Badawacho

Badawacho was one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. A triangle-shaped exclave of the Hadiya Zone, Badawacho was bordered on the south by the Wolayita Zone, on the west and north by the Kembata Tembaro Zone, and on the east by the Bilate River which separates it from the Oromia Region. The major town in Badawacho was Shone. Badawacho was separated for Mirab Badawacho and Misraq Badawacho woredas.

Badawacho has 58 kilometers of all-weather roads and 59 kilometers of dry-weather roads, for an average road density of 217 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers.

On 5 April 2000, prior to the 2000 general election, four Southern Ethiopia Peoples' Democratic Coalition (SEPDC) members were injured during clashes between the army and the SEPDC in Badawacho; that same month the army killed another four SEPDC members in the woreda while they were searching for a particular party activist. In the 2005 Ethiopian elections, one of the two electoral districts in this woreda elected Beyene Petros (leader of the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces) as their representative in the House of People's Representatives.

West Badawacho suffered from a "green famine" in 2008, after the small rains in March-May failed to arrive and the rainy season arrived too late for local farmers. Combined with poor harvests in 2007, which has led to loss of livestock, these factors led to a situation where officials report 4.6 million people in drought-affected parts, not only in Badawacho but across Ethiopia, required £162.5 million of assistance, although unofficial estimates from donor agencies put the figure in the range of 8-10 million people. This crisis is called a "green famine" because not only is the countryside lush and apparently fertile despite widespread hunger, but the shortage and high price of food stuffs that could be imported have made the situation worse.

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