Mizan Tefere is served by an airport (ICAO code HAMT, IATA MTF) with an unpaved runway. Until 1966, the town was connected by only a dry weather road to Gore; that year the roads to Bonga and Tepi were improved by the Highway Authority.[3] Further proposed improvements were promised on 13 December 2006, when the Ethiopian government announced that it had secured a loan of US$98 million from the African Development Bank to pave the 227 kilometers of highway between Jimma and Mizan Teferi to the southwest. The loan would cover 64% of the 1270.97 million Birr budgeted for this project.[4]
By 1996 there was 24-hour electricity, and access to potable water.[3]
According to the SNNPR's Bureau of Finance and Economic Development, as of 2003[update] Mizan Teferi's amenities also include digital telephone access, postal service, and a bank and a hospital.[5] Near the town is the Bebeka coffee plantation. It is also the location of two institutions of higher education, Aman Health Science College and Mizan - Tepi University.[citation needed]
Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of the primary and secondary school in 1968, and a 70-bed hospital built in 1989.[3] During the existence of the Bench Zone (created in the mid-1990s) Mizan Teferi was its administrative center.
Demographics
Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, woreda of Mizan Aman has a total population of 34,080, of whom 18,138 are men and 15,942 women. The majority of the inhabitants practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 45.97% of the population reporting that belief, 33.8% were Protestants, 17.71% were Muslim, and 1.05% practiced traditional beliefs.
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The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 10,652 of whom 5,612 were males and 5,040 were females.
