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Berhale
Berhale (also transliterated Berahle and Berahile) is a town in north-eastern Ethiopia. Located in the Administrative Zone 2 of the Afar Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an altitude of 639 meters above sea level. It is the largest town in Berhale woreda.
Philip Briggs describes this town as an "unexpectedly large and attractive town, set in a valley below stark twin peaks", which although "neither truly of the highlands nor truly of the desert" Berhale, "with its combination of typically Tigraian stone houses and more austere Afar huts...is an agreeable point of transition between the two natural realms."〔Philip Briggs, ''Ethiopia: the Bradt Travel Guide'', fifth edition, updated by Brian Blatt (Chalfont St Peter: Bradt Travel Guides, 2009), p. 312〕 This town was reported as having phone service by 2004;〔Afar Pastoralist Development Association, ("Document of Afar Development Conference Aysaita, December 15-30, 2004" ) (accessed 21 March 2009)〕 electrical service was introduced in September 2006, when the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation installed a 120 kilowatt generator, street lights, and 200 electric meters. At the time, electrical service was provided from 6 pm to midnight.〔("Berahle town of Afar state electrified" ) (Walta Information Center)〕
Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of a primary school in Berhale during the year 1968.〔("Local History in Ethiopia" ) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 21 March 2009)〕 Five British citizens and their Ethiopian guides were kidnapped 4 March 2007 after visiting Berhale.〔("'Some progress' in kidnap search" ), BBC website (accessed 21 March 2009)〕
== Demographics ==
According to the 2007 census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency, Berhale has a total population of 6,098, of whom 3,563 are men and 2,535 women. A total of 863 households were counted in this woreda, resulting in an average of 7.1 persons to a household, and 807 housing units.〔("Census 2007 Tables: Afar Region" ), Tables 2.2, Appendix 1A CSA website (accessed 27 August 2010)〕
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