Mustahil (woreda)
Mustahil (
The average elevation in this woreda is 310 meters above sea level.[1] As of 2008[update], Mustahil has no all-weather gravel road nor any community roads; about 7.96% of the total population has access to drinking water.[2] Mustahil woreda currently has had good progress and the local government workers have harvested about 50 hectares of Sudan grass so the woreda could help other drought areas.
Mustahil floodings
Mustahil was heavily affected by the flash floods in Ethiopia during September 2006, the worst of any woreda in the Somali Region. An initial assessment by Ethiopian authorities found that 45,000 people were affected by the flooding;[3] more recent numbers reported for this woreda were two people and 5,400 livestock killed and 1,440 hectares of cropland ruined.[4]
The October 2007 flooding affected 26,825 people in this woreda, displacing approximately 6,000, and devastating
Demographics
Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the
The 1997 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 50,085, of whom 17,525 were men and 14,530 women; 2,956 or 5.9% of its population were urban dwellers. The largest ethnic group reported in Mustahil was the Somali 50,035 (99.9%).[9]
Notes
- ^ Hailu Ejara Kene, Baseline Survey of 55 Weredas of PCDP Phase II, Part I Archived 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (Addis Ababa: August 2008), Annex 1 (Retrieved 23 March 2009)
- ^ Hailu Ejara Kene, Baseline Survey, Annexes 16, 17
- ^ "More support needed for flood victims", retrieved 17 October 2006 (IRIN)
- ^ Flood Affected Areas and Population – Somali Region (November 2006) Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency (Retrieved 26 November 2006)
- ^ "Ethiopia Flood Situation Report, 05 October 2007", UN-OCHA Ethiopia (Retrieved 8 February 2009)
- ^ "Ethiopia Flood Situation Report No. 4, 21 September 2007", UN-OCHA Ethiopia (Retrieved 8 February 2009)
- ^ Census 2007 Tables: Somali Region, Tables 2.1, 2.4, 3.1 and 3.4.
- ^ Permanent agricultural settlements along the Webi Shabelle River in the Gode Zone of the Ethiopian Somali National Regional state, UNDP Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia report, dated November 1995 (Retrieved 20 December 2008)
- ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1 Tables 2.1, 2.12 (Retrieved 10 January 2009). The results of the 1994 census in the Somali Region were not satisfactory, so the census was repeated in 1997.