Awra Amba RJ 300612 EN - Contacter un comité local d'Attac

2. Background history and geographical situation
2.2. Community population
The Awra Amba population comes mainly from different peasant communities of the Amhara region
and is from various cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds, although the majority are of Muslim
origin (At05/28). The majority of the founders were originally born, brought up and lived in and
around Woji-Arba-Amba kebele, and especially in both neighbouring woredas of Fogera and
Libokemkem (Me09/30).
The community members are registered in an ad hoc book (Me09/37), some authors have looked at
(Question 13 in Annex). The population had at the beginning of 2011 121 households or 439 people
(Crespo, 2011). According to data recorded by the different authors, it was hardly increasing since
2006, after a large increase since its re-foundation in 1993-94: see Figure 1 and Table 1. According
to At05/82, any person sharing and respecting the values and principles of the community can join it
at the time of his survey. But afterwards, the community considered there was not enough space to
work and was not able to welcome those people who would have liked to join (Halpern, 2007;
Habtamu, 2009; Jo10b). Therefore, some community members live in other locations.
Atnafu (2005/32-36) studied in detail the composition of the population per sex, marital status,
number of children per household. We present the main results below.
In the 364 people population, in 2005, there were slightly more women than men (51.1 % women):
see Figure 2. This is due to the women from 70 years, very clearly more numerous than the men (9
against 2). The number of women and men was globally balanced for the younger than 51, but the
younger than 20 were very clearly rather male than female (55 % male), in a more distinct manner
than in the rural population of South Gondar (CSA, 2007/77).
Figure 1:
Evolution of the Awra Amba population – data in Table 1 and for the students in
section 5.3. The limits of the exile period vary according to the authors.
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