Shilavo

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footnotes = Shilavo ( _so. "Shilaabo"; also spelled "Scilave", "Shelabo") is a town of the Ethiopian part of the Ogaden. Located in the Korahe Zone of the Somali Region, the town has a latitude and longitude of coord|6|05|35|N|44|46|06|E|region:ET-SO_type:city(7239)|display=inline,title with an elevation of 395 meters above sea level.

Shilavo hosts an airport ( IATA code HIL) with an unpaved runway, the destination of scheduled flights by Ethiopian Airlines.

Based on 2005 figures from the Central Statistical Agency, Shilavo has an estimated total population of 7,239 of whom 3,877 were males and 3,362 were females. [ [http://www.csa.gov.et/text_files/2005_national_statistics.htm CSA 2005 National Statistics] , Table B.4] Predominately inhabited by the Somali, Shilavo is the administrative center and only settlement in Shilavo woreda.

History

Dr G. Agge passed through the area in the 1930s, and later wrote that he encountered groves of acacia trees around a spring of brackish and sulphurous water. Some ten years previous to his arrival, there had been a fight between Somali and Italian soldiers, and bones of the dead could be seen in the grass. The details about the battle were contradictory: one source claims they were Somali that the Italians had hunted down and killed, while another claimed that the Somali had slaughtered the Italians. By June 1935, the Ethiopian government had installed a garrison of 200 soldiers at Shilavo. [http://130.238.24.99/library/resources/dossiers/local_history_of_ethiopia/s/ORTSHE.pdf "Local History in Ethiopia"] (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 2 December 2007)]

The former President of nearby Somalia, Maj. General Mohamed Siyad Barre, was born in Shilavo, although he later claimed he was born in Garbahaarreey so he would be eligible to serve in the Italian colonial police force. [David D. Laitin and Said S. Samatar, "Somalia: Nation in Search of a State" (Boulder: Westview Press 1987), p. 79]

Then mayor of Shilavo, Hassan Ali Omar, was arrested in July 1995, for allegedly being a member of the Ogaden National Liberation Front.

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