Can anyone tell me about Dire Dawa.

[thisthatone]

This city fascinates me and saddens me used to be majority Somali now its majority Oromo just like Harar is even Amhara live in Dire Dawa to the point they make up more than us because the Amharic language is given supremacy over Somali another thing Jijjga is only 60% Somali where are displaced Somalis going?

 

[Aseer]

This city fascinates me and saddens me used to be majority Somali now its majority Oromo just like Harar is even Amhara live in Dire Dawa to the point they make up more than us because the Amharic language is given supremacy over Somali another thing Jijjga is only 60% Somali where are displaced Somalis going?

Dir Dhaba*

 

[Internet Nomad]

Look up the Great replacement theory ethnic minorities from third world countries entering 1st world somali cities changing the ethnic makeup of the country.

 

[NidarNidar]

Dir Dhaba*

Diridhaba*

Dire Dawa had a population of 341,834, of whom 171,461 were men and 170,461 women. 233,224 or 68.23% of the population were urban inhabitants. For all of Dire Dawa, 76,815 households were counted living in 72,937 housing units, which resulted in an average of 4.5 persons per household, with urban households having 4.2 people per household on average, and rural households 4.9 people. Ethnic groups in the region include the Oromo (156,958, 46%), Somali (83,069, 24%), Amhara (108,962, 20%), Gurage (15,543, 4.5%), among other groups (5.5%).[41] The religion with the most believers in Dire Dawa is Islam with 70.9%, 25.6% are Ethiopian Orthodox, 2.8% Protestant, and 0.4% Catholic.[42]

We need to send in a couple of Hawiye to prop that population up.

 

[Burqad]

This city fascinates me and saddens me used to be majority Somali now its majority Oromo just like Harar is even Amhara live in Dire Dawa to the point they make up more than us because the Amharic language is given supremacy over Somali another thing Jijjga is only 60% Somali where are displaced Somalis going?

Oromo speakers does not equal oromo.

 

[mrlog]

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[thisthatone]

My question is I can understand Oromos being there but how are Amhara that huge of a number if it wasn’t for the government moving them there.

 

[Khaem]

Diridhaba*

Dire Dawa had a population of 341,834, of whom 171,461 were men and 170,461 women. 233,224 or 68.23% of the population were urban inhabitants. For all of Dire Dawa, 76,815 households were counted living in 72,937 housing units, which resulted in an average of 4.5 persons per household, with urban households having 4.2 people per household on average, and rural households 4.9 people. Ethnic groups in the region include the Oromo (156,958, 46%), Somali (83,069, 24%), Amhara (108,962, 20%), Gurage (15,543, 4.5%), among other groups (5.5%).[41] The religion with the most believers in Dire Dawa is Islam with 70.9%, 25.6% are Ethiopian Orthodox, 2.8% Protestant, and 0.4% Catholic.[42]

We need to send in a couple of Hawiye to prop that population up.

The somali clans that speak oromo are counted as galla. Go to dir Dhaba and ask what their ethnicity is, most will answer Somali baan ahay