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  Addis Ababa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Addis Ababa University was formerly known as Haile Selassie I University, after the former Emperor of Ethiopia, who donated his Guenete Leul Palace to be the University main campus in 1961.
Addis Ababa was governed by the Italian Governors of Addis Ababa from 1936 to 1939.
Addis Ababa is the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the African Union.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Addis Ababa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Addis Ababa is located about 2,500m above sea level at As of 2005, the estimated population is 2,757,729 [3], making it by far the nation's largest city.
Addis Ababa is surrounded by the Oromia Regional State, and served as the regional capital until 2004, when the organs of the Oromia government were moved to Adama, also known as Nazret.
Addis Ababa had served as the seat of the Oromia Regional state government, but as the Federal Capital the city is administered as a separate Autonomous Regional State, and was never administered as part of Oromia.
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 Addis Ababa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Addis Ababa (Amharic new flower) is the capital of Ethiopia.
Addis Ababa University was formerly known as Haile Selassie I University, after the former Emperor of Ethiopia.
A plaster replica of the early hominid Lucy is preserved at the national Museum in Addis Ababa.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa (Amharic አዲስ አበባ, "new flower") is the capital of Ethiopia.
Addis Ababa became Ethiopia's capital when Menelik II became Emperor of Ethiopia The town grew by leaps and bounds.
After the Italian army in Ethiopia was largely defeated by the British during the East African Campaign, Emperor Haile Selassie returned to Addis Ababa on May 5, 1941, and began the work of re-establishing his capital.
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 Addis Ababa Hotels
Addis Ababa University is a school of higher education in Ethiopia.
Addis Ababa University was founded in 1950 at the request of Haile Selassie by a Canadian Jesuit, Dr Lucien Matte as a two-year college, and began operations the next year.
The Addis Ababa Accords were a series of compromises in 1972, aimed at appeasing the leaders of the insurgency in southern Sudan after the first Sudanese Civil War proved costly to the government in the South.
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 Imperial Palaces and Residences of Ethiopia
It was built in 1897 by Italian Governor Martini of Eritrea as the official Royal Palace of the King of Italy in the colony.
It was the seat of the Italian Governors of the Colony of Eritrea.
In 1991, when the EPRDF marched into Addis Ababa and assumed control of the government, the former members of the Derg and the highest officials of the Communist government were arrested and imprisoned temporarily at this former palace/political school.
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 Articles - Addis Ababa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Addis Ababa is located about 2,500m above sea level at).
According to the 1994 census, the population of Addis Ababa was 2.3 million of which 28,149 lived in the rural parts of the city.
The CSA of Ethiopia estimated in 2005 that farmers in Addis Ababa had a total 20,700 head of cattle, 7,900 sheep, 3,150 goats, 380 horses, 270 mules, 4,780 donkeys, 21,420 poultry of all species, and 170 beehives.
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 WILDLIFE ADVENTURES 2003 CRADLE OF MAN - THE BEST OF ETHIOPIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Menelik considered the Italians a formidable challenge and negotiated the Treaty of Wuchale with them in 1889 Among its terms were those permitting the Italians to establish their first toehold on the edge of the northern highlands and from which they subsequently sought to expand into Tigray.
Italian ambitions were encouraged by British actions in 1891, when, hoping to stabilize the region in the face of the Mahdist threat in Sudan, Britain agreed with the Italian government that Ethiopia should fall within the Italian sphere of influence.
StudeNights and teachers were alienated by the government's closure of the university in Addis Ababa and all secondary schools in September 1975 in the face of threatened strikes, as well as the forced mobilization of students in the Development Through Cooperation Campaign (commonly referred to as zemecha) under conditions of military discipline.
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 tecolahagos.com - ethiopian related issues and commentary
Addis Ababa is enlarged to the natural limits of Shoal, rounding up its size to satisfy the needs imposed by protection of communication lines.
To defend the forest-city of Addis Ababa covered with eucalyptus tree that forbade free movement, leave alone the larger Shoa, Graziani had initially, in May-June 1936 only 9,000 soldiers with little hope of rapid reinforcement as the supply route leading from Asmara to Addis Ababa, "la strada imperiale" -the "imperial Route", was not yet completed.
To enter Addis Ababa with the intention of occupying the city is a difficult thing given the entrenchment; as a result we should constantly attack the roads of communication.
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 <title>UNDP EMERGENCIES UNIT FOR ETHIOPIA
Italian is spoken by some of the urban population in Addis Ababa and elsewhere, particularly among the older generation.
On the defeat of the Italian forces in Ethiopia by British forces in 1941, the Emperor returned, although Ethiopia was at first regarded by Britain as a conquered Italian colony and was returned to the Emperor's authority only after agreements in 1942 and 1944.
Addis Ababa is also co-host to the International Livestock Centre for Africa (ILCA - recently renamed international Livestock Research Institute - ILRI), the Desert Locust Control Organization of East Africa (DLCO), the All-Africa Leprosy Research and Training Centre (ALERT), and the Association for the Advancement of Agricultural Sciences in Africa (AAASA).
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 ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY : FIFTY YEARS BACK AND FORTH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Addis Ababa University, sensu stricto, is not, however, a forth night event.
This college was particular in that it was administered by the Ministry of Education unlike the Addis Ababa University College.
In the beginning years, students of the Addis Ababa University College and other higher institutions were actively participating in social and political movements in the country.
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 Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Italians had built fortified positions in Welwel in 1930 and, because there had been no protests, assumed that the international community had recognized their rights over this area.
By March 3, Italian Somaliland had fallen to British forces, and soon after the Italian governor initiated negotiations for the surrender of the remaining Italian forces.
On May 5, 1941, Haile Selassie reentered Addis Ababa, but it was not until January 1942 that the last of the Italians, cut off near Gonder, surrendered to British and Ethiopian forces.
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 Addis Ababa countries and capital cities information
Addis AbabaImage:ClimateAddisAbabaEthiopia.PNGthumb180pxaverage temperature and precipitations per month'''Addis Ababa''' (Amharic languageAmharic and#4768;and#4850;and#4661; and#4768;and#4704;and#4707;, "new flower") is the capital of Ethiopia.
Lucy (known in Ethiopia as Dinkinesh) is preserved at the national Museum in Addis Ababa.
After the Italian army in Ethiopia was largely defeated by the British, Emperor Haile Selassie returned to Addis Ababa on May 5, 1941, and began the work of re-establishing his capital.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1937   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
February 19 - During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
May 21 - As one of the reprisals for the attempted assassination of Italian viceroy Rodolfo Graziani, a detachment of Italian troops massacre the entire community of Debre Libanos.
Debre Libanos is a monastery in Ethiopia, lying north west of Addis Ababa in the Oromia region.
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 Addis-Ababa.biz - AfricanCities.net
Addis Ababa became Ethiopia's capital when Menelik II became Emperor of Ethiopia and the town has grown by leaps and bounds ever since.
The city was governed by the Italian Governors from 1936 to 1939.
The Italian army in Ethiopia was defeated by the British during the East African Campaign and Emperor Haile Selassie returned to Addis Ababa on May 5, 1941.
addis-ababa.biz /php/history.php   (404 words)

  
 Ben's News Page
ADDIS ABABA, July 16, 2005 (The Reporter) -- Although the conduct of the 15 May national election is now almost two-month long, the end of the whole process and the disclosure of final results of all constituencies does not seem to be near at hand.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 12, 2005 (Sudan Tribune) -- The Ethiopian Ministry of Justice has said that the reports made during the week by the Nation and Satenaw newspapers that the government had filed charges against top opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) leaders was a lie and unfounded.
Addis Fortune - According to an expert, a loss of 55-60 seats by the EPRDF from the 140 constituencies to be investigated - with the possibility of a recount or re-election - will put the ruling party in a single majority position but not sufficient to form a new government.
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 E G Y P T
During the mid-1970s an Italian consortium built a pipeline to carry 80 million tonnes of oil annually from the Gulf of Suez to the Mediterranean Sea.
The Ottoman governor quickly became a puppet, first in the hands of the regiments, which held the military power, and then in the hands of the Mamelukes, who came to control the ocaks.
In 1936, under pressures caused by the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, an Anglo-Egyptian treaty was finally signed, but it continued the physical occupation of Egypt by the British army and the involvement of the British army in internal affairs.
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 History Road, Part Two: Italian War in Africa
Princes became governors, and Addis Ababa, finally, was the capital in the European way.
The Italian revenge in 1935 was a triumph of western technology, a demonstration of advantages of being integrated within the world environment.
Addis Ababa is one of the youngest capitals of the world; Menelik moved it down south to position his power in the middle of his new acquisitions.
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 Addis_ababa info here at en.anytargetedresults.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Addis Ababa journal: Ready to Return "Extended stay".
Addis Ababa journal: Eyerusalem, Part I "Mommy meets daughter".
Sue and I met Eyerusalem on Monday at the care center and she was so happy to meet me "Mommy" and Akist (Aunt).
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 Ethiopia - news and current events.
ADDIS ABABA - Between 40 and 75 people are feared to have been killed in fresh ethnic fighting that erupted at a gold mine near th...
Khaleej Times ADDIS ABABA - Between 40 and 75 people are feared to have been killed in fresh ethnic fighting that erupted at a go...
ADDIS ABABA, - Renewed fighting has erupted in the western Gambella region bordering Sudan, claiming as many as 4...
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 Index Be-Bh
With the outbreak of World War I, the Turkish governors of Palestine, their suspicions aroused by his Zionist activity, expelled him from the Ottoman Empire.
He won a seat in the state senate in 1965 and was elected its president in 1973, serving in that capacity until he assumed the office of governor in January 1975.
In the fall of 1997 the chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, Kay McFarland, named the former governor co-chairman of a commission created to conduct a sweeping examination of the state's judicial system, the first since 1974.
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 Ethiopia: History
By the subsequent Treaty of Addis Ababa (Oct., 1896), the Treaty of Wuchale was annulled, and Italy recognized the independence of Ethiopia while retaining its Eritrean colonial base.
A border clash at Welwel in SE Ethiopia along the border with Italian Somaliland on Dec. 5, 1934, increased tension, and on Oct. 3, 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia.
The Italians quickly defeated the Ethiopians and in May, 1936, Addis Ababa was captured and Haile Selassie fled the country.
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 WILDLIFE ADVENTURES 2002 CRADLE OF MAN - THE BEST OF ETHIOPIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Italians employed many Eritreans to work in public service--particularly the police and public works--and fostered loyalty by granting Eritreans emoluments and status symbols.
Students and teachers were alienated by the government's closure of the university in Addis Ababa and all secondary schools in September 1975 in the face of threatened strikes, as well as the forced mobilization of students in the Development Through Cooperation Campaign (commonly referred to as zemecha) under conditions of military discipline.
But other contributing factors were strong undercurrents of Soviet disapproval of Ethiopia's conduct of its internal affairs and of Addis Ababa's inability to make effective use of the aid that Moscow sent.
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 Horn of Africa Review August 28 - September 23 1996
According to a BBC report, the police put the number of demonstrators at 150,000, while the organisers claimed a turn out of half a million (nearly 25% of the population of Addis Ababa).
The document aimed to counter Egyptian allegations that Addis Ababa was building dams on Nile tributaries "in collaboration with Israel,".
Although the migrating herdsmen (figured at about 8,000 - 10,000), who have left their families behind in Kenya, do not seem to have been severley malnourished as a result of the current drought, shelter and assistance has been provided to them and their livestock by their Ethiopian clan members.
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 IGNIS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Addis itself was in danger of being abandoned until the introduction of fast-growing eucalyptus trees from
was governed by the Italian Governors of Addis Ababa from 1936 to 1939.
Cathedral (founded in 1896 and also home to a museum), Holy Trinity Cathedral (once the largest Ethiopian Orthodox Cathedral and home to Sylvia Pankhurst's tomb) as well as the burial place of Emperor Haile Selassie and the Imperial family, and those who fought the Italians during the war.
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 Horn 0f Africa Review, August-Sept./96
**** In a demonstration staged in Addis Ababa on 3 September, thousands of business owners demanded the lifting of the recent rent increase on commercial premises issued by the Addis Ababa Regional Council.
But the plans have drawn protest from neighbouring Sudan which also shares the Nile waters under a series of accords saying it would have a "serious impact" on the countries through which the river flows.
(The Monitor, Addis Ababa, 29 August) **** Traders warn that Sudan's 1996-97 harvest of sesame seed is set to slump to just 100,000-120,000 tonnes, due to shortages of fertiliser, equipment and hard currency.
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 Addis Ababa News
The Addis Ababa Document on Refugees and Forced Population
Mr Blair's plane left Addis Ababa in Ethiopia last nig...
Oct 7: British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that the chief US arms inspector's report on Iraq shows that United Nations sanctions against Saddam Hussein were not...
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 USAfrica :: USAfricaonline.com :: THE AUTHORITATIVE LINK ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Right-wing Italian Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli resigned under pressure, accused of fueling the fury in Benghazi by wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with one of the offending cartoons, first published in September in a Danish newspaper.
The attack on Agip, a subsidiary of the Italian energy company, Eni, came as the militant group holding four foreign oil workers hostage said the men, including a Briton, were in good health but that there were no plans to release them.
The proposal agreed by the 15-nation committee in Swaziland is to be discussed at a meeting of the African Union's executive council in Addis Ababa on March 7 and 8.
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 1937 Encyclopedia Articles @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
May 7 - Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion Fighter Group, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
August 29 - James Florio, Governor of New Jersey
July 20 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor (b.
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