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Ethiopia Party abbreviations : AAPO = All-Amhara People's Organisation; EPRDF = Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front; ODPO = Oromo People's Democratic Organization (Omoro regionalist); TPLF = Tigre People's Liberation Front (Tigre regionalist); Mil = Military; 1 Jan 1939 Addis Ababa and parts of the provinces of Amhara and Ethnic groups: Oromo 31.8%, Amhara 29.3%, Somali 6.2%, www.worldstatesmen.org /Ethiopia.html

Amhara (ethnicity) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Amhara (አማራ) is an ethnicity of people in the central highlands of Ethiopia, numbering about 19 million, making up around 26% of the country's population (estimates differ). One possible source of confusion for this stems from the mislabeling of Amharic speakers as "Amhara," and the fact that many people from other ethnic groups have Amharic names. Historians generally consider the Amhara to have been Ethiopia's ruling elite for centuries, represented by the line of Emperors ending in Haile Selassie. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amhara_(ethnicity)   (527 words)

Polity IV Country Report 2003: Ethiopia The Muslim Omoro, or Galla, peoples reside mainly in the east and south of the central plateau and comprise about 40% of the total population while the Christian Amhara and Tigrayan peoples, residents of the northern central plateau, constitute over 30% of Ethiopia's population (Amhara 25%; Tigrayan 8%). 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. Council of People's Representatives (527 seats; directly elected; most recent elections, 14 May and 31 August 2000) www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Eti1.htm   (1273 words)

Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles The regional governments were similarly dominated by the EPRDF affiliated parties (ie the Tigray Peoples' Liberation Front (TPLF) in Tigray region, the Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM) in Amhara region, the Oromo People's Democratic Organisation (OPDO) in Oromia and the Southern Ethiopia People's Democratic Front (SEPDF) in Southern Nations). Major political parties: The government is run by the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), an alliance between four parties – the Tigrayan Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM), Oromo Peoples Democratic Organisation (OPDO) and Southern Ethiopian Peoples Democratic Movement (SEPDM). Elections in 1995 and 2000 gave the component parties of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) an overwhelming majority of seats in the national parliament. www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1022070787685   (1883 words)

Medrek Ethiopian Discussion :: View topic - Amhara: unite or die! The Amhara people were never beneficiaries of the age old system which appeared to be in their favour, except using their languague in all threads of their life. The power thirsty and disrespectful elites of other ethnic groups should stop vilifying Amharas as people. Amharas don’t have to be ashamed of being organized as an ethnic group because they are proud of their ethnicity and have always achieved to live in peace and harmony with the rest of Ethiopians. www.ethioindex.com /medrek2/viewtopic.php?t=15657   (2531 words)

The Yemenite Semitic Origin of Amhara Abyssinia, and the conflict with the Kushi - Semitic Amhara Abyssinians attempt to confuse the oppressed Kushitic majority of Abyssinia, by using the name 'Ethiopia' whil Some theory goes that the Amhara people were formed from Oromo and Tigre armies of the ruling class in the late 13th century as a result of the former’s rebellion to the latter. But the Amhara people’s uncultured and uneducated political class fell victim to such a trap! Amhara tyrannical and archaic rule and ‘Ethiopia’ as the name of the country is an oxymoron that perpetuates the dysfunctional character of a country that leads the world in misery, pestilence, poverty, starvation, plague, and death! www.phrasebase.com /archive/264_the_yemenite_semitic_origin_of_amhara_abyssinia_and_the_conflict_with_the_kushi.html   (5707 words)

PHD2log.html [Diablotin_Narrator] Amhara - While religion may be being used to control the people, you get the sense that those armbands, though obviously painful to wear, are more painful to remove. [Amhara] The power I could use to break the gates or possible move the river is the same I would use to move the arch. [Amhara] Well, he's not going to die, but that armband has been on him a long time. phrontistery.50megs.com /diablotin/PHD2log.html   (5123 words)

INCORE: Ethnic Studies Network: Index As to the Ethiopian case it is difficult to understand who is a «nation» (Amhara, Tigray, Oromo?), who is a «nationality»?, who is a «people»? Some of them represent the interests of tiny ethnic groups like the Democratic Front of Dawro (Dawro number 275,000), Mareko People's Nationality Democratic Movement and others 1. In Ethiopia, for example, the highest position has always been held by the Amhara. lugh.incore.ulst.ac.uk /home/esn/ismagilova.html   (5122 words)

Amhara Amhara is the ethnicity of people in the central highlands of Ethiopia, numbering about 15 million, 27% of the country's population. Amhara is also one of the nine ethnic divisions (kililoch) of Ethiopia, containing the homeland of the Amhara people. The Amhara are known for their beauty, as exemplified by the supermodel Liya Kebede. www.33beat.com /Amhara.html   (138 words)

ethiopundit: Don't Believe The Hype The words of Wallelign Mekonen (an Amhara from Wollo region)in 1969 reflect the feelings of many of the era's educated youths "Ethiopia was not a nation, but a collection of nationalities ruled by the Amharas. The generation ethnicized politics on the grounds that the main problem is to bring down the Amhara domination, which it perceived as the sole culprit for all of Ethiopia's ills. The paradox is that the overthrow of Amhara domination took the roundabout way of a commitment to a radical ideology. ethiopundit.blogspot.com /2005/02/dont-believe-hype.html   (2650 words)

A response to Ato Hailu Shawel Three quarters an Oromo, and one quarter an Amhara, he is the ultimate new Ethiopian species that we could safely term as the Addis Ababan. Look no further than the plight of the Amharas in 1991, who perished in tens of thousands in Arusi and Harrerge because of the stereotypes held by their neighbors. Nevertheless, we need to remember the maxim that if people believe something to be true, it will be true in its consequences. www.ethiomedia.com /release/response_to_hailu_shawel.html   (1180 words)

Amhara Amhara is the ethnicity of people in the central highlands of Ethiopia, numbering about 15 million, 27% of the country's population. Amhara is also one of the nine ethnic divisions ( kililoch) of Ethiopia, containing the homeland of the Amhara people. They speak Amharic, which appertains to the South-Western Semitic languages group. www.yotor.com /wiki/en/am/Amhara.htm   (1180 words)

tecolahagos.com - ethiopian related issues and commentary And you really want us to hold Shoa Amharas (that is how you label the people whom TPLF brought together to fake Amhara ethnic representation) responsible for Meles' victory over the Dissenters today? You even go to the extent of claiming that the reason why people in DC were hostile to Ambassador Berhane was because they didn't want to see a Tigrean in a position of power/honor (as if you don't know who one of Ethiopia's powerful Foreign Ministers was long before TPLF came to power!). I am not a Shoa Amhara, not even an Amhara by ethnicity. www.tecolahagos.com /letters_from_bookreview.htm   (1597 words)

RIC Query - Ethiopia (18 April 2001) For more than a century until the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974, Amhara and Tigre governments and landlords maintained political and economic control over the Oromo land and people. Despite being the largest ethnic group in the Horn of Africa, the Oromo were "less united religiously and socially than the Amhara and Tigreans" and never formed one Oromo state (Minorities at Risk Project June 1998, 3). In the last period of the war against Mengistu, when the fighting started spreading from Tigray to other regions, the TPLF took the first steps to address the problem, promoting the formation of ethnic movements in other regions and of an umbrella organization, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) to bring them together. uscis.gov /graphics/services/asylum/ric/documentation/ETH01004.htm   (3708 words)

Amhara of Ethiopia Less than 1% of the Amhara people are true followers of Jesus Christ. he Amhara (am-HA-ra), numbering about 16 million, are a people group who live in the highlands of Ethiopia Of the rural Amhara, 85% live a day’s walk from any established road. www.2001pray.org /PeopleGroups/Amhara.htm   (3708 words)

Amhara: Just the facts... Amhara (A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia), an ethnic group of Ethiopia (Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia). www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/am/amhara.htm   (30 words)

Amhara - Ethnos - Books about the Amhara People Amhara is the ethnicity of people in the central highlands of Ethiopia, numbering about 15 million, 27% of the country's population. Amhara is also one of the nine ethnic divisions (kililoch) of Ethiopia, containing the homeland of the Amhara people. Amhara - Ethnos - Books about the Amhara People www.almudo.com /ethnos/Amhara.htm   (130 words)

Amharic Culture Messing claims that the people consider Amhara and Abyssinian Christian to be synonymous, and that there is a good deal of suspicion and ethnocentrism toward outsiders. The EOC is predominant in the northern regions of Tigray and Amhara. Ninety-five percent of the Amhara (and of all Ethiopians) depend on farming and stock raising for subsistence. www.wdbydana.com /ethiopia6.html   (2251 words)

MAR Data Assessment for Amhara in Ethiopia The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP), almost exclusively an Amhara organization with between 3000 and 5000 fighters, opposed the creation of Tigrean-led EPRDF. 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. 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. www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=53007   (376 words)

MAR Data Chronology for Amhara in Ethiopia The reform dispossessed Amhara farmers suspected of being opponents of the present regime. The migration of Amhara farmers towards the Wollega region in Oromo State has sparked tensions between the Oromo and their Gumuz neighbors. Amhara is among the worst hit regions with food production down 24%. www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=53007   (5535 words)

ethiopia_amharas_93.html Furthermore, predominantly or exclusively Amhara political parties such as the All-Amhara People's Organization have been permitted to form, and groups with predominantly Amhara agendas, such as those calling for a return of the Amhara monarchy, are permitted to demonstrate and publish material. 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)

tecolahagos.com - ethiopian related issues and commentary The right of equality and self-government of the Amhara people, who make more than 45% of the Ethiopian population, has been violated. Amhara peasants in particular have become the main target of western mass media such as the BBC and CNN. The ethnocentric puppet regime and its surrogates to perpetuate the famine in Ethiopia have used the Amharas in Gonder and Wello. www.tecolahagos.com /memorandum.htm   (453 words)

vetiver Grass -- The Amhara Regional State Proposal On Vetiver Promotion This indicates that, all arable land and areas to be afforested and/or all watersheds in the Amhara Regional State require an intensive soil conservation and land management practices to prevent further deteriorations and/ or to re-inverse the degradation processes. Thus the promotion of Vetiver as a strategic soil conservation measure, in the Amhara Regional State, seems an ideal and a timely action to halt soil erosion and land degradation, which should be the highest priority in rural development programs of the state. Until recently, both people and government with various external assistance agencies are attempting to respond to the challenges of land degradation,and an impressive actions have been made on solving the problems of soil erosion. www.vetiver.org /ETH_amhara1.htm   (2905 words)

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog: COL1A2 Study on Amhara and Oromo Ethiopians The two main groups inhabiting the country are the Amhara, descended from Arabian conquerors, and the Oromo, the most important group among the Cushitic people. To better define the genetic relationship between the two Ethiopian groups, and also between African and non-African peoples, genetic distances among Amhara, Oromo and other populations were estimated using the COL1A2 allele and haplotype frequencies, and the allele frequencies of 16 additional classical markers. With the exception of some surveys on the general Ethiopian populations, little is known about the degree of genetic differentiation between the Amhara and the Oromo. dienekes.ifreepages.com /blog/archives/000274.html   (378 words)

Ethiopianet - Amhara people The Amhara enjoyed a privileged status under numerous Ethiopian emperors from the Amhara and Tigray ethnic groups. Although the Amhara did not constitute a majority of the population, their feudal and tribal leaders made up the empire's state bureaucratic positions. They are farmers and have their own language, also named Amhara. home.planet.nl /~romei017/ethiopianet-peoples-section-amhara.htm   (215 words)

AMHARA STATE The Amhara National Regional State is located in the northwest, centre and northeast of Ethiopia Sharing borders with Tigray Region on the north, Afar Region on the East, Oromia Region on the south and Benishangul-Gumuz Region on the west. There is thus a need to consider conservation measures trot save the flora and fauna of the Region through preserving the diverse habitats, which should be the focal point of any development activity for the natural resources and the people. The Amhara region has the gazetted Simen Mountains National Park (SMNP) as the only officially protected conservation area and two National Forest Priority Areas - Wof Washa and Yegof forests. www.ethemb.se /map_reg_amh.htm   (452 words)

Ethiopia - The "Restoration" of the "Solomonic" Line The Zagwe's championing of Christianity and their artistic achievements notwithstanding, there was much discontent with Lastan rule among the populace in what is now Eritrea and Tigray and among the Amhara, an increasingly powerful people who inhabited a region called Amhara to the south of the Zagwe center at Adefa. The Tigray and Amhara, who saw themselves as heirs to Aksum, denied the Zagwe any share in that heritage and viewed the Zagwe as usurpers. Under Yekuno Amlak, Amhara became the geographical and political center of the Christian kingdom. www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-4376.html   (460 words)

ENDERASSIE, NEGUSSENEGEST If you argue saying, true, most of the people who ruled Ethiopia for the last 245 years were not full-fledged Amharas, but the system they represented was an Amhara, a number of questions arise. Isn’t the so-called Amhara system the offshoot of the Axumite civilization, be it the form and content of the government, history, church, clergy, literature, music, administration, in a word, religion, politics and culture? It is evident that Ato Meles Zenawi, the present Prime Minister of Ethiopia, and Dr. Negasso Gidada, the President, are not Amharas. www.addistribune.com /Archives/2001/01/05-01-01/ENDERASSIE.htm   (2142 words)

Interview with Mulugeta Said, head of food security in Amhara Q: Are the people getting poorer in Amhara? ADDIS ABABA, 1 Jul 2003 (IRIN) - Mulugeta Said is the head of food security in Amhara region, an area with one of Ethiopia's largest chronically food insecure populations. IRIN is a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=35096   (727 words)

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