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'''Gewane''' is a town in northeastern [[Ethiopia]]. Located in [[Administrative Zone 3 (Afar)|Administrative Zone 3]] of the [[Afar Region]], it has an elevation of 618 meters above sea level. Gewane is locally known as '''New Gewane''', 2 kilometers east of the original settlement known as '''Old Gewane'''; the town was relocated astride the main, all-weather highway.<ref>[http://www.africa.upenn.edu/eue_web/awash96jun.htm Awash river floods (Afar Regional State): Helicopter Survey, 5 June 1996], UNDP Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia report, dated June 1996 (accessed 11 January 2009)</ref> It is the administrative center of [[Gewane (woreda)|Gewane]] [[woreda]]. |
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Based on figures from the [[Central Statistical Agency (Ethiopia)|Central Statistical Agency]] in 2005, this town has an estimated total population of 11,032, of whom 6,304 were males and 4,728 were females.<ref>[http://www.csa.gov.et/text_files/2005_national_statistics.htm CSA 2005 National Statistics], Table B.4</ref> According to the 1996 national census this town has a population of 8,600.<ref>The results of the 1994 census in the Afar Region were not satisfactory, so the census was repeated in 1996.</ref> |
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Philip Briggs has described Gewane as "a somewhat unremarkable urban sprawl, distinguished only by the imposing presence of [[Mount Ayalu|Mount Azelu]], an isolated peak of volcanic origin which rises almost 1,000m above the surrounding plains east of the town."<ref>Philip Briggs, ''Ethiopia: The Bradt Travel Guide'', 3rd edition (Chalfont St Peters: Bradt, 2002), p. 342</ref> The headquarters of the [[Yangudi Rassa National Park]] are located in Gewane. |
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The British explorer L. M. Nesbitt, who travelled through the area in the 1920s, described his stay of a couple of days in a village here. The National Afar Liberation Movement, run by young intellectuals, met in Gewane with the [[Derg]] in April 1976 at an Afar congress. The principle of complete autonomy was recognised, but it became a forgotten promise after the [[Ogaden War]]. The weekly newspaper ''Tobiya'' reported in January 1996 that three high ranking employees of the Water Resource and Development Authority had been killed near the town.<ref>[http://130.238.24.99/library/resources/dossiers/local_history_of_ethiopia/g/ORTGES.pdf "Local History in Ethiopia"] (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 27 December 2007)</ref> |
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== References == |
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[[Category:Cities, towns and villages in the Afar Region]] |
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{{Afar-geo-stub}} |
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[[fr:Gewane]] |
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