Ethiopia Regions
Note: In Dec 1994, Ethiopia was reorganized into nine ethnically-based regions (kilil): Afar, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumaz, Gambela, Harar, Oromiya, Somali, Southern Nations Nationalities and People's State, Tigray, the Addis Ababa federal capital district and from 1998, Dire Dawa chartered city (astedader akabibi). Party abbreviations: AAPO =
All-Amhara People's Organization; ADU = Afar
Democratic Union (Afar regionalist); ALF =
Afar Liberation Front (or Afar Sultanate Liberation
Front); ANDM = Amhara National Democratic
Movement; ANDP = Afar People's Democratic
Organization; APDO = Afar People's Democratic
Organization; B-GPDUF = Benishangul-Gumuz
People's Democratic Unity Front; EPRDF =
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front;
GPDM = Gambella People's Democratic Movement
(also called Gambella Peoples' Unity Democratic
Movement, former GPLM, est.2003); HNL
= Hareri National League; ONLF = Ogaden
National Liberation Front; OPDO =
Oromo People's Democratic Organization (Omoro
regionalist); SEPDM = Southern
Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement; SPDP =
Somali People's Democratic Party; TPLF = Tigre
People's Liberation Front (Tigre regionalist); WSLF
= Western Somali Liberation Front (Ogaden regionalist,
Somali separatist 1974-1989); Addis Ababa 1994 Addis Ababa Federal Capital District. Mayors and Chairmen of Administrative
Council Dire Dawa 1998 Dire Dawa Chartered City, separated from Oromiya Region. Mayors and Chairmen of Administrative Council199. - .... Dametew Demissie .... - 2003 Solomon Hailu 2003 - 2006 Fisseha Zerihun 7 Aug 2006 - 21 Jun 2008 Abdulaziz Mohammed OPDO 21 Jun 2008 - 2010 Adem Farah SPDP 2010 - Ased Ziad OPDO Afar
1994 Afar National Regional State. Presidents of the Executive Committee 1992? - 1995 Habib Ali Mirah ALF Sep 1995 - Mar 1996 Hanfareh Ali Mirah ALF Mar 1996 - Ismail Ali Serro APDO/ANDP Amhara
1994 Amhara National Regional State. Presidents of the Executive Committee Benishangul-Gumuz
1994 Benishangul-Gumuz National Regional State. Presidents of the Executive Committee Gambella
1994 Gambella National Regional State. Presidents of the Executive Committee
Harari
1994 Harari National Regional State. Presidents of the Executive Committee Oromiya
1994 Oromiya National Regional State. Presidents of the Executive Committee Somali
1994 Somali National Regional State. Presidents of the Executive Committee Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region
1994 Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Regional States. Presidents of the Executive Committee Tigray
1994 Tigray National Regional State. Presidents of the Executive Committee ©2003 Ben Cahoon |