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| የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ ye-Ītyōṗṗyā Fēdēralāwī Dīmōkrāsīyāwī Rīpeblīk Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia | |||||
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| Motto: none | |||||
| Anthem: Wodefit Gesgeshi, Widd Innat Ityopp'ya "March Forward, Dear Mother Ethiopia" | |||||
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| Capital | Addis Ababa | ||||
| Largest city | Addis Ababa | ||||
| Official languages | Amharic | ||||
| Government | Federal republic1 | ||||
| - President | Girma Wolde-Giorgis | ||||
| - Prime Minister | Meles Zenawi | ||||
| Establishment | |||||
| - Traditional date | c.980 BC | ||||
| - Kingdom of Dʿmt | 8th century BC | ||||
| - Kingdom of Aksum | 1st century BC | ||||
| Area | |||||
| - Total | 1,104,300 km² (27th) 426,371 sq mi | ||||
| - Water (%) | 0.7 | ||||
| Population | |||||
| - 2006 estimate | 75,067,000 (15th2) | ||||
| - 1994 census | 53,477,265 | ||||
| - Density | 70 /km² (123rd) 181 /sq mi | ||||
| GDP (PPP) | 2005 estimate | ||||
| - Total | $69.099 billion (69th) | ||||
| - Per capita | $823 (175fth) | ||||
| HDI (2004) |  0.371 (low) (170th) | ||||
| Currency | Birr (ETB) | ||||
| Time zone | EAT (UTC+3) | ||||
| - Summer (DST) | not observed (UTC+3) | ||||
| Internet TLD | .et | ||||
| Calling code | +251 | ||||
| 1 Ethiopia is a democracy, but has a dominant-party system led by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front. 2 Rank based on 2005 population estimate by the United Nations. | |||||
Ethiopia (Ge'ez: ኢትዮጵያ ʾĪtyōṗṗyā), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country (after the independence of Eritrea in 1993) situated in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea on the north, Sudan in the west, Kenya in the south, Djibouti in the northeast, and Somalia in the east. The third-most populous country in Africa (after Nigeria and Egypt), Ethiopia is one of the oldest nations in the world, and was the only African country to escape any form of European imperialist occupation during and after the Scramble for Africa until the Italian invasion of 1936. Often regarded as the "Cradle of Humanity" for the peerlessly ancient traces of humanity unearthed there, Ethiopia is also the second oldest Christian nation, having maintained its Christian character since the 4th century AD.
Historically an intersection of African and Middle Eastern civilizations, Ethiopia has more recently become a crossroads of global international cooperation: it was a charter member of the League of Nations in 1923 and the Declaration by United Nations in 1942, founded the UN headquarters in Africa, was one of the 51 original members of the United Nations, and is currently the headquarters for and the main founder of the former Organisation of African Unity and current African Union.
From ancient Ethiopia to post-modern Starbucks, a retrospective of the rise of the blaaaack driiiink.
A network of U.S. allies in East Africa secretly have transferred to prisons in Somalia and Ethiopia at least 80 people who were captured in Kenya while fleeing the recent war in Somalia, according to human rights advocates here.
NAIROBI, Kenya - A network of U.S. allies in East Africa secretly have transferred to prisons in Somalia and Ethiopia as many as 150 people who were captured in Kenya while fleeing the recent war in Somalia, according to human rights advocates here.
Small businessman Ambes Tewelde has a roaring trade sellingsome 400 cups a day of fine Ethiopian coffee in a perpetuallypacked coffee-shop named … Starbucks!
Fair Trade extends to a great deal of coffees from around the world, it is a solution to bring Ethiopian farmers out of the aid trap and into world trade. Black Gold address the imperative of supporting farmers from the Ethiopia, the motherland of coffee.