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Kebri Beyah

Qabri Bayax
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View of Kebri Beyah
CountryEthiopia
RegionSomali
ZoneJijiga
Elevation
1,609 m (5,279 ft)
Population
 (2005)
 • Total98,076
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)

Kebri Beyah (Somali: [Qabribayax] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) is one of the 52 woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Jijiga Zone, Kebri Beyah is bordered on the south by the Degehabur Zone, on the west by the Oromia Region, on the northwest by Jijiga, on the north by Awbere, on the northeast by Somalia, and on the southeast by Harshin. The administrative center of the woreda is Kebri Beyah; other towns in Kebri Beyah include Hart Sheik.

The average elevation in this woreda is 1530 meters above sea level.[1] The only perennial rivers in Kebri Beyah are the Fafen and the Jerer. As of 2008, Kebri Beyah has 55 kilometers of asphalt road, 48 of all-weather gravel road and 2642 kilometers of community roads; about 13.1% of the total population has access to drinking water.[2]

The Ethiopian De-mining Office reported in November 2008 that it had cleared land mines planted in Kebri Beyah as part of the four million square meters of land the office had cleared in the Somali Region.[3]

Demographics

Based on figures published by the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this woreda has an estimated total population of 204,706, of whom 98,055 are men and 106,651 women; 35,378 or 17.28% of its population are urban dwellers, which is less than the Zone average of 22.5%. Information is not available on the area of Kebri Beyah, so its population density cannot be calculated.[4]

The 1997 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 162,474, of whom 85,974 were men and 76,500 women; 23,725 or 14.6% of its population were urban dwellers. The largest ethnic group reported in Kebri Beyah was the Somali 160,785 (99.0%).[5]

Agriculture

A sample enumeration performed by the CSA in 2001 interviewed 17,209 farmers in this woreda, who held an average of 1.15 hectares of land. Of the 19.8 square kilometers of private land surveyed, 75.11% was under cultivation, 11.21% pasture, 12.4% fallow, and 1.29% was devoted to other uses; the area in woodland is missing. For the land surveyed in this woreda, 61.29% was planted in cereals like teff, sorghum and maize, and 0.53% in pulses; the area planted in root crops and vegetables is missing. Permanent crops included 2539 hectares planted in khat, and 41.84 in fruit trees. 88.59% of the farmers both raised crops and livestock, while 4.29% only grew crops and 7.11% only raised livestock. Land tenure in this woreda was distributed amongst 98.02% owning their land, 0.94% renting, and the remaining 1.04% holding their land under other forms of tenure.[6]

Notes

  1. Hailu Ejara Kene, Baseline Survey of 55 Weredas of PCDP Phase II, Part I (Addis Ababa: August 2008), Annex 1 (accessed 23 March 2009)
  2. Hailu Ejara Kene, Baseline Survey, Annexes 16, 17
  3. "Landmines Cleared From 4 Million Square Meters Of Land", Ethiopian News Agency, 20 November 2008 (accessed 17 June 2009)
  4. CSA 2005 National Statistics, Tables B.3 and B.4. Rural population numbers are believed to be underreported for this Region.
  5. 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1 Tables 2.1, 2.12 (accessed 10 January 2009). The results of the 1994 census in the Somali Region were not satisfactory, so the census was repeated in 1997.
  6. "Central Statistical Authority of Ethiopia. Agricultural Sample Survey (AgSE2001). Report on Area and Production - Somali Region. Version 1.1 - December 2007" (accessed 26 January 2009)

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