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28-783: The administrative center of Metekel Zone is Gilgil Beles ; other towns include Manbuk . The highest point is Mount Belaya (3,131 meters), which is part of the Dangur range . MIDROC Gold reported in 2009 that it was exploring the Zone for gold deposits. Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this Zone has a total population of 276,367, of whom 139,119 are men and 137,248 women. 37,615 or 13.61% of population are urban inhabitants. A total of 58,515 households were counted in this Zone, which results in an average of 4.72 persons to

56-793: A household, and 56,734 housing units. The five largest ethnic groups reported in the Metekel Zone were the Gumuz (39.78%), the Amhara (23.39%),the Shinasha (12.6%),the Awi (11.33%), a subgroup of the Agew , and the Oromo (10.09%); all other ethnic groups made up 1.81% of the population. Main languages are Gumuz (36.31%), Amharic (34.21%), Oromo (19.89%), Shinasha (12.81%) and Awngi (10.91%). Amharic

84-482: A latitude and longitude of 11°17′N 36°13′E  /  11.283°N 36.217°E  / 11.283; 36.217 . The city is located near the southern foot of Mount Belaya , at an elevation of 1200 meters. It is the administrative center of Dangur , and the largest settlement in that woreda . G.E.D. Allen passed through this town in 1941, which is opposite a gap in the Western Escarpment of

112-495: A road density of 28.4 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers, the average rural household has 1.4 hectare of land (compared to the national average of 1.01 hectare of land and an average of 2.25 for pastoral regions) and the equivalent of 0.6 heads of livestock. 10% of the population is in non-farm related jobs, compared to the national average of 25% and an average of 28% for pastoral regions. 93% of all eligible children are enrolled in primary school, and 25% in secondary schools. 68% of

140-627: Is a regional state in northwestern Ethiopia bordering Sudan . It was previously known as Region 6 . The region's capital is Assosa . Following the adoption of the 1995 constitution , the region was created from the westernmost portion of the Gojjam province (the part north of the Abay River ), and the northwestern portion of the Welega Province (the part south of the Abay). The name of

168-445: Is covered with forest, including bamboo , eucalyptus 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 resource. (This list is based on information from Worldstatesmen.org , John Young, and

196-466: Is spoken as a first language by 24% of the population and as a second language by another 10%. The majority of the inhabitants practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity , with 54.49% of the population reporting that they held that belief, while 20.31% were Muslim , 17.65% observed traditional religions, and 6.36% were Protestant . According to a May 24, 2004 World Bank memorandum, 8% of the inhabitants of Metekel have access to electricity, this zone has

224-713: The Ethiopian Highlands . Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this town has an estimated total population of 5,596, of whom 2,528 are men and 3,068 are women. According to the 1994 national census, its total population was 3,253, of whom 1463 were men and 1790 were women. This article about a location in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Benishangul-Gumuz Region Benishangul-Gumuz ( Amharic : በኒሸንጉል ጉሙዝ , romanized :  Benšangul Gumuz )

252-553: The Funj Sultanate in 1685. According to Negasso Gidada , Oromo penetration into the region began in the mid-18th century. In the first quarter of the 19th century, Arab traders arrived from Sennar , which was occupied by Ottoman Egypt from 1821. These traders married into the Berta upper class and thus gained political influence. By the middle of the century, the waṭāwiṭ , the descendants of Arabs and Berta, had become

280-571: The Metekel conflict began. In December 2019, about 200 people were killed in the Metekel massacre . The CSA of 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 (3.82%). Over 60% of this region

308-834: The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which overthrew the Mengistu regime in 1991 with the coalition EPRDF . As the Berta People's Liberation Movement or Benishangul People's Liberation Movement (BPLM), they - like the Gambella People’s Liberation Movement of the Anuak in Gambella - were not accepted as full members of the EPRDF, but became regional partners of the new ruling coalition. In 2019,

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336-712: The standard of living for Benishangul-Gumuz as of 2005 include the following: 19.1% of the inhabitants fall into the lowest wealth quintile; adult literacy for men is 47.4% and for women 23.2%; and the regional infant mortality rate 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 infants’ first month of life. There are 2 refugee camps and 1 transit center, housing 36,440 refugees from Sudan and South Sudan , located in Benishangul-Gumuz region. Religion in Benishangul-Gumuz Region (2007) Some of ethnic groups native to

364-428: 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. The area lay as a " buffer zone " or " no man's land " between southern Sennar and Damot in the highlands. The Ethiopian Emperor Susenyos invaded the area in 1617/18, and it fell to

392-468: The 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of 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 square kilometer. For the entire region 174,445 households were counted, which results in an average for

420-673: The Amhara and Tigrayans , who are known as Habesha (or "highlanders") are recent arrivals, who began to settle in the region during the Derg era. According to the 1994 census 44.1% of inhabitants were Muslim, 34.8% Orthodox Christians, 13.1% followers of traditional religions and 5.8% Protestants. According to the CSA, as of 2004 , 27.23% of the total population had access to safe drinking water , of whom 22.35% were rural inhabitants and 58.53% were urban. Values for other reported common indicators of

448-616: The Benishangul-Gumuz region are: Five of these ethnic groups (Benishangul, Gumuz, Shinasha, Mao and Kwama) are granted the exclusive right to non-territorially functioning indigenous councils. Like the Gambela Region , Benishangul-Gumuz is historically closely linked to neighbouring areas of Sudan, and to a lesser extent to the Ethiopian Highlands . These regions served as slave-hunting grounds since Aksumite times, and their Nilosaharan -speaking inhabitants were pejoratively called Shanqella (Šanqəlla, also Shanqila, Shankella) by

476-575: The Berta (27%), Gumuz (23%), Amhara (22%), Oromo (13%) and Shinasha (7%). Berta is spoken in the Sherkole woreda, Gumuz is spoken along the western boundary of Guba and Dangur woredas and in the Sirba Abbay woreda, and the Shinasha are a displaced people of Kaffa scattered across Welega and Gojjam . The Berta, Gumuz and Shinasha tend to have more in common with the people of neighbouring Sudan than with other Ethiopian peoples, while

504-634: The Mengistu regime here came mainly from the Berta. In addition, the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) - supported by the Eritrean People's Liberation Front , which in the meantime had advanced far south from Eritrea - also fought for the area in the Ethiopian civil war 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

532-543: 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 Berta (25.41%), Amhara (21.69%), Gumuz (20.88%), Oromo (13.55%), Shinasha (7.73%) and Agaw-Awi (4.22%). Main languages are the before;Berta (25.15%), Amharic (22.46%), Gumuz (20.59%), Oromo (17.69%), Shinasha (4.58%) and Awngi (4.01%). Concerning religion, 44.98% of

560-410: The central government on a large scale. Slaves were also smuggled into Sudan across the border, which was established in 1902. Under the regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam , who ruled Ethiopia from 1974, some 250,000 drought and famine-stricken peasants from the highlands—mostly Amharas from Wollo province —were relocated to Benishangul-Gumuz from 1979 and especially in the mid-1980s. Resistance to

588-412: The highland Ethiopians. Besides slaves, gold was traditionally an important export of Benishangul. 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 from

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616-488: The new road and bridge. Conditions for travel within zones varies, but is often poor and subject to disruption by the rainy season . 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 birr , and an additional 447 kilometers of roads constructed. Based on

644-537: The new ruling class. They also began to spread Islam among the Berta. Various trade routes met in Benishangul, and local gold and Ethiopian amole (salt bars) were exchanged for slaves, cattle, horses, iron, civet, musk, coffee, ivory and honey (which also came from the Oromo areas of Sibu and Leeqaa ). Luxury goods such as textiles and glass beads were imported via Sudan . Later in the 19th century, Benishangul

672-456: The population were Muslim , 33.3% were Orthodox Christians , 13.53% were Protestant , and 7.09% practiced traditional beliefs. It had a projected population of 1,127,001 in 2018. 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

700-530: The region comes from two peoples – Berta (also called Benishangul, which is its original name) and Gumuz . 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 Metekel Zone and the Assosa Zone

728-441: The zone is exposed to malaria , and 100% to Tsetse fly . The memorandum gave this zone a drought risk rating of 433. The Metekel conflict began in 2019. A massacre occurred on 23 December 2020. 11°00′N 35°45′E  /  11.000°N 35.750°E  / 11.000; 35.750 Manbuk Manbuk is a town in western Ethiopia . Located in the Metekel Zone of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region , Manbuk has

756-685: Was affected by the Mahdi uprising . In the late 19th century, Ethiopia, under Menelik II , annexed the Sultanates of Beni Shangul and Gubba (Qubba in Arabic) at the behest of Abdallahi ibn Muhammad of Sudan who feared the British 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

784-542: Was built by the China Construction Company in 2012. The road has a 365-meter bridge that crosses the Abay. Nowadays it is simple to travel between the regional capital of Assosa and Gilgil Beles , the capital of the Metekel Zone. Previously one had to travel through Wollega and Gojjam in the neighboring regions of Oromia and Amhara , a distance of 1,250 kilometers, but it is now around 378 kilometers on

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