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Kelafo ((ソマリ語:''Qalaafe'')) is one of the woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Gode Zone, Kelafo is bordered on the south by the Somalia, on the west by Adadle, on the northwest by Gode, on the northeast by the Korahe Zone, and on the east by Mustahil. The Shebelle River is flowing through this woreda. The major town in Kelafo is Kelafo. The average elevation in this woreda is 374 meters above sea level.〔Hailu Ejara Kene, (''Baseline Survey of 55 Weredas of PCDP Phase II, Part I'' ) (Addis Ababa: August 2008), Annex 1 (accessed 23 March 2009)〕 , Kelafo has 35 kilometers of all-weather gravel road and 300 kilometers of community roads; about 6.36% of the total population has access to drinking water.〔Hailu Ejara Kene, ''Baseline Survey'', Annexes 16, 17〕 == History == Fighting in Beledweyn across the border in Somalia in mid-July 1994 led to an influx of people arriving daily at Kalafo until 28 July. The majority of these people were Hawadle subclan members fleeing the Habar Gidir subclan, who at the time controlled the town. These refugees, on their way to Kalafo, had to avoid Mustahil which was also controlled by the Habar Gidir, and arrived by way of a small village called Shibo. The woreda government claimed that the camp holding these refugees, located outside of Kelafo, contained 15,000 people, although the Federal government estimated it held 5,000 refugees and the United Nations Development Programme estimated the camp had contained 4,050 people by 12 August of that year.〔(Gode and Kalafo zones Region 5 (Somali) ), UNDP Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia report, dated 15 August 1994 (accessed 20 December 2008〕 Kelafo was one of the woredas heavily affected by the flash floods in Ethiopia during September 2006. Losses reported for this woreda include the deaths of 28 people and 5,800 livestock.〔(Flood Affected Areas and Population - Somali Region (November 2006) ) Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency (accessed 26 November 2006)〕 The Shebelle River burst its banks again in November 2008 and affected 14 kebeles and 85 villages in Kelafo, washing away crops on 164 hectares of farmland, displacing 36,888 people and killing three.〔("Ethiopia: Thousands displaced by floods in Somali region" ), IRIN (last accessed 8 December 2008)〕 The ability to graze livestock in Kelafo is currently under threat by the arrival of the invasive ''Prosopis juliflora'', which is known in Somali as ''birsoobis'' literally "when the stem is cut it sprouts with shoots".〔Ayele Gebre-Mariam, (''The Critical Issue of Land Ownership'' ), Working Paper No. 2 (Bern: NCCR North-South, 2005), p. 29 (accessed 19 January 2009)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kelafo (woreda)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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