Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
The Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region ( Amharic ደቡብ ብሔሮች ብሔረሰቦችና ሕዝቦች, often transcribed Yeh - Däbub Bəheročč Bəheresäbočč - ənna Həzbočč, Ethiopia also YeDebub, " the South", English Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, often referred to as SNNPR abbreviated, also Southern Peoples, Nations and Nationalities, SPNN ) is one of nine administrative regions of Ethiopia. Capital of the region is Awassa.
Geography
The region lies in the southwest of the country, bordered on the south by Kenya, on the west by the South Sudan and within Ethiopia Gambela to the states in the north and Oromia in the north, east and southeast.
Other major places besides Awassa are Arba Minch, Wendo, Dilla, Yirga Alem, Worabe ( silts ), Sodo, Bonga, Mizan Teferi and Hosa'ina.
Semien Omo ( North Omo ), Sidama and Gurage are the most densely populated areas in the SNNPR. The population is concentrated in the north, east and center of the state. In contrast, the south and the west are sparsely populated. 90 % of the population lived in rural areas, bringing the SNNPR is the most rural region of the country.
Tourist destinations in the region are the Omo National Park and the Nechisar National Park.
Population
In contrast to the other Ethiopian states in which includes the vast majority of the population and titular each one people, the population of the SNNPR spread across at least 45 smaller ethnic and linguistic groups, many of which are as indigenous peoples are referred to and often still under relatively traditional terms live.
According to 2007 census were of 15,042,531 inhabitants, 19.34 % ( 2,908,491 ) Sidama, 10.71% ( 1.61119 million ) Wolaytta, 8.02% ( 1,206,891 ) Hadiyya, 7.52% ( 1,130,631 ) Gurage, 6.96% ( 1,046,519 ) Gamo, 5.43% ( 816 195 ) Kaffa, 5.36% ( 806 001 ) Silt'e, 4.92% ( 740 720 ) Gedeo, 3.81% ( 572 828 ) Kambaata, 3.29% ( 494 312 ) Dawro, 2.79% ( 420 243 ) Amhara, 2.39 % ( 359 805 ) Gofa, 2.33% ( 350 929 ) Bench, 1.89% ( 283 864 ) Aari, 1.57 % ( 236 182 ) Oromo, 1.46 % ( 218 925 ) Konso, 1.35% ( 202 847 ) Alaba and 1.01 % ( 142 608 ) Koorete and 1% ( 149 851 ) Me'en.
55.5 % were Protestant, 19.9% Ethiopian Orthodox Christians, 14.1% Muslims, 6.6% followers of traditional religions and 2.4% Catholics.
Languages
The numerous spoken languages in the region belong to five different language branches from two language families: the Cushitic, the omotischen and äthiosemitischen languages are associated with the Afro-Asiatic language family, and Nilotic languages surmische be counted for Nilo-Saharan family.
The census of 1994 shows as most widespread languages Sidama ( 18%), Gurage languages ( 14.72% ), Wolaytta ( 11.53 %), Hadiyya ( 8.53% ), Kaffa ( 5.22% ) and Kambaata ( 4.35% ) from. Other languages of the region are, inter alia, Gamo, Malo, Goffa and Gedeo. As a lingua franca and official working language is Amharic.
History and Politics
The Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region comprises the former provinces of Kaffa and Gamo - Gofa and parts of Sidamo and Shewa. In the restructuring of administrative divisions of Ethiopia along ethnic lines in 1991, the five regions Gurage - Hadiya - Kambata, Sidama, Walayta, Omo and Kafa were first formed. These were merged in 1994 to today's SNNPR. Parts of the border with the neighboring region of Oromia are controversial.
The ruling party in the region since 1992, the Democratic Movement of Südäthiopischen Peoples ( SEPDM ). This is part of the ruling coalition at the national level of the Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian peoples. As an opposition party in the region, the acts so far unsuccessful Democratic Alliance of the peoples of southern Ethiopia, which in turn is part of the electoral alliance of the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces.
Economy
2004-2005 100,338 tons of coffee were produced in the region, according to the CSA, which constitutes 44.2 % of total production in Ethiopia. The livestock consisted of cattle 7.93849 million (20.5% of the national herd ), 3.2702 million sheep ( 18.8%), 2.28997 million goats (17.6%), 298 720 horses 19.7%), 63.460 mules ( 43.1 %), 278 440 donkey ( 11.1%), 6.58614 million head of poultry ( 21.3 %) and 726 960 hives ( 16.7 %).
The infrastructure in the SNNPR is poorly developed and will be expanded in recent times by the authorities. Thus, according to the SNNPR Water Resources Bureau end of fiscal year 2006 had 54 % of the area of the region have access to clean drinking water, compared with 10-15 % 15 years earlier.