrutó durante siglos, de un estado privilegiado bajo los sucesivos emperadores.
Aunque los Amhara no constituían la mayoría de la población, sus líderes feudales y tribales participaron en la jerarquía burocrática del imperio.
www.ikuska.com /Africa/Etnologia/Pueblos/Amhara/index.htm   (292 words)

  
 Locating Landmines and UXO, by Michael L Fleisher (6.2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In Ethiopia, the survey’s efforts are mainly focused on the five regions of the country’s 11 that are regarded as being the most highly suspect for landmine/UXO contamination: Tigray, Amhara, Afar, Oromiya and the Ethiopian Somali National Regional State.
Each of Ethiopia’s regions is divided into zones; the zones, in turn, are divided into districts (woredas); the districts are divided into sub-districts (kebeles); and the sub-districts are divided into sub-kebeles (tabia, but baito in Tigray region), which are in turn made up of “communities” (sing.
The results of this mission strongly suggest that the landmine/UXO problem in the Amhara region is not nearly as pronounced as the original worst-case estimates had suggested.
maic.jmu.edu /journal/6.2/focus/michaellfleisher/michaellfleisher.htm   (1779 words)

  
 Post harvest update Amhara region
A mission to the North and South Welo zones of the Amhara National Regional State was organised following reports of crop damage resulting from the unseasonal pre-belg (short season) rainfall that has occurred since the first dekade of December 1995 throughout northern parts of Ethiopia.
The team comprised members from the central CDPP Early Warning Department, the regional CDPP bureau, from Dessie EECMY and the zonal CDPP branch office.
In the assessment, Sekota and Zequala weredas from Wag Hamra zone were also covered and there the situation was found to be even more severe than Bugna, leading the team to recommend immediate intervention to stabilise the situation and prevent further unnecessary migration.
www.africa.upenn.edu /eue_web/AMHARA.htm   (946 words)

  
 Oromo Liberation Front
The fundamental political objective of the Oromo people is to exercise their inalienable right to national self determination to liberate themselves from a century of oppression and exploitation, and to form, where possible, a political union with other nations on the basis of equality, respect for mutual interests and the principle of voluntary associations.
After nomination, the candidates tour the region accompanied by their supporters to win the backing of the people before election, The individuals will be elected on the basis of wisdom, bravery, health and physical fitness.
The Cushitic speaking communities of this region perhaps Nubians, are credited with the domestication of donkey and were the first to breed mules, (a result of a cross between a donkey and a mare).
www.oromoliberationfront.org /OromiaBriefs.htm   (9477 words)

  
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In the Amhara region of Ethiopia, rates of child marriage are among the highest in the world.
Half of all girls in Amhara are married before their 15th birthday.
Ninety-five percent of the girls surveyed did not know their husband before marriage, and 85 percent were given no forewarning that they were going to be married.
lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/child.html   (637 words)

  
 MSF-USA: 2005 Activity Report - Ethiopia
A long-running TB project in the Ogaden region of southeastern Ethiopia, for which MSF had been providing medicines and laboratory equipment, training staff and monitoring implementation, was handed over to regional authorities in June 2005.
The project is operated in Humera, a town in the Tigray region near the border with both Eritrea and Sudan, and in Abdurafi in the Amhara region.
The region's only health facilities are found mostly in towns along the main roads, far from the Afar's pasture land and water sites.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org /publications/ar/i2005/ethiopia.cfm   (1629 words)

  
 FEWS NET Region/Country Center
The southern and southeastern lowlands in Borena of the Oromiya region and southern parts of Somali Region normally receive little or no rain during the meher season and were seasonably dry during the month.
These are (1) the poor belg rains during the latter part of the season in April and May; (2) a significant delay in the onset of the main meher rains; and (3) a disruption in meher rainfall during the second and third weeks of July.
At present, the federal government is working with regional governments and some donors to provide poor farmers with seeds for late-season crops such as teff and chickpea in order to take advantage of moisture available during the remaining few weeks of the rainy season.
www.fews.net /centers/innerSections.aspx?f=et&m=1000657&pageID=monthliesDoc   (2748 words)

  
 German language: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It is used as a local official language in German-speaking regions of Belgium[Click link for more facts about this topic], EHandler: no quick summary.
Swabian (schwäbisch) is one of the alemannic dialects of high german, spoken in the region swabia....
The dialects of German which are or were primarily spoken in colonies founded by German speaking people resemble the dialects of the regions the founders came from (e.g.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/german_language.htm   (8330 words)

  
 Adherents.com
In 1730 a group settled in middle Germany in the Hesse-Cassel region at Wittgenstein (later Waldeck), and in 1800 some settled in the Lahn Valley near Marburg.
The groups from middle Germany, known as Hessian Amish, left for North America, and by 1900 all traces of the Amish had vanished from that area...
A fourth group blossomed in 1852, and by 1880 there were six congregational clusters in the Lancaster region.
www.adherents.com /Na/Na_23.html   (3620 words)

  
 Members of the Parliament of the FDRE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Tigrayan soil is Ethiopian soil, as is the soil in the regions of Amhara, Oromiya, Afar, etc. Thus, when a foreign occupation force is on Ethiopian soil anywhere, that means the country --- not just the region or district or village -- has been attacked.
Indeed, prior to the invasion the newly empowered regional states were engaged in intensive development projects that involved the construction of roads, schools and clinics.
That's why thousands of volunteers from Amhara region (the area we represent) have willingly gone to the frontlines to fight the Eritrean invaders.
www.ethiopar.net /Hot/benjamin.htm   (6170 words)

  
 BioMed Central | Full text | Diagnostic and treatment delay among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Ethiopia: a cross ...
Delay in the diagnosis and treatment of PTB is unacceptably high in Amhara region.
An institution based cross-sectional study was conducted between September 1, 2003 and December 31, 2003 among new smear positive PTB patients in Amhara region, the second largest region of the country with a population of 18.2 million [11].
We thank the Amhara Region Health Bureau in Ethiopia for coordinating the study.
www.biomedcentral.com /1471-2334/5/112   (3604 words)

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