Soro (woreda)

Coordinates: 7°30′N 37°35′E / 7.500°N 37.583°E / 7.500; 37.583
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Soro is one of the

Oromia Region, on the north by Gomibora, on the northeast by Limo, and on the southeast by Duna. The administrative center of this woreda is Gimbichu; other towns in Soro include Jajura
. Parts of Soro were separated to create Duna and Gomibora woredas.

Overview

Soro has 19 kilometers of all-weather roads and 48 kilometers of dry-weather roads, for an average road density of 54 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers.[1]

During the

kebele by a grenade allegedly thrown by a member of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) for reporting voting irregularities to the local representative of the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE). When the teen-aged son of the dead couple learned of their deaths, he obtained a sword and sought the EPRDF member avenge his parents' death, but when he learned the party member had fled the scene, he instead killed the NEBE representative.[3]

Demographics

Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, this woreda has a total population of 188,858, of whom 94,363 are men and 94,495 women; 16,885 or 8.94% of its population are urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants were

Catholic.[4]

The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 287,589 of whom 143,835 were men and 143,754 were women; 9,578 or 3.33% of its population were urban dwellers. The five largest ethnic groups reported in Soro were the

Catholic, 4.46% practiced traditional religions, and 0.95% were Muslim.[5]
Concerning education, 29.62% of the population were considered literate, which is less than the Zone average of 33.01%.[6] Concerning sanitary conditions, 68.48% of the urban houses and 21.33% of all houses had access to safe drinking water at the time of the census; 51.53% of the urban and 9.49% of all houses had toilet facilities.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ "Detailed statistics on roads" Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, SNNPR Bureau of Finance and Economic Development website (accessed 15 September 2009)
  2. ^ "Ethiopia: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices", Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US State Department (accessed 9 July 2009)
  3. ^ Kjetil Tronvoll, "Voting, Violence and Violations: Peasant Voices on the Flawed Elections in Hadiya, Southern Ethiopia", Journal of Modern African Studies, 39 (2001), p. 710
  4. ^ Census 2007 Tables: Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Tables 2.1, and 3.4.
  5. ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Vol. 1, part 1, Tables 2.1, 2.12, 2.15, 2.19 (accessed 30 December 2008)
  6. ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia, Vol. 1, part 2, Table 3.7 (accessed 30 December 2008)
  7. ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia, Vol. 1, part 4, Tables 6.11, 6.13 (accessed 30 December 2008)

7°30′N 37°35′E / 7.500°N 37.583°E / 7.500; 37.583

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