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Ethiopia (CSA), the Benishangul-Gumuz Region has a total population of 784,345, consisting of 398,655 men and 385,690 women; urban inhabitants number 105,926 or 13.51% of the population. With an estimated area of 49,289.46 square kilometers, this Region has an estimated density of 15.91 people per
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Little is known about its history before the 19th century. Archaeologists have found sites that they date to the end of the 1st millennium BC or the beginning of the 1st millennium AD and assign them to the forerunners of today's Komuz-speaking ethnic groups. Finds attributing them to the Berta date
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would occupy it. In 1898, Asosa became the political and economic capital. Until the
Italian occupation of Ethiopia in the mid-1930s, the area supplied gold and slaves to the central government on a large scale. Slaves were also smuggled into Sudan across the border, which was established in 1902.
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Ethiopia estimated in 2005 that farmers in Benishangul-Gumuz had a total of 307,820 head of cattle (representing 0.79% of Ethiopia's total cattle), 65,800 sheep (0.38%), 244,570 goats (1.88%), 1,770 mules (1.2%), 37,520 asses (1.5%), 732,270 poultry of all species (2.37%), and 166,130 beehives
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and rubber trees, incense and gum forests as well as the indigenous species. However, due to increased population which has led to the widespread destruction of the canopy, authorities announced a campaign on 8 June 2007 to plant 1.5 million seedlings over the next two months to replenish this
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In the previous census, conducted in 1994, the region's population was reported to be 460,459 of which 233,013 were men and 227,446 were women. Rural population was 424,432, while the urban population was 36,027. The five largest ethnic groups in
Benishangul-Gumuz were the Berta (27%),
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The region has faced major challenges to economic development, due to lack of transportation and communications infrastructure. The Abay River (Blue Nile) divides
Benishangul-Gumuz, and there was no bridge crossing it until 2012. The major road that connects the
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square kilometer. For the entire region 174,445 households were counted, which results in an average for the Region of 4.5 persons to a household, with urban households having on average 3.6 and rural households 4.7 people. The ethnic groups include the
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from the 17th to 20th centuries and are mainly located on mountains, hills and in rocky areas that are easy to defend. It was not until the mid-20th century that Berta also settled in the lowlands, as slave hunts and armed conflict had ended.
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853:, who ruled Ethiopia from 1974, some 250,000 drought- and famine-stricken peasants from the highlandsâmostly Amharas from Wollo provinceâwere relocated to Benishangul-Gumuz from 1979 and especially in the mid-1980s.
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781:-speaking inhabitants were pejoratively called Shanqella (Ĺ anqÉlla, also Shanqila, Shankella) by the highland Ethiopians. Besides slaves, gold was traditionally an important export of Benishangul.
402:. On 28 July 2009, the Regional Rural Roads Authority reported that over the previous year almost 600 of the 800 kilometers of local all-weather roads had been upgraded at a cost of 11.5 million
398:, a distance of 1,250 kilometers, but it is now around 378 kilometers on the new road and bridge. Conditions for travel within zones varies, but is often poor and subject to disruption by the
822:, the descendants of Arabs and Berta, had become the new ruling class. They also began to spread Islam among the Berta. Various trade routes met in Benishangul, and local gold and Ethiopian
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in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The OLF tried to incorporate the local population as "black Oromo", but met with little support. The Berta rebels instead allied with the
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is 84 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, which is greater than the nationwide average of 77; at least half of these deaths occurred in the infantsâ first month of life.
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began. In December 2019, about 200 people were killed in the
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Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe
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1458:"Ethiopia and the Mahdiyya â You Call Me a Chicken?"
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Map of Benishangul-Gumuz Region at DPPA of Ethiopia
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1841:List of districts in the Benishangul-Gumuz region
1512:Evil Days: 30 Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia
1067:List of districts in the Benishangul-Gumuz region
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1603:Map of Benishangul-Gumuz Region at UN-OCHA
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1527:45/3 (2007)
1167:John Young
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951:after 1991
899:Agriculture
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691:Agew people
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509:Sirba Abbay
384:Assosa Zone
2036:Categories
1905:Agalo Mite
1849:Asosa Zone
1484:2023-01-06
1329:2021-08-29
1319:"FOREWORD"
1303:2012-05-23
1154:2018-09-13
920:resource.
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1078:Notes
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