Lobuni, Ethiopia
Lobuni is a town of 3,363 people in South Ethiopia Regional State, Ethiopia.
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About Lobuni
Omorate (also known as Kelem) is a town in southern Ethiopia near the Kenyan border. Located in the Debub Omo Zone of the South Ethiopia Regional State, this village has a latitude and longitude of 4°48′N 35°58′E with an elevation of 395 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Kuraz woreda.
From the Wikipedia article Omorate (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
History
Although during the Italian occupation there was an official in residence at Kelem (as it was known then), who encouraged the local Daasanach to resist and repulse an advance of 3,000 men of the King's African Rifles in early 1941, until the 1970s Omorate was little more than one of a handful of scattered police stations in this part of Ethiopia.
In a more recent publication, although describing Omorate as an "archetypical tropical backwater", Philip Briggs notes that the village is "epitomised by the relics of the agricultural cotton scheme that was initiated with North Korean funds in the Mengistu era and faltered to a standstill more than a decade back. The retrenched victims of this aborted masterplan still haunt the bars of Omorate, willing to talk the ear off any stranger about their misfortune".
From the History section of Omorate on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Baco Airport (BCO) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 114 km away.
- Turmi 45 km east, about 45 min by car
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- GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): population, coordinates, regions and time zone
- OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0): places, airports, map data
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- Wikimedia Commons (see each image): photos
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text
Photo credits
- Omorate6, MauritsV, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Village of Doose, Ethiopia 01, Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Village of Doose, Ethiopia 03, Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Village of Doose, Ethiopia 02, Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0
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