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Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa. Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa (OEF-HOA) is the name of the military operation defined by the United States for combating militant Islamism and piracy in the Horn of Africa.[10] It is one component of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), which includes eight African states stretching from the far northeast of the continent to the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea in the west.[11] The other OEF mission in Africa is known as Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara (OEF-TS), which, until the creation of the new Africa Command, was run out from the United States European Command.[10] The Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) is the primary (but not sole) military component assigned to accomplish the objectives of the mission.

The naval component is the multinational Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150) which operates under the direction of the United States Fifth Fleet. Both of these organizations have been historically part of United States Central Command. Operations[edit] Ethiopia. Ethiopia (/ˌiːθiˈoʊpiə/; Amharic: ኢትዮጵያ? , ʾĪtyōṗṗyā, listen ), officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea to the north and northeast, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south. With over 93,000,000 inhabitants,[9] Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world, as well as the second-most populated nation on the African continent.

It occupies a total area of 1,100,000 square kilometres (420,000 sq mi), and its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa.[2] Ethiopia is one of the oldest locations of human life known to scientists[10] and is widely considered the region from which Homo sapiens first set out for the Middle East and points beyond.[11][12][13] Tracing its roots to the 2nd millennium BC, Ethiopia was a monarchy for most of its history.

Names[edit] History[edit] Prehistory[edit] Antiquity[edit] Middle Ages[edit] Category:Communism in Ethiopia. Category:History of Ethiopia. Ethiopia. Ethiopian Highlands. Ethiopian Highlands with Ras Dashan in the background The Ethiopian Highlands is a rugged mass of mountains in Ethiopia. It forms the largest continuous area of its altitude in the continent, with little of its surface falling below 1500 m (4,921 ft), while the summits reach heights of up to 4550 m (14,928 ft). It is sometimes called the Roof of Africa due to its height and large area.[1] Physical geography[edit] topographic map The Highlands are divided into northwestern and southeastern portions by the Main Ethiopian Rift, which contains a number of salt lakes.

The southeastern portion's highest peaks are located in the Bale Zone of Ethiopia's Oromia Region. Geology[edit] Dendi Caldera, a collapsed volcano in the mountain region The Ethiopian Highlands began to rise 75 million years ago[citation needed], as magma from the Earth's mantle uplifted a broad dome of the ancient rocks of the Arabian-Nubian Shield. Ecology[edit] Fauna[edit] See also[edit] Geography of Ethiopia References[edit] Ethiopia - Land for Sale. Just a few decades ago, Ethiopia was a country defined by its famines, particularly between 1983-1985 when in excess of half a million people starved to death as a consequence of drought, crop failure and a brutal civil war. Against this backdrop, it is impressive that in recent years, Ethiopia has been experiencing stellar economic growth. The headline statistics are certainly remarkable: the country is creating millionaires faster than any other in Africa; output from farming, Ethiopia’s dominant industry, has tripled in a decade; the capital Addis Ababa is experiencing a massive construction boom; and the last six years have seen the nation’s GDP grow by a staggering 108 percent.

But it is not all positive news, because for all the good figures there are still plenty of bad ones. "Ethiopia needs to develop to fight poverty, increase food supplies and improve livelihoods and is doing so in a sustainable way," said one official. So what does all this mean for the people on the ground? Atlas of Ethiopia. Ethiopia travel guide. Ethiopia (Amharic: ኢትዮጵያ ʾĪtyōṗṗyā) is a fascinating country in the Horn of Africa and is the second-most populous nation in this continent (after Nigeria). It's bordered by Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, and Sudan and South Sudan to the west. Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa and the second-oldest official Christian nation in the world after Armenia.

Ethiopia is also the place for the first Hijra (615 AD) in Islamic history where the Christian king of Ethiopia accepted Muslim refugees from Mecca sent by the prophet Mohamed. Understand[edit] Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in the world. After a long and difficult period under communist rulers, the country is now back on its feet. Highlights in Ethiopia include the cities of Harar, Addis Ababa as well as the churches of Lalibela in the North. History[edit] Ethiopia is one of the oldest independent nations in the world. Climate[edit] Terrain[edit] Derg. The Derg, Common Derg or Dergue (Ge'ez: ደርግ, meaning "committee" or "council") is the short name of the Coordinating Committee of the Armed Forces, Police, and Territorial Army that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987.

It took power following the ousting of Emperor Haile Selassie I. Soon after it was established, the committee was formally renamed the Provisional Military Administrative Council, but continued to be known popularly as "the Derg". In 1975, it embraced communism as an ideology; it remained in power until 1987.[4] Between 1975 and 1987, the Derg executed and imprisoned tens of thousands of its opponents without trial.[5] In 1987 Mengistu Haile Mariam abolished the Derg, establishing the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Formation and growth[edit] The committee elected Major Mengistu Haile Mariam as its chairman and Major Atnafu Abate as its vice-chairman. In the months following its founding, the Derg steadily accrued more power. Mengistu's leadership[edit] Notes[edit] Exceptions to the democratic rule - Opinion. In 2012, after having been sentenced to 11 years in prison for "terrorism" for illegally entering Ethiopia from Somalia in the presence of the Ogaden National Liberation Front, Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye took the advice of their legal council, confessed to their "crimes" and requested an official pardon.

It was a pragmatic move - both journalists vehemently denied the charges and considered any confession to be a charade - taken to save their own skins. The request was granted, and the journalists were released after 438 days in jail. Their capture, trial, imprisonment and subsequent release were, as one would expect, all big news stories in Sweden.

As told in the media, the Persson/Schibbye story followed a standard trope: Backward, undemocratic Africa versus progressive, democratic Sweden. Human rights violators versus human rights defenders. And, frankly, who could argue with that framing of events? Persson and Schibbye, as it turns out.