Shilabo ( so, Shilaabo; also spelled "Scilave", "Shelabo") is a town in eastern

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

, in the

Korahe Zone Korahe ( so, Qoraxeey) is one of eleven Zones of the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Korahe is bordered on the southwest by the Gode, on the northwest by Fiq, on the north by Degehabur, on the east by Werder, and on the southeast by Somalia's federa ...

of the

Somali Region The Somali Region ( so, Deegaanka Soomaalida, am, ሱማሌ ክልል, Sumalē Kilil, ar, المنطقة الصومالية), also known as Soomaali Galbeed (''Western Somalia'') and officially the Somali Regional State, is a regional stat ...

. It is the administrative center of Shilavo

woreda Districts of Ethiopia, also called woredas ( am, ወረዳ; ''woreda''), are the third level of the administrative divisions of Ethiopia – after ''zones'' and the '' regional states''. These districts are further subdivided into a number of ...

History

Somali military units supported the

Western Somali Liberation Front The Western Somali Liberation Front ( so, Jabhadda Xoreynta Somali Galbeed; abbreviated WSLF) was a separatist rebel group fighting in eastern Ethiopia to create an independent state. It played a major role in the Ogaden War of 1977-78 assisting ...

's attack on an Ethiopian military unit outside Silavo in June 1982, which led to a 1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War, renewal of hostilities between the two countries."Local History in Ethiopia"
(pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 2 December 2007) The former List of Presidents of Somalia, President of nearby Somalia, Siad Barre, 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.Ethiopia Somalia Clashes 1982
(accessed 20 July 2009) The mayor of Shilabo, Hassan Ali Omar, was arrested in July 1995, for allegedly being a member of the Ogaden National Liberation Front.

Demographics

Based on 2005 figures from the Central Statistical Agency (Ethiopia), Central Statistical Agency, Shilavo has an estimated total population of 7,239 of whom 3,877 are men and 3,362 are women.CSA 2005 National Statistics
Table B.4 The 1997 census reported this town had a total population of 4,853 of whom 2,561 were men and 2,383 women. The largest ethnic group reported in this town was the Somali people, Somali (98.95
''1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1''
Tables 2.4, 2.13 (accessed 10 January 2009). The results of the 1994 census in the

were not satisfactory, so the census was repeated in 1997. The city is primarily inhabited by the Awrtable subclan of Darod, Daarod, Marehan sub clan of Darod, Daarod, the Ogaden subclan of Darod, Daarod and a small community of the Hawadle subclan of Hawiye.

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{{reflist Populated places in the Somali Region