Dolo, Ethiopia

Coordinates: 4°10′N 42°04′E / 4.167°N 42.067°E / 4.167; 42.067
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Dolo is a border town in southeastern Ethiopia, within 30 kilometers of the Ethiopia-Somalia border. Located in the Liben Zone of the Somali Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 04°10′N 42°04′E / 4.167°N 42.067°E / 4.167; 42.067. The Mena River flows to the northeast.

When a delegation from the

UNDP visited the town in February 1994, they reported that an elementary school was present, but not functioning because of a "lack of basic school materials and lack of budget for teachers salary".[1]

History

One of the earliest recorded mentions of Dolo was during

Bardera through Luuq (in modern-day Somalia) to Ginir.[3]

Marshal

Second Italian-Abyssinian War on 4 October 1935 and soon occupied Dolo. In December 1935, the Italians bombed a Swedish run Red Cross center in the Dolo hospital airstrike. He began his major large attack northwards on 10 January 1936.[2] In March 1941, during World War II, the 1st Battalion of the Gold Coast Regiment caught the 20th Brigade of the Italian 101st Colonial Division at Dolo; its commander, staff and 3,000 men surrendered after negligible resistance.[4]

Dolo was one of several border points in the

Tenneco Oil Co. discovered a natural gas deposit yielding 35 cubic feet (0.99 m3) of gas a day at Dolo. This led to the border area between Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya being considered "politically hot".[2]

Demographics

Based on figures from the

woreda
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Transportation

There is road service to Dolo as well as air service to Addis Ababa from Dolo Airport.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ South West Ogaden Situation Report, February 1994 (accessed 23 December 2008)
  2. ^ a b c "Local History in Ethiopia"[permanent dead link] (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 28 November 2007)
  3. ^ Pankhurst, Richard K. P. (1968). Economic History of Ethiopia. Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie I University. p. 444.
  4. ISBN 1-56656-473-5
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  5. ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics Archived November 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, Table B.4
  6. ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1 Archived November 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Tables 2.4, 2.14 (accessed 10 January 2009). The results of the 1994 census in the Somali Region were not satisfactory, so the census was repeated in 1997.
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