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Shinile is one of the 47 woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Shinile Zone, Shinile is bordered on the south by Dire Dawa, on the west by Erer, on the north and east by Ayesha, and on the southeast by Dembel. Towns in Shinile include Adigale, Harewa, Milo, and Shinile; villages include Jaldessa.

The average elevation in this woreda is 759 meters above sea level.[1] As of 2008, Shinile has 365 kilometers of community roads; about 20.2% of the total population has access to drinking water.[2] The track of the Addis Ababa - Djibouti Railway crosses this woreda, running in a direct course southwest from Adigale to Dire Dawa.

History

In mid-2003 Shinile suffered one of the worst shortages of food and water in the Somali Zone for food and water shortage, the Addis Tribune reported 31 October 2003. Products such as milk and butter were rarely available, and health care was virtually non-existent, with only one medical doctor to address the needs of 446,000 refugees.[3]

Shinile along with the neighboring Ayesha and Afdem woredas were reported to have had an outbreak of locusts in April, 2007. Despite extensive spraying in those woredas, an investigation on 3 May revealed 900 hectares near Harewa were still infested. Although measures to control this newly discovered group were taken, authorities predict the eastern part of Ethiopia will be attacked by a swarm in mid-June of that year.[4]

The Ethiopian De-mining Office reported in November 2008 that it had cleared land mines planted in Shinile as part of the four million square meters of land the office had cleared in the Somali Region.[5]

Demographics

Based on figures published by the Central Statistical Agency (CSA) in 2005, this woreda has an estimated total population of 113,630, of whom 53,000 are men and 60,630 are women; 27,166 or 23.91% of its population are urban dwellers, which is greater than the Zone average of 17.6%. Information is not available on the area of Shinile, so its density cannot be calculated.[6] This woreda is primarily inhabited by the Dir clan of the Somali people.

The 1997 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 89,116, of whom 48,218 were men and 40,898 were women; 18,218 or 20.44% of its population were urban dwellers. The largest ethnic group reported in Shinile was the Somali 88,362 (99.1%).[7]

Agriculture

A sample enumeration performed by the CSA in 2001 interviewed 2139 farmers in this woreda, who held an average of 0.17 hectares of land. Of the 359 hectares of private land surveyed, 64.9% was under cultivation, 19.22% pasture, 5.57% fallow, and 10.31% was devoted to other uses; the percentage in woodland was missing. For the land under cultivation in this woreda, 63.79% is planted in cereals like teff and sorghum, and none in pulses; the percentage for vegetables and root crops is missing. Permanent crops included 2.12 hectares planted in fruit trees. 34.5% of the farmers both raise crops and livestock, while 1.54% only grow crops and 63.96% only raise livestock. Land tenure in this woreda is distributed between 95.55% own their land, and the remaining 4.45% reporting are held under other forms of tenure; the numbers for those who rent are missing.[8]

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. "Local History in Ethiopia" The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 19 December 2007)
  4. ETHIOPIA: Locust threat in the east(IRIN)
  5. "Landmines Cleared From 4 Million Square Meters Of Land", Ethiopian News Agency, 20 November 2008 (accessed 17 June 2009)
  6. CSA 2005 National Statistics, Tables B.3 and B.4. Rural population numbers are believed to be underreported for this Region.
  7. 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.
  8. "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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