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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Dire Dawa
		Dire Dawa (which means “place of Remedy”) is one of two chartered cities (astedader akabibi) in Ethiopia (the other being the capital, Addis Ababa).
		Dire Dawa lies in the east of the nation, on the Dechatu River, at the foot of a ring of cliffs that has been described as "somewhat like a cluster of tea-leaves in the bottom of a slop-basin."
		Dire Dawa was separated from the Oromia Region around 1998 to become a chartered city.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dire-Dawa (1846 words)

	...::- Dire Dawa City -::...
		Dire Dawa is the capital city of the administrative council.
		Dire Dawa is located in the eastern part of the country enclosed by the State of Somalia and the State of Oromia.
		The north eastern part of Dire Dawa is relatively sparsely populated lowland exhibiting agro-pastoral and pastoral system, and the southeastern part of the administration comprises of the escarpment with mixed farming system.
	www.freewebs.com /diredawa (523 words)

	Dire Dawa travel guide - Wikitravel
		Dire Dawa is connected to Addis Ababa and the historical city of Harar by road.
		The blue and white minibuses are in abundance in Dire Dawa, as well as the small blue taxis.
		Most Dire Dawa taxi drivers don't have a sense of time, if you tell your contracted taxi driver to pick you up or drop you of at a certain time, expect him to be late an hour or two.
	wikitravel.org /en/Dire_Dawa (531 words)

	UNHCR - Ethiopia: Information on the ethnic make-up of Dire Dawa
		The first president of the Somali region had chosen Dire Dawa as regional capital, a choice vetoed by the central government (ibid.).
		A representative of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) (2 Apr. 1996), estimates that the ethnic composition of Dire Dawa, in order of predominance, is comprised of Oromos and neighbouring peasant groups, including Somalis, Amharas, Hararis, and Arabs.
		The president of the All Amhara People's Cultural and Relief Organization (AAPCRO) specified that the Oromos are the largest group in Dire Dawa, while noting that they are predominantly concentrated in the outlying areas and not in the city itself (10 Apr. 1996).
	www.unhcr.org /home/RSDCOI/3ae6abcb74.html (396 words)

	East (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The main, but more modern town of Dire Dawa, was the creation of the Djibouti/ Addis railway.
		The best way to explore Dire Dawa is to hire a horse drawn ghari, which provide a fun taxi service.
		Close to Dire Dawa, local people will point out ancient cave paintings dating back thousands of years.
	www.tourethio.com /travel/east/dire.htm (182 words)

	Dire Dawa - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dire Dawa is a chartered city (astedader akabibi) in eastern Ethiopia.
		According to a 1994 census Dire Dawa has a population of 164,851 making the city the second largest in the country.
		Dire Dawa was founded in 1902, after the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad reached the area.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Dire_Dawa (99 words)

	Nazret.com EthioBlog - Ethiopia - Dire Dawa faces uncertain future
		dire dawa is in somali region of ethiopia.....much love for oromos and oromia but dire dawa is in region 5(somali region)......finfine is an oromia city........throw the amharas and tigrays out of there.
		Dire Dawa is centre to somali national region its populated by somalis and the cities activities depends on the somali speaking neighbour of somalia and Djabouti, historical and current events proof that.
		Its dificult for the peopel to notis that dire dawa is somali city becouse 50% of gurgura clan speack oromo language.
	nazret.com /blog/index.php?title=ethiopia_dire_dawa_faces_uncertain_futur&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 (2243 words)

	Dire Dawa: Ethiopia's Ambitious Second City
		Dire Dawa chamber of commerce president Luigi Quartelli told Econoff that because of the city's multiethnic character, the former communist regime made it a separate administrative region directly under the jurisdiction of the prime minister.
		Second, Dire Dawa will soon be linked to the Somali, Jimma, Southern, and Bale regions through a "southern ring road." Construction of this road is underway, so Dire Dawa will soon have direct road connections to other parts of the country.
		Dire Dawa boasts important state-owned factories that give the city near independence from the rest of the country.
	www.geocities.com /~dagmawi/NewsApr99/Apr23_Dire_Dawa.html (1355 words)

	Floods kill (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ethiopian Red Cross official Kassahun Debelie in Dire Dawa said that many families held out hope that bodies of their missing relatives could at least be recovered for burial after the discovery of vehicles in the sand.
		Some 10,000 people are estimated to have been left homeless by the raging waters from two rivers, the Dechatu and Dire Dawa rivers, which broke their banks after heavy rains, and swept through the town and adjacent areas.
		Dire Dawa lies on a dry, crumbly desert shelf about 480 kilometers, or 300 miles, east of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital.
	www.addisvoice.com /news/Flood.htm (1415 words)

	More floods threaten Dire Dawa
		Sandbags were being used to reinforce banks of a river in Dire Dawa, some 310 miles from the capital, Addis Ababa, after it burst early Sunday morning, local police spokesman Binyam Fikru told The Associated Press.
		DIRE DAWA, Ethiopia (AFP) - Rescuers have clawed through mud and debris with their hands, garden tools and heavy equipment in eastern Ethiopia, searching for hundreds of people missing after lethal flash floods.
		While relatives began identifying victims of the weekend flooding in and around the provincial town of Dire Dawa, officials said 206 bodies had been recovered but the toll was expected to climb as 300 people were still unaccounted for.
	www.ethiomedia.com /carepress/dire_dawa_floods.html (1010 words)

	Ethiopian Reporter - Lifting up Dire Dawa by its bootstraps
		Dire Dawa differs from these cities, however, in that its growth has not been as vibrant as theirs not so much because of their fast-paced growth as its sluggish growth.
		It is in the midst of this situation that Dire Dawa was struck by flash floods that have exacted heavy human toll.
		If, for instance, anyone who invests in Dire Dawa for a specified period of time is entitled to obtain land for free and is exempted from payment of taxes, the investors who will flood to the city can together make it strong, the choice investment destination.
	www.ethiopianreporter.com /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=7623 (885 words)

	AfricaRevealed - Harar & Dire Dawa
		In stark contrast, nearby Dire Dawa is an upstart child of the 20th century which rose to importance as a staging post on the railway that links Addis Ababa with the port of Djibouti.
		Dire Dawa today is really two towns: new and old.
		New Dire Dawa is the wide-avenued, tree-lined railway settlement with its jacanrandas, and flamboyants, which was laid out by the French rail builders.
	www.africarevealed.com /page.jsp?className=node&nodeId=148 (829 words)

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		DIRE DAWA, Ethiopia â“ Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5 currently assigned to Combined Joint Task Force â“ Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, began assembling tents with the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Aug. 19 to house some of the approximately 6,000 people left without homes because of recent floods here.
		An estimated 250 people are confirmed dead and another 300 are still missing as a result of the four-meter-high wall of water that crashed through the city of Dire Dawa Aug. 6.
		Tsegereda Kifle, the health minister for the Dire Dawa region, approved setting up a medical clinic at a nearby school to provide emergency care to victims.
	usinfo.state.gov /articles/washfile-english/2006/08/20060828165158eanedlew0.3542444.xml (325 words)

	Situation Reports: Ethiopia: Floods - Aug 2006, Ethiopia: Dire Dawa Floods - OCHA Situation Report No. 4
		3) Flood History in Dire Dawa: The Dachatu, Goro and Butteji rivers flood seasonally as rain falls from the highlands of eastern Hararghe.
		The largest river, the Dachatu, has significantly shaped the morphology of Dire Dawa city by dividing it into two major parts.
		OCHA together with the Dire Dawa city council will chair local coordination activities in the affected area.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/HMYT-6SKMT4?OpenDocument (899 words)

	UN-HABITAT.:. Water for African Cities - Ethiopia \| Dire Dawa City Programme
		The main source of water supply for Dire Dawa is ground water.
		The goal of the Dire DAWA WAC II programme is to contribute towards the improvement of the living conditions of the urban poor by providing a foundation to address some of the critical areas of the urban water and sanitation challenges through direct impact demonstration activities in parallel with focused capacity building interventions.
		The following three objectives were identified to attain the goal for Dire Dawa:
	www.unhabitat.org /content.asp?typeid=19&catid=499&cid=3210 (149 words)

	MOFA: Emergency Assistance to Dire Dawa Region in eastern Ethiopia for Flood Disaster
		MOFA: Emergency Assistance to Dire Dawa Region in eastern Ethiopia for Flood Disaster
		Emergency Assistance to Dire Dawa Region in eastern Ethiopia for Flood Disaster
		The Government of Japan has decided to provide emergency assistance in kind (tents, sleeping mats, portable water tanks, water purifiers and plastic canteens) worth about 11 million yen to the Government of Ethiopia, which has sustained a large-scale flood disaster in Dire Dawa Region in the eastern part of the country.
	www.mofa.go.jp /announce/announce/2006/8/0815.html (226 words)

	Circus Dire Dawa visits Circus Hargeisa
		Being the last day of the Dire Dawa group's visit, it was agreed to hold the show in Gabile since this town is on the way to the border with Ethiopia.
		Cooperation between Dire Dawa and Hargeisa: It was agreed that frequent contacts between the two circuses should be encouraged in order to increase the capacity of both groups.
		Owing to the very scarce repair facilities in Hargeisa and Dire Dawa it was decided that it would be best not to create even precedents to this decision as to make it clear to the community that the equipment, notably the sound ssystem and generator are not available for rent under any circumstance.
	www.lefourneau.com /artistes/circus/ethiopie/cirques/circushargeisa/hargeisaddexch.htm (2581 words)

	Dire Dawa: Random Thoughts on a
		Dire Dawa, this piece of windswept and dusty land out of nowhere, this malaria infested country boasting no more than a collection of a few huts on its higher ground, was not initially meant to be an important railway terminal, or even a thriving town, or much less a commercial and industrial center.
		In spite of its aridity, and, no doubt, because of the drainage pattern just explained, Dire Dawa has always supported a rich verdure of the semi-desert type and as such presented a sharp contrast to the less endowed surrounding region especially along the rail track to the northeast in the direction of Djibouti.
		Moreover, Dire Dawa, especially in the southwestern and northern parts, teemed with wild animals originally.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2003/01/10-01-03/Dire.htm (2153 words)

	Ethiopians search for survivors of flood - The Boston Globe
		DIRE DAWA, Ethiopia -- Rescuers using earth movers and their bare hands searched for survivors yesterday, a day after flash floods killed at least 200 people, including dozens of children.
		Alemitu Natta, a mother of four, told The Associated Press she lost everything in the flooding in Dire Dawa, about 300 miles east of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
		Flooding killed 32 people in Dire Dawa in May 2005.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2006/08/08/ethiopians_search_for_survivors_of_flood (347 words)

	Harer (Harrar) and Dire Dawa, eastern Ethiopia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dire Dawa, or Diredawa, is a city of around 170 000 inhabitants, 55 km north west of Harer.
		It is a commercial and industrial centre located on the Addis Ababa - Djibouti railroad: there are railroad workshops in the city, a meat processing factory, and vegetable oil, textiles, and cement are also produced here.
		Dire Dawa was founded in 1902 when the railroad from Djibouti reached the area, and its growth has resulted largely from trade brought by the railroad.
	www.ozoutback.com.au /worldpics/Africa/Ethiopia/harrar-diredawa.html (299 words)

	chap41
		According to the females in Dire Dawa the males were saying, ‘The lubricant in the condom itself has the virus’ and ‘It [HIV] is designed to destroy us, the Africans.’ In Jijiga, the female OSY discussants strengthened this idea by suggesting reasons for their belief.
		The female OSY interviewee from Dire Dawa said, ‘Educational level does not matter in the case of HIV/AIDS.’ She said that what matters is ‘the individual’s thinking’.
		In contrast, the female ISY interviewee from Dire Dawa said that many people were abstaining and that she preferred abstinence for herself.
	www.etharc.org /publications/bss/chap41.htm (8157 words)

	IRIN Africa \| Horn of Africa \| Ethiopia \| ETHIOPIA: Flash flood damages houses in Dire Dawa \| Early Warning Natural ...
		It is the second time in less that a year that Dire Dawa, Ethiopia's second-largest town with a population of 400,000, suffers floods.
		Abraham Sahilu, head of the Disaster Prevention and Food Security Office in Dire Dawa, said a committee was formed and that a wall is now being constructed to block water from the main river.
		After the 2006 floods, the Dire Dawa interim administration allocated funds to build four banks in the Decahtu, Ashwa, and Hafcat areas of the town.
	www.irinnews.org /Report.aspx?ReportId=71582 (538 words)

	FDRE States-Basic Information, Dire-Dawa
		According to the census result, the major ethnic groups of the residents of Dire Dawa administrative council were found to be 48% Oromo, 27.7% Amahra, 13.9% Somali, 4.5% Guragie (2.3% Sebat Bet, 0.8% Sodo and 1.4% Silte) and 5.9% others.
		Dire Dawa Administrative Council is found at a distance of 515-KM southeast of Addis Ababa.
		Dire Dawa lies between 1000 to 2000 meters above sea level.
	www.ethiopar.net /English/basinfo/infodire.html (432 words)

	Fissah Zeryhun, Chief administrator of Dire Dawa Administrative Council (DDAC)
		In fact, Dire Dawa would need to have permanent relations with a French city, so that we could continue the exchanges and make use of foreign knowledge in diverse fields.
		The sole impact this Djiboutian policy had, was to deteriorate the global regional situation with acceleration of the social crisis and the unemployment, already high in Dire Dawa.
		In third position, the local development issues: Dire Dawa is divided in two major parts, Kezira and Megale, the latest being the poorest without any sanitation system.
	www.lesnouvelles.org /P10_magazine/15_grandentretien/15046_fissahzeryhun2eng.html (1057 words)

	Dire Dawa Photo Gallery by birabiro at pbase.com
		i was born & raised in kezira, dire dawa.
		dire the best city in the world i am proud that dire dawa is my home town, thank you for taking me through memory lane.
		I have lived and worked in and around Dire Dawa and your collection was marvellous, NUMBER ONE was where I used to stay and you just made me revisit my past.
	www.pbase.com /birabiro/dire_dawa (1095 words)

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