Hart Sheik

9.1543.35Koordinaten: 9 ° 9 ' N, 43 ° 21' O

Hartisheik (also hard Sheik, Hartishek ) is a village in the Woreda Kebri Beyah in the Jijiga Zone of the Somali Region of Ethiopia. It is located east of Jijiga in semi -arid area near the border with Somalia.

According to the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia for 2005 Hartisheik had 22 186 inhabitants. According to the census of 1997, there were 14 885 inhabitants of 93.36 % Somali, Amhara 2.57% and 2.49 % Oromo, Gurage lived beside it, Tigray and members of other ethnic groups in the city.

Refugee camp

In Hartisheik was a refugee camp. This was set up in 1988 for Somali refugees who fled northern Somalia in the fighting between the Somali government under Siad Barre and the SNM rebels. With approximately 250,000 refugees - mainly from the regions of Hargeysa and Gabiley - it was temporarily the largest refugee camp in the world.

In July 2004, the camp was officially closed, as now in northern Somalia - and since 1991, the de facto independent Somaliland - peace reigns supreme and most Somalis have returned there since 1997. However, up to 6,000 Ethiopian IDPs remained in Hartisheik. 2005 reported UNICEF and other organizations of high malnutrition rates in these displaced persons.

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  • Place in Somaliland
  • Refugee camp
  • History ( Ethiopia)
  • Place in Africa
Districts of Ethiopia Jijiga-Zone Somali (Region) Amhara people Gurage people Tigray-Tigrinya people Somali National Movement
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