Negele Borana ( Amharic : ነጌሌ ቦረና ) is a town and separate woreda in southern Ethiopia . Located on the road connecting Addis Ababa to Moyale , it is the capital of the newly-established East Borana Zone of the Oromia Region . Negelle Borana is the largest city traditionally inhabited by the Borana Oromo . It has a latitude and longitude of 5°20′N 39°35′E / 5.333°N 39.583°E / 5.333; 39.583 with an altitude of about 1,475 meters above sea level. It is surrounded by Liben woreda.
19-546: The town is reported to have telephone service, a post office and electricity, as well as at least one primary and one secondary school, but no financial institutions. The electrical power was introduced by a branch of the Ethiopian Electric Light and Power Authority (EELPA), and in January 1961 a diesel-driven 120 kW electric power plant for the town was completed. A 2004 report states that Negele Borana
38-625: A frontier town, a cultural boiling pot that is predominantly Oromo but also has strong Somali , and Muslim influences. ... Negele Borana's distinctive character and cultural blend are personified in one of the most lively and absorbing markets in East Africa -- especially on Sundays when the camel market is held." The town of Negele Borana was founded in the early 20th century; the Swedish doctor F. Hylander described it in 1934 as an " Amhara new settlement and fortress with palisades", which
57-406: A hot semi-arid climate: afternoons are very warm and mornings comfortable all year round: in fact Negele Borana is only 1 °C or 1.8 °F above being classified as a cool semi-arid climate ( BSk ). The 2007 national census reported a total population for this town of 35,264, of whom 18,351 were men and 16,913 were women. The majority of the inhabitants said they were Muslim , with 54.89% of
76-642: Is an Ethiopian electrical power industry and state-owned electric producer . It is engaged in development , investment , construction , operation , and management of power plants , power generation and power transmission . The company is a main key in the Ethiopian energy sector . Ethiopian Electric Power owns and operates the Ethiopian national power grid with all high voltage power transmission lines above 66 kV including all attached electrical substations and almost all power plants within
95-593: Is not part of the business operations of Ethiopian Electric Power either. The company was formed in 1956 as the Ethiopian Electric Light & Power Authority (EELPA), which bundled all Ethiopian activities around electricity in a single organization. In 1996, EELPA was split into the Ethiopia Electric Authority (EEA), taking over all regulating activities and a company, Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo), bundling all activities from power generation to household delivery. In 2013, EEPCo
114-765: Is supplied with electricity by the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (the successor utility to the EELPA) from the national grid. There is also an airport . Negele Borana Military Base, an important installation of the Ethiopian Army , is located to the northeast of the city. A barrack revolt at this base on 12 January 1974 marked the beginning of the Ethiopian Revolution that overthrew the monarchy of Haile Selassie. Philip Briggs describes Negele Borana as "something of
133-677: The Ethiopian Army had garrisoned this "half-built Italian settlement". The Norwegian Lutheran Mission operated a station in Negele Borana from 1949. Their most important activity was to start a hospital for the town in one of the abandoned Italian buildings, which they operated until 1956 when the Ministry of Public Health took it over. In 1958, Negele Borana was one of 27 places in Ethiopia ranked as First Class Township. On 12 January 1974, enlisted men and non-commissioned officers of
152-675: The Somali Army attempted to capture Negele Borana throughout August 1977, but the local garrison was able to beat back the attacks. Rights activists in southern Oromia reported to Human Rights Watch that students, farmers, and business people had been detained in Negele Borana. As of 25 January 2010 several hundred people, mostly affiliated with the Oromo People's Congress , were said to be still incarcerated in Negele borana jail. These arrests reportedly were in response to protests about
171-779: The Fourth Brigade stationed at the Military Base protested over their substandard living conditions. "There was nothing new about discontent among soldiers serving in the desolate conditions in these far-flung garrisons," note Marina and David Ottaway. "The heat was unbearable, the food barely edible, and the water was bad or in short supply". The last straw was when the officers refused to let the soldiers use their well after their own water pump broke down. The soldiers arrested their superior officers and petitioned Emperor Haile Selassie for redress of their grievances. The Emperor sent Lieutenant-General Deresse Dubale to investigate
190-545: The activities of mining companies in the region, which the authorities attributed to the opposition. Negele Borana has an altitude-moderated hot semi-arid climate ( Köppen BSh ), resembling Kenya rather than more northerly parts of Ethiopia. There are two short wet seasons in April-May and October-November, and these four months combine for 445 millimetres (17.52 in) of a total annual rainfall of 550 millimetres (21.65 in). Temperatures are much milder than usual for
209-513: The matter; the mutineers took him prisoner, forced him to eat and drink as they did, then tied him up and put him under a tree for eight hours while they negotiated with the defense ministry. Furious, the Emperor sent two bombers to overfly the garrison and intimidate them to release Deresse, but did not punish the soldiers. The whole incident was hushed up for a while. During the Ogaden War ,
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#1732776825595228-446: The national power grid (with the exception of some co-generation power plants belonging to the state-owned Ethiopian Sugar Corporation ). Ethiopian Electric power is almost the state monopoly in generating electric power for the national power grid, although Ethiopia also allows Independent Power Producers to construct and to operate power plants for delivering power to the national grid since 2017. Electric power distribution and
247-634: The operation of power transmission lines of ≤66 kV within the national power grid is not part of the activities of Ethiopian Electric Power, that is done by the also state-owned sister company Ethiopian Electric Utility . Small and isolated self-contained power generation systems and power plants not attached to the national power grid do also exist in Ethiopia with generation capacities of up to 5MW e . These local power producers do not belong to Ethiopian Electric Power and can be privately owned or owned by regional authorities. The power transmission and power distribution from those self-contained power plants
266-583: The party was forced to change its name to Oromo People's Congress prior to the 2008 by-elections . OPC merged with Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM), forming the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), in 2012. Until the 2005 Ethiopian general elections the OPC had not attempted to build a permanent base of support outside its leader’s home region in Ambo woreda . In that election, as
285-596: The population reporting they observed this belief, while 34.25% of the population practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity , 8.24% were Protestant , and 2.34% practiced traditional beliefs. The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 23,997 of whom 12,036 were men and 11,961 women. This article about a location in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ethiopian Electric Power Ethiopian Electric Power ( Amharic : የኢትዮጵያ ኤሌክትሪክ ኃይል )
304-569: Was "the farthest outpost towards Jubbaland ". At the beginning of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War from 4 October 1935, Negele Borana served as the headquarters of Ras Desta Damtew . The Italians subjected the town to frequent bombing raids. The Italians under General Rodolfo Graziani captured the town shortly after their victory at the Battle of Ganale Dorya , which further weakened the southern Ethiopian defenses. The town
323-727: Was a federalist and Oromo nationalist opposition political party in Ethiopia . It was founded in April 1996 as the Oromo National Congress by Merera Gudina , who was its chairman. However, the party licence and name were allegedly given to a marginal splinter group by the National Election Board of Ethiopia in order to undermine the party and create confusion among the voters after the May 2005 election, so
342-491: Was again split up into two companies, Ethiopian Electric Utility and Ethiopian Electric Power . Ethiopian Electric Power was formed by Council of Ministers Regulation No.302/2013. The first (2013) CEO of Ethiopian Electric Power was Azeb Asnake , replaced in August 2018 by Abraham Belay . In 2016, Ethiopian Electric Power had more than 3500 employees. Oromo People%27s Congress The Oromo People's Congress (OPC)
361-535: Was occupied by the British Gold Coast Brigade on 27 March 1941, who had pushed north from Dolo . The British colonial unit found that the Italians had abandoned the settlement 10 days before they arrived, and in the time between the buildings had been looted and destroyed by the neighboring Borena Oromo . By the time David Buxton visited Negele Borana in 1943, he found that a battalion of
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