Gode
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Gode
Godey ( UTC+3 (EAT) | |
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postal code | 3040 |
Area code | +251 |
Gode (
History
During the 1960s, in spite of the threat of tropical water diseases, the Ethiopian government launched the Webi Shabelle Valley Irrigation Programme which was based in Gode . However, attacks by the Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF) on French hydrologists resulted in the programme being scrapped.[1]
Before the start of the
Despite the end of the Ogaden War, the WSLF retained full control of the Gode region long after the Somali Army had systematically withdrawn from the Ogaden in March 1978. Ethiopian units under Brigadier-General Demisse Bulto, commander of the First Revolutionary Army, recaptured Gode during Operation Lash on November 1980. Ethiopian troops used the city as one of its three bases to successfully clear the rest of eastern Ethiopia of Somali guerrillas by 3 December.[5]
Gode has been at the center of several recent
In 1989, the Ethiopian government inaugurated the Malka Wakana Power Plant which was built by a Czechoslovakian firm. The rise of plantations in the nearby Webi Shabelle valley also resulted in the town’s growth as sedentary farmers from other parts of Ethiopia settled within the town.[1]
On 26 July 1994, the then-current mayor, Muktar Aden, Gedden was murdered. For several weeks afterward, it was not clear who was responsible, as no individual or group had taken responsibility or had been accused.[6]
Demographics
According to the 1997 national census, the city's total population was 45,755, of whom 26,081 were males and 19,674 were females. The ethnic breakdown was 99%. Gode is primarily inhabited by the
Based on 2010 figures from the
Climate
Gode has a hot arid climate (Köppen BWh) with uniformly very hot weather and scanty, extremely variable rainfall. The average annual temperature in Gode is 28.8 °C or 83.8 °F, and virtually every afternoon exceeds 32 °C or 89.6 °F, while mornings seldom fall below 20 °C or 68 °F.
There are two short wet seasons in April–May and October–November which provide 291 millimetres or 11.46 inches of precipitation – about ninety percent of the mean annual rainfall of 325 millimetres or 12.80 inches. These wet seasons are caused by brief passages of the Intertropical Convergence Zone over the region; however, they are extremely erratic even for an arid region.[9] The wettest calendar year between 1967 and 1999 was 1967 with 754.2 millimetres (29.69 in) of precipitation and the driest 1980 with 38.8 millimetres (1.53 in) of precipitation.[10]
Climate data for Gode | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 35.8 (96.4) |
36.7 (98.1) |
37.5 (99.5) |
36.3 (97.3) |
35.0 (95.0) |
34.3 (93.7) |
33.5 (92.3) |
33.9 (93.0) |
35.4 (95.7) |
34.9 (94.8) |
34.8 (94.6) |
35.5 (95.9) |
35.3 (95.5) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 20.9 (69.6) |
21.4 (70.5) |
23.1 (73.6) |
23.4 (74.1) |
23.4 (74.1) |
23.1 (73.6) |
22.7 (72.9) |
22.5 (72.5) |
23.0 (73.4) |
22.4 (72.3) |
21.2 (70.2) |
20.3 (68.5) |
22.3 (72.1) |
Average rainfall mm (inches) | 0 (0) |
5 (0.2) |
18 (0.7) |
102 (4.0) |
66 (2.6) |
1 (0.0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
5 (0.2) |
73 (2.9) |
50 (2.0) |
5 (0.2) |
325 (12.8) |
Average relative humidity (%) (daily average)
|
41 | 41 | 45 | 61 | 57 | 52 | 55 | 52 | 49 | 64 | 61 | 47 | 52 |
Average dew point °C (°F) | 14 (57) |
13 (55) |
15 (59) |
20 (68) |
20 (68) |
17 (63) |
16 (61) |
15 (59) |
16 (61) |
19 (66) |
18 (64) |
15 (59) |
17 (62) |
Mean daily sunshine hours | 9.6 | 9.9 | 9.6 | 10.5 | 9.9 | 9.7 | 9.7 | 11.0 | 10.5 | 8.4 | 9.2 | 7.7 | 9.6 |
Source 1: Climate Data[11] | |||||||||||||
Source 2: Time and Date (dewpoints and humidity, 2005-2015)[12]
Weather Atlas (sun hours)[13] |
Notes
- ^ a b c d "Local History in Ethiopia" Archived May 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 21 November 2007)
- ^ I.M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali, fourth edition (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), p. 233
- ^ The Ogaden War (in Somali) http://www.mudugonline.com/Qoraalo/dagaalkii_ogaadeenya/d_o_casharkii45.htm Archived 2011-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Brothers-In-Arms "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-03. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Gebru Tareke, "From Lash to Red Star: The Pitfalls of Counter-Insurgency in Ethiopia, 1980-82", Journal of Modern African Studies, 40 (2002), p. 471
- UNDPEmergencies Unit for Ethiopia report, dated 15 August 1994 (accessed 20 December 2008)
- ^ The 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, vol.1 Archived November 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.3, 2.14, 3.4 and 3.7. The 1994 Ethiopian National Census was delayed in the Somali Region until September 1997.
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics Archived November 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, Table B.4
- ^ Dewar, Robert E. and Wallis, James R; ‘Geographical patterning in interannual rainfall variability in the tropics and near tropics: An L-moments approach’; in Journal of Climate, 12; pp. 3457–3466
- ^ KNMI Climate Explorer; Time series plots per year (Jul-Jun) GODE GHCN v2 precipitation (all)
- ^ "Climate Data : Ethiopia". Retrieved 28 May 2013.
- ^ "Climate & Weather Averages in Gode, Ethiopia". Time and Date. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ "Monthly weather forecast and climate in Gode, Ethiopia". Weather Atlas. Retrieved 10 January 2022.