Damot Weyde
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| Country |  Ethiopia |
| Region | South Ethiopia |
| Zone | Wolaita |
| Seat | Bedessa |
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| • Chief administrator | Mathewos Tona (Prosperity Party) |
| Population (2007) | |
• Total | 91,602 |
| • Male | 44,861 |
| • Female | 46,741 |
Damot Weyde is a woreda in South Ethiopia Regional State of Ethiopia. It is a part of the Wolayita Zone located in the Great Rift Valley, Damot Weyde is bordered on the south by Hobicha, on the west by Sodo Zuria, on the northwest by Damot Gale, on the north and northeast by Diguna Fango woredas. The administrative center of the woreda is Bedessa.
Damot Weyde has 58 kilometers of all-weather roads and 90 kilometers of dry-weather roads, for an average road density of 191 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers.[1]
Prior to the Ethiopian 2005 General Elections, Amnesty International reports that two activists for the Coalition for Unity and Democracy were arrested while campaigning in this woreda towards the end of February 2005. Amnesty International included this incident as part of a series of government intimidation of opposition party activists.[2]
- ^ " Detailed statistics on roads" Archived July 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, SNNPR Bureau of Finance and Economic Development website (accessed 3 September 2009)
- ^ "Ethiopia: The 15 May 2005 elections and human rights - recommendations to the government, election observers and political parties", Amnesty International website, Report AFR 25/002/2005 (accessed 20 May 2009)