{"id":73093,"date":"2025-11-12T14:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=73093"},"modified":"2025-11-12T14:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:19:28","slug":"ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ethiopia Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethiopia is primed to host the COP32 climate summit in 2027, with official confirmation expected soon. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Ethiopia<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a<\/span><b> landlocked country<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in<\/span><b> East Africa.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It occupies an area of 1,104,300 sq.km.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>largest and most populated country <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">located<\/span><b> in the Horn of Africa.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the <\/span><b>1993 secession of Eritrea, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">its former province along the Red Sea, <\/span><b>Ethiopia became landlocked.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>bordered by six countries.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These are <\/span><b>Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Sudan <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the north, northeast, east, south, west, and northwest, respectively.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>political system<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Ethiopia is <\/span><b>Democratic Republic.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Capital: Addis Ababa\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Currency: Birr (ETB)<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Languages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><b> Afar, Amharic, Oromo,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Somali, and Tigrinya.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The country has one of the most <\/span><b>rugged and complex topographies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the continent.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><b> five major topographic features <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the country are the <\/span><b>Rift Valley, Western and Eastern Highlands,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Western and Eastern Lowlands.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>North Central massifs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the country <\/span><b>host the highest point <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the country, marked by the yellow upright triangle. It is the <\/span><b>4,533 m high Mount Ras Dejen.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>three main rivers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Ethiopia are the <\/span><b>Blue Nile, the Omo River,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>Awash River.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Lake Tana,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> one of Africa&#8217;s most unique wetland ecosystems and the <\/span><b>source of 50% of Ethiopia&#8217;s freshwater,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is located in the northwest of the Ethiopian Highlands.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethiopia was among the <\/span><b>first independent nations to sign the Charter of the United Nations, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and it gave moral and material support to the decolonization of Africa and to the growth of Pan-African cooperation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These efforts culminated in the establishment of the <\/span><b>Organization of African Unity (since 2002, the African Union) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the <\/span><b>United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">both of which have their <\/span><b>headquarters in Addis Ababa.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devdiscourse.com\/article\/headlines\/3692520-ethiopia-set-to-host-cop32-climate-summit-in-2027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DEVD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia is the largest and most populated country located in the Horn of Africa. 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