The regions and their capitals in Ethiopia are as follows: Region Capital Addis Ababa (City) Addis Ababa Afar Region Semera Amhara Region Bahir Dar Benishangul-Gumuz Region Asosa Dire Dawa (City) Dire Dawa Gambela Region Gambela Harari Region Harar Oromia Region Addis Ababa Sidama Region Hawassa Somali Region Jijiga South West Ethiopia Peoples’ Region Bonga Southern Nations, Nationalities,…

The regions and their capitals in Ethiopia are as follows: Region Capital Addis Ababa (City) Addis Ababa Afar Region Semera Amhara Region Bahir Dar Benishangul-Gumuz Region Asosa Dire Dawa (City) Dire Dawa Gambela Region Gambela Harari Region Harar Oromia Region Addis Ababa Sidama Region Hawassa Somali Region Jijiga South West Ethiopia Peoples’ Region Bonga Southern Nations, Nationalities,…

The first level administrative division in Ethiopia is a region, also called kilil, or a regional state. The 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia established the regions based on ethno-linguistic territories. Previously, this level was called a province, and though many of the old province and new region names are the same, the entities are not identical…

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is an African country. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east and southeast, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Addis Ababa is the capital and largest city. Official languages: Amharic, Oromo, Somali,…

Ethiopia’s Regions are: List of Ethiopia Regions and their Zones and Weredas (Districts) TIGRAY Region North Western Tigray-Zone Tahtay Adiyabo-WeredaLaelay Adiyabo-WeredaMedebay Zana-WeredaTahtay Koraro-WeredaAsegede Tsimbila-WeredaTselemti-WeredaShere Endasilasie /Town/-WeredaShiraro /Town/-Wereda Central Tigray-Zone Mereb Lehe-WeredaAhiferom-WeredaWere Lehe-WeredaAdwa-WeredaLaelay Maychew-WeredaTahtay Maychew-WeredaNader Adet-WeredaKola Temben-WeredaDega Temben-WeredaTanqua Abergele-WeredaAbi Adi /Town/-WeredaAdwa /Town/-WeredaAxum /Town/-Wereda Eastern Tigray-Zone Gulo Meheda-WeredaErob-WeredaSaesi Tsadamba-WeredaGanta Afeshum-WeredaHawuzen-WeredaKilte Awlalo-WeredaAtsbi Wonberta-WeredaAdigrat /Town/-WeredaWukro /Town/-Wereda Southern Tigray-Zone Seharti…

In 1841 the Baptist Missionaries society based in London was established in Fernando poo. It is in the Island of Fernando poo that the following missionary, Joseph Merrick, Jackson Fuller and Alfred Saker Presbyterian Mission was set up in Carisco, which later on was extended to Rio Muni. In 1843, the Spanish laid claims of…

Equatorial Guinea is Africa’s wealthiest nation on account of its huge revenues from oil, yet most of its population live in poverty. The islands of Bioko and Rio Muni were ran as the protectorate of Spanish Guinea until 1959 when it was granted self-rule. CapitalMalabo. Population1,679,172(2022 estimate) Area28,051 sq km (10,831 sq miles) In October…

The arrival of the first European navigators by the second-half of the xv century changed the life-style of the indigenes. When the Portuguese set out for the Gulf of Guinea, their prime concern was not to colonise Africa as they later did in the xviii and xix centuries. Rather, their aim was to set-up small…

Before the advent of Christianity, the inhabitants of Guinea were hunters and lived on fruit and foodstuff gathering, traces of which may still be found in Bonapa, an island of Bioko South of the capital Malabo. They may possibly have been part of the groups of migrant hunters and named dangymen who for centuries traded…

The ethnic groups in Equatorial Guinea are: 85.7% Fang6.5% Bubi3.6% Ndowe1.6% Annobon1.1% Bujeba1.1% other Languages in Equatorial Guinea Spanish and French are the official languages. The main African dialects spoken are Fang and Bubi (which is common on Bioko). The various ethnic groups speak their languages too. Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea is Africa’s wealthiest nation…