Dirashe Zone

Dirashe got zonal status when the South Ethiopia Regional State formed in August 2023.

In April 2002, several persons were killed and numerous houses were burned during fighting over a land dispute between the Dirashe and the Zayse.

[3] By the end of the following year, the responsible local officials, who included the former woreda administrator, were found guilty of inciting the violence between the previously peaceful groups.

[4] Human Rights Watch interviewed farmers on 25 June 2009, who claimed that they had been dispossessed of their lands and forced out of their homes for supporting opposition parties.

[5] Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this zone has a total population of 142,758, of whom 70,111 are men and 72,647 women.