Dera, Ethiopia
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Dera is a town in southeastern Ethiopia. Located in the Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of . It is the administrative center of Dodotana Sire woreda.
By the late 1960s, Dera was provided with electricity from a dam on the Awash River. In October 1969, Emperor Haile Selassie inaugurated a water supply system for the town built at a cost of Birr 170,000. The system drew water from the Awash II dam 10 kilometers away.[1] According to the Oromia Regional government, this town is currently supplied with electricity 24 hours a day, and has telephone service.[2]
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Dera has an estimated total population of 16,731, of whom 8,367 were males and 8,364 were females.[3]
On 17 May 1974, an official in Dera had a dispute with local farmers regarding land 7 kilometers away. The official returned with some city men and two police, and a fight with the locals ensued, in which two of the farmers and one of the police were killed. The local police at Asella wanted to occupy the site of the fight and place the inhabitants under military rule. The Governor General of Arsi Province refused to allow them to do this, but was himself soon arrested and removed.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b "Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 16 January 2008)
- ^ Socio-economic profile of Arsi Zone, Government of Oromia Region (last accessed 16 January 2008)
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.4
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