Sultanate of Dewe

The Sultanate of Dawe is one of the existing Afar traditional authorities based in Zone 5 of the Afar Regional State in Ethiopia. It is a successor traditional authority of the former Kingdom of Harak Bodoyta, which was established in the Khora–Angar area of the present Republic of Djibouti at the end of the 9th century.

The present-day territory of the Afar Sultanate of Dawe extends from the Highland Plateau (Baate Mountain) Waytaale on the west to the Eastern base of the Ethiopian highlands. To the south it borders to the Somali Region and the Republic of Djibouti. To the east it borders to the Administrative Zone 3 of the Afar Region and to the north it shares borders with the Administrative Zone 1 of the Afar Regional State.

The traditional Territory of the Afar Sultanate of Dawe is currently divided into six administrative districts. They are:

The Afar Sultanate of Dawe is the hereditary traditional political Authority of the Afar people of the Eastern Region of the Afar Regional State in Ethiopia. Its political system is based on an egalitarian, social democratic political system and a communal democracy principle. Its legitimacy is derived from an acknowledgment of respect, loyalty, sovereignty and wishes of the Afar people. The power and authority of the Afar Sultanate of Dawe is based on the people and on the Sultan. The Amoyta of Afar Sultanate of Dawe has had absolute power over his subject. His decision was final and no appeal. In the Sultanate of Dawe, each clan has a hierarchical order of clan chieftainship with the senior most linear chief or a head of clan as leader of the tribe among particular clan. This indicates that tribes and clan systems among the people of the Sultanate of Dawe have a broad-based confederacy system that similar to that of the Confederations Helvetica of Switzerland.

The citizens and people of the Sultanate of Dawe have enjoyed equal rights and freedom since its re-establishment at the end of the 16th century during Misli Hamad the Great's reign. The Afar people of the Eastern Afar Sultanate of Dawe have always practiced a form of pastoral democratic socialism based on a collective sharing and social solidarity principle. This form of social solidarity is unique. It is called, Tittâ luk Aalliyyá, which means having it together, sharing together or collective ownership. [2]

The legal system of the Afar Sultanate of Dawe is basically based on Afar Traditional Customarily Laws. Their Customary laws based on Convention, Precedent and Case Laws as an ancient Britain, Jewish, Malaysian and African societies. The laws are usually made by the Council of Elders with the presence of the Amoyta (Sultan) in the Council. It is administered by His Majesty’s Advisory Council of Elders at Haxa (at the Royal Court of Justice). Hara (Caxa) is the Royal Court of Justice of the Sultanate of Dawe that similar to the House of Lord of the Great Britain).

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