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Timeless Ethiopia
Why visit Ethiopia? Being huge, Ethiopia represents an amazing natural, cultural and historical diversity. Its favorable climatic conditions and landscape make Ethiopia the home of a wide variety bird life and mammals. The country is endowed with peerless geological formations, varying from 116 meters below sea level that is the radiant sulfuric inferno. Discover all of these things and more in this feature article by TimelessEthiopia.com.
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Unique among African countries, the ancient Ethiopian monarchy maintained its freedom from colonial rule with the exception of the 1936-41 Italian occupation during World War II. In 1974, a military junta, the Derg, deposed Emperor Haile SELASSIE (who had ruled since 1930) and established a socialist state. Torn by bloody coups, uprisings, wide-scale drought, and massive refugee problems, the regime was finally toppled in 1991 by a coalition of rebel forces, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). A constitution was adopted in 1994, and Ethiopia's first multiparty elections were held in 1995. A border war with Eritrea late in the 1990's ended with a peace treaty in December 2000. Final demarcation of the boundary is currently on hold due to Ethiopian objections to an international commission's finding requiring it to surrender territory considered sensitive to Ethiopia. --
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