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Topic: Sidama

	Abstract: Community Radio in Sidama
		Sidama is one of the administrative zones in southern Ethiopia.
		Sidama language is the language spoken by the Sidama people, 90% of whom do not speak Amharic/the national language/, or any other language beyond the Sidama language.
		Sidama radio is recently established radio station located in Yirgalem town 45k.m from Awassa, the zonal capital, or 320 kms south from Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
	www.ethiopiaknowledge.org /Sidama.htm (190 words)

	The Sidama Concern
		The personal intervention of PM Meles Zenawi who made a number of moves to undermine the Sidamas' demand for full regional status in place of the current zonal status under the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region only increased the resolve of Sidamas of all walks of life to materialise their demands.
		The Sidama Concern is seriously concerned about the ongoing situation in Sidama which has semblance to the 24 May 2002 genocidal massacre, also known as the Looqe Massacre.
		In Sidama, as a result of the May 2002 massacre, and in western Welega, as the heartland of OLF support, hostility to the regime runs very deep, and the declared results can only be the result either of heavy-handed government pressure before and during the vote, or else of fraud after it.
	www.sidamaconcern.com (3117 words)

	Gendered Scripts and Declining Soil Fertility in Southern Ethiopia
		Sidama is both the name of the administrative unit and the Sidama ethnic group.
		Fifty-two percent of sampled Sidama households report having 3 to 6 successors to the parents’ land and 56.7% of households claim that the dividing of land for married children is the biggest constraint to agricultural production.
		Traditionally the Sidama were polygamous, however with the expansion of Protestantism (currently 78% of Sidama households) beginning in the 1930s polygamy has gradually shrunk.50 Currently, 26% of households were polygamous, roughly proportional to the percentage of households belonging to religions condoning polygamy (Ethiopian Orthodox, Muslim, and Animist).
	web.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v6/V6i1a5.htm (8779 words)

	Sidama National Liberation Organisation - economy
		However, a substantial proportion of the Sidama land produces coffee which is the major cash crop in the area.
		However the benefits of the coffee revenue have never trickled down to the producers in Sidama area even during those periods of coffee booms as a result of which the region remained one of the most underdeveloped areas in the country.
		Although Sidama is said to have a good potential of mineral resources particularly in the Great East African Rift Valley and the eastern highlands of the Sidama land nothing has been done to exploit these resources.
	www.sidamanational-liberation.org /economy.htm (1028 words)

	The Sidama Concern Editorial Vol. 1. No. 1, 1996
		For well over a hundred years, when the Sidama nation fell under Abyssinian occupation, the historicity of Sidama was kept in dismal silence, borne of oppression and neglect.
		In this juncture, THE SIDAMA CONCERN encourages all interested scholars to communicate their findings (be it about Sidama, Ethiopia or this part of Africa) and send their studies for consideration for future issues.
		THE SIDAMA CONCERN is driven by firm belief that ideas, knowledge and information are the cornerstone for the progress of humanity and as such they contributed to betterment of life in different corners of the world.
	www.sidamaconcern.com /editorials/ed11.html (417 words)

	Sidama of Ethiopia - Religion & Beliefs
		The social organization in Sidama is changing because of the education, political changes, contacts with different people from other regions and provinces and religions.
		Since the Sidama people are organized according to clans, the common ancestor of each clan receives special respect and is paid homage in terms of appreciation that the people came into existence through his instrumentality.
		Customarily the Sidama people do not practice of fasting, and even the fasting of the consecrated people could be because of their being too busy reconciling and solving problems in the community before the new year.
	www.afrikaworld.net /afrel/sidama.htm (5305 words)

	Oromia Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Politics of Genocide — The Case of Sidama - This paper uncovers a serious of policies of the Ethiopian government intended to destroy the social, economic and political fabric of oppressed people who are demanding respect for their basic rights.
		Today prominent Sidama professionals, businessmen, NGO leaders, outspoken elderly and students are subjected to removal from their jobs, persecution, harassment, imprisonment, and disappearances by the Ethiopian government.
		The current plan to uproot Sidamas from their city is an unprecedented act of human rights violation.
	www.oromia.com /News.htm (3395 words)

	UN says making poor farmers repay loans "immoral" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It said many farmers in Sidama Zone in southern Ethiopia were already relying heavily on humanitarian help from charities and could not repay their loans.
		Sidama Zone, about 275 km south of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, is one of the zones in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Regional State.
		"Generally, the poor productivity of crops in the last two years in Sidama Zone can be attributed on one hand to the application of no or inadequate fertiliser quantities and [on the other hand] to the use of inappropriate, poor and degenerated seeds of maize," the report said.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=28298 (714 words)

	Looqe
		The governance of Sidama was never stable and democratic as central government directly appoints zonal chairpersons and all the zonal executive committees through TPLF “advisors” or "watchdogs".
		The object of the demonstrators is not the act of 'thieves and robbers; as the government claims, but of quest by farmers and residents who fear being driven off their land and deep- seated question of regional statehood in line with countries constitution.
		Therefore, the Sidamas resistance not to be evicted from their land and not to lose their capital is a legitimate defence of its liberties and privileges is not irresponsible particularism at the expense of other southern nations.
	www.debub.net /voices/a_neglected_human_rights_tragedy.htm (5223 words)

	Pueblo Sidama
		Desde su incorporación al Estado etíope, hace más de cien años, la organización social Sidama está en constante cambio debido a las legislaciones del gobierno central, los cambios en la educación y sus relaciones con otros pueblos y gentes de muy diversa procedencia cultural y de creencias religiosas diferentes a las creencias.
		Momentos importantes en la vida social Sidama (matrimonios, fiestas, guerras, etc.) son sometidos a la consulta de los ayyaanto (astrólogos), que en función de la posición en que ese encuentren las estrellas aconsejarán las fechas oportunas para la llevar adelante estos actos.
		La relación de los Sidama con Magano tiene siempre un carácter colectivo, desde la invocación diaria del dirigente familiar, en nombre de la familia, hasta los sacrificios que la comunidad pueden ofrecerle.
	www.ikuska.com /Africa/Etnologia/Pueblos/sidamo/index.htm (1075 words)

	Livestock and the Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In Sidama, Southern Ethiopia, a similar pattern was already described in 1975 by Ayele who stated that “cultivation has been and is invading livestock grazing areas.
		“Sidama”, which means “foreigner” was the name used by the Oromo during their expansion from the eastern Ethiopian highlands into the Awraja (Biasiutti 1959).
		The prevalent farming system of the midlands of Sidama is under stress mainly because of burgeoning human population.
	www.fao.org /WAIRDOCS/LEAD/X6143E/X6143E00.HTM (5076 words)

	Sidama
		It is to be noted that the estimated ten thousand Sidama demonstrators consisting of peasants, government workers and school children were unarmed and were only waving Ethiopian flag and placards.
		This is an irresponsible act of disinformation because independent eye witness reports showed that the two policemen were members of Sidama nationality and were trying to persuade the demonstrators not to proceed towards Awassa town.
		This has created an unfortunate situation whereby our voices of opposition to the monstrous acts of the regime and the woes of the suffering masses are totally disregarded and are dismissed as irrelevant by the ruling party.
	www.debub.net /voices/Massacre%20of%20the%20Sidama.htm (675 words)

	Ethiopia Cushitic Language Groups
		In fact, most Sidama, although calling themselves by a single name in some contexts, traditionally are divided into a number of localized and formerly politically autonomous patrilineal clans, each under a chief.
		The Sidama and other Highland East Cushitic speakers are cultivators of ensete and of coffee as a cash crop.
		The Sidama and other groups have retained their traditional religious systems, although some have been responsive to Protestant missionaries.
	www.country-studies.com /ethiopia/cushitic-language-groups.html (1609 words)

	Ethiopia: Dr. Million Tumato Arrested
		Million was among the seven thousand people from the city of Awassa, the capital of Ethiopia's southern region, and from the nearby villages who staged a five-kilometer protest march on May 24, 2002.
		Members of the Sidama community organized the nonviolent march in opposition to the Ethiopian government's proposal to make Awassa a federal city, which would have resulted in moving the Sidama zone capital to another city.
		Two police officers were also killed; regional officials blame their deaths on the protestors, while others claim they died as a result of police disagreements about shooting orders.
	www.phrusa.org /campaigns/colleagues/ethiopia_091202.html (980 words)

	Mailgate: soc.culture.ethiopia.misc: ETHIOPIA: Rights group blames government for Awassa killings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The five-page document said police opened fire indiscriminately on the protestors - all from the Sidama ethnic group - who had been trying to end their demonstration in the town square of Awasa.
		Awasa is currently the capital of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Regional State, one of the countryâs nine federal regions, and administered by the Sidama ethnic group.
		The demonstration, in which up to 3,000 people took part, was held to protest against changing its status to that of a special zone.
	mailgate.supereva.it /soc/soc.culture.ethiopia.misc/msg02855.html (411 words)

	Sidama National Liberation Organisation - Sidaamu dagoomu wolaphphote uurrinshsha
		The Abuse of the Sidama Women by the EPRDF regime of Ethiopia.
		God (Magano), Spirit (Ayaana), and Ancestors (Anuwa Akaakate Ayaana) are the fundamental elements of faith for the Sidamas and are an integral parts of their lives.
		Above all, the Sidama nations' morality and moral value lies on the true way of life which in Sidama language "Halaale".
	www.sidamanational-liberation.org (514 words)

	Ethiopia: ICRC gears up to assist up to one million victims of conflict and drought (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		On the basis of its field assessments, the ICRC is targeting extremely vulnerable subsistence farmers living mainly in lowland areas experiencing up to 90% crop failure, and who are exposed to potential security threats or marginalization.
		The areas targeted are Erob region, in north-eastern Tigray, the lowlands of Wolayita and Sidama zones of the SNNPRS -- Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Regional State -- and the lowlands of Eastern and Western Hararghe in Oromia.
		Tension between the Wolayita and Sidama communities is high in the SNNPRS, and Eastern and Western Hararghe in Oromia are affected by the presence of the Oromo Liberation Front.
	www.icrc.org /web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList281/415DF525BE8B4EBDC1256C920050DB5F (1612 words)

	Ethiopia - Oromo Migrations and Their Impact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the mid-sixteenth century, its political and military organization already weakened by the Muslim assault, the Christian kingdom began to be pressured on the south and southeast by movements of the Oromo (called Galla by the Amhara).
		At this time, the Oromo, settled in far southern Ethiopia, were an egalitarian pastoral people divided into a number of competing segments or groups but sharing a type of age-set system of social organization called the gada system, which was ideally suited for warfare.
		In the south, the Sidama fiercely resisted the Oromo, but, as in the central and northern highlands, they were compelled to yield at least some territory.
	www.countrystudies.us /ethiopia/11.htm (510 words)

	UNICEF - Ethiopia - Malnutrition takes its toll on Ethiopia’s families
		With UNICEF’s help, the Ethiopian government is conducting emergency surveys to identify areas of malnutrition in Sidama Zone, one of the 64 drought-affected woredas (districts) in the Southern Nations and Nationalities and Peoples Regional State.
		The center is located 40 kilometres from Awassa, the capital.
		Sidama Zone is one of the most densely populated areas of Ethiopia.
	www.unicef.org /infobycountry/ethiopia_15223.html (323 words)

	Oxfam America: Holes in the Safety Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The average landholding in Sidama is 0.25 hectares and less than 0.25 in Boloso Sore, where 30% of the population is landless.
		In the past, enset has helped to offset the major episodes of acute hunger in areas like Boloso Sorie and Sidama, but the damage to the enset system is now having very serious consequences.
		Oxfam is working with the Center for Development Initiative (CDI) to distribute enset to the drought-prone areas of Siraro and Shashemere in the Rift Valley.
	www.oxfamamerica.org /whatwedo/where_we_work/ethiopia/news_publications/art5760.html (631 words)

	Oxfam America: Interview: Shalo Shako (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Children greet visitors in the Sidama region, southern Ethiopia.
		This region yields the highest quality coffee in the world, and yet is impoverished in the midst of a market crisis.
		I am from the Arba Gona district of the Sidama Zone.
	www.oxfamamerica.org /newsandpublications/news_updates/archive2003/art4735.html (589 words)

	Ethiopian police kill at least 12 protesters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Awasa, located 250 km (150 miles) south of the capital Addis Ababa, is the capital of the Southern Nations and Nationality state, one of the country's nine federal regions.
		It is administered by representatives of the local ethnic group, the Sidama.
		Plans by Ethiopia's central government to shift control of the town to the regional government have angered the Sidama people living in and around Awasa.
	www.oromia.org /News/Awasa_Massacre.htm (432 words)

	Savor Shirkina Sun-Dried Sidamo Exclusively at Starbucks; Taking a Risk, Starbucks Helps Create New Coffee, Potential ...
		Coffee farmers often face a shortage of cash before harvest, which may force them to sell their crops early to local buyers for prices lower than what they might otherwise earn, or may cause them to forsake investments in improved farming techniques, structures, and equipment.
		The loan to Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union is part of a $5 million coffee producer financing arrangement Starbucks has developed with EcoLogic Finance, a Cambridge, Mass.-based non-profit organization that offers affordable financial services to community-based businesses operating in environmentally sensitive areas.
		The loan to Sidama represents the first time a coffee cooperative in Ethiopia has been able to access affordable credit.
	www.csrwire.com /article.cgi/4499.html (1140 words)

	Sitrep template
		As the situation is very serious and further resources are yet to be secured, EECMY has made a two-time distribution of 220Mt of maize in Sidama zone and another distribution of 110Mt of maize in Hadiya zone.
		The 300MT of famix that was reserved for emergency from the 1100Mt locally purchased by the Finnchurch Aid fund is allocated to Rayitu and Ginnir weredas in Bale, Hagere Mariam wereda in Borena, Sidama and Konso feeding centres in SNNPR.
		HCS has conducted a nutritional survey of Shinile, in coordination with UNICEF, the result of which will be made available in the coming week.
	www.act-intl.org /news/dt_nr_2000/ethi_sit0500.html (2044 words)

	International Medical Corps \| Avoiding Disaster in Ethiopia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		An IMC team composed of a doctor, nutritionist, and logistician conducted an assessment in Bolosso Sore wareda, Wolaita zone and Awassa Zuria, Sidama zone in SNNP region of Ethiopia from April 16-18, 2003.
		In some areas of these two woredas women and young children are traveling anywhere from two to eight hours to fetch water.
		In Sidama zone, according to the rural development coordination department, this year the harvest provided only 49% of the population’s needs as compared to past years, when the community was receiving 96% of its income from the sale of agricultural products.
	www.imc-la.org /fieldnotes/ethiopiaAbla.html (1004 words)

	flag of Sidama Liberation Front (Ethiopia) flags
		According to the organization website, the Sidama Liberation Front has a 3:5 flag, horizontally divided red-white-blue.
		In the new system, the former Sidama region is now included in Oromia and Southern State.
		Sidamo language is rattached to the Kushitic branch of Chamito-Semitic languages, as well as, among other languages spoken in the Eastern African horn, Afar-Saho, Galla, and Somali.
	www.flags-of-the-world.net /flags/et}sid.html (185 words)

	SudanTribune article : Electoral Board of Ethiopia to probe 146 complaints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Out of the 149 complaints submitted by the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF) some 40 have met the requirement to be investigated, according to the team.
		Six of the eight complaints presented by the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM), two of the three complaints submitted by the Sidama Liberation Movement (SLM) as well as complaint lodged by one individual candidate would be investigated.
		Some three of the nine complaints presented by the Sidama Hadicho Peoples’ Democratic Organization (SHPDO) would be investigated.
	www.sudantribune.com /article.php3?id_article=10253 (383 words)

	The Tree Against Hunger
		Domesticated enset (also classified taxonomically as Ensete ventricosum) is planted at elevations ranging from 1,100 to more than 3,000 meters, indicating the extent to which its natural distribution has been expanded artificially through domestication.
		One such sub-system is where enset is the staple food and main crop.
		Such groups as the Sidama and Gurage grow enset (Figure 2.2) in dense plantations, and are highly dependent upon cattle to produce manure for fertilizing enset fields (Plate 3).
	www.aaas.org /international/africa/enset/descrip.shtml (1027 words)

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