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Yabelo (also spelled Yabello, Yavello, Iavello) is a town in southern Ethiopia. An alternative name for this town is Obda, which is also the name of a nearby mountain.〔("Local History in Ethiopia" ) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 27 May 2008)〕 Located northwest of Moyale in the Borena Zone of the Oromia Region (or ''kilil''), this town has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 1857 meters above sea level. It has been the administrative center of the Borena Zone since its division from Guji Zone in September 2002,〔("Heavy rains in Borana and Guji Zones of Oromiya Region cause critical and potential water problems" ) UN-OCHA Report, June 2003 (accessed 16 January 2009) Although this source states the administrative change occurred September 2003, this is an understandable mistake due to the Ethiopian year starting in September.〕 as well as Yabelo woreda. This town is reported to have two gas stations, telephone service, a post office and a commercial bank, as well as at least one primary and one secondary school.〔(''Socio-economic profile of the Borena Zone'' ) Government of Oromia Region (last accessed 1 August 2006).〕 == History == Yabelo was entered by the Italian Laghi Division on 11 July 1936, but more formally occupied on 6 August 1936 by troops under the command of Giorgio Pollera. 15 tanks from the Yabelo garrison attempted to break through the Allied defenses around Mega, but failed; Yabelo was occupied by the Allies two days after the armored assault on 22 February 1941. The hangar the Italians had built at Yabelo was dismantled in 1952, and transported to Debre Zeyit by air, where it was re-erected to house the newly acquired Fairey Firefly airplanes from Canada.〔 The Norwegian Lutheran Mission started a missionary station at Yabelo in 1950, although the staff was reported to have made little headway in converting the locals, similar to the other Christian missionaries. In 1992, Yabelo was the site of a feeding station to combat a local famine. Conditions had grown so severe that the local Borena Oromo decided to eliminate competition from their neighbors the Gabbra. The Gabbra were killed, their livestock was stolen, and the survivors were moved from the area by CARE.〔 In June 2004, a Rally of Pastoral Clans was held under the acacia trees of the SARDU compound in Yabelo, which included representatives from the Borena, Guji, Gabbra, Arsi and Marian clans in Dire, Liben and Moyale woredas; other attendees included government officials such as Obbo Kibre Jimmera, deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Pastoralist Affairs Standing Committee. Economic and social issues were discussed, with an emphasis of finding areas of agreement rather than discussing specific disputes.〔("Rally of the Borana, Guji, Gebra, Arsi and Marian Pastoral Clans of Oromiya: Report" ), Pastoralist Forum Ethiopia, June 2004 (accessed 23 March 2009)〕 Land clashes in June 2006 between the rival Guji and Borena Oromo clans left about 100 people dead in and around the towns of Yabelo, Arero and Shakiso. According an aid worker in the area, between 37,000 and 39,000 people had fled from the environs of Yabelo.〔("90,000 displaced by clan violence in Ethiopia" ) (accessed 18 June 2009) 〕 Currently one of the Boarana clan called Wayu Oromo/#Wayu Bano stated themselves to Oromia Regional state as some anawared Borana clan previously hindering them from many development activities in which the Derg regime computed to divide and rule system. But currently in 2014 the struggle continued not to be biased once the government of Ethiopia stated human right. This is through peaceful way actions with government strategy/policies and almost all locations where Wayu clan live in Ethiopians participated on this issue. The goal of this issue is only equality. Rights activists in southern Oromia reported to Human Rights Watch that students, farmers, and businesspeople had been detained in Yabello. As of January 25 2010 over 150 people, mostly affiliated with the Oromo People's Congress, were said to be still incarcerated in Yabello jail. These arrests reportedly were in response to protests about the activities of mining companies in the region, which the authorities attributed to the opposition.〔("One Hundred Ways of Putting Pressure" ), p. 37. Human Rights Watch report, released 10 March 2010〕 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「Yabelo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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