Dikhil Region

On Asa Ragid site, the material found consists of shell middens from oysters, basalt rhyolite peaks whose dating for older, is at 5000–5800 years BC Also circular stone structures and a microlithic industry red jasper and obsidian and pottery shards more or less decorated beads and ostrich egg shell.

As for the site of Asa Koma (Red Hill) As near Eyla, he revealed a life towards the end of the third millennium with a population of fishermen who hunted jackal, raised cattle and made pottery decorated with prints and chiseled features of good quality and which shapes and colors are similar to ceramics found in Sudan.

In one of these mounds in Balho, we found a fragment of cranium from the early first millennium BC The diversity of these burials attests different periods to which they relate.

In 1963 during the first Somali-Ethiopian war a terrible massacre was perpetrated by the Ethiopian soldiers in Aysha, mainly populated by the Issa Somali.

The Dikhil Region has two seasons, with a warm and dry climate, very low precipitation (not exceeding 200 mm annually) and variable and it depending on the year.

Monthly normal high and low temperatures (°F) for various Northern Dikhil Region cities During fall, winter, and spring, it experiences the most clear days statewide.

Winter nights commonly see temperatures fall below 25 °C (77 °F) The Region of Dikhil is situated at the boundary of the Afar 44% and Issa Somali 56% sociolinguistic groups.

Place of Bernard in Dikhil
A topographic map of the Region of Dikhil.
The landscape near Dikhil.
Map of the Dikhil Region.