Why “Ethiopia” is being discussed
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Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (UTC+3). Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Rust, Golang, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Next.js, Solid.js, Flutter, Jetpack Compose, Zig, C…
by dman-os · Oct 5, 2026
Nice fan fiction, but that never happened in Ethiopia. Ethiopia was never colonized.
by throwawayfifo · Oct 4, 2026
You do know that Ethiopia wasn't technically colonized ever, right? It had a single 5 year period of military occupation by Mussolini and co around 1936...
by Avicebron · Oct 3, 2026
Ethiopia has been a great power since then too: under Constantine I (c. 1450) it was the preeminent power in East Africa, and while the kingdom subsequently fragmented it manage…
by achierius · Oct 3, 2026
I maintain that war in Ethiopia (and the wider Horn) is not inevitable. The current outbreak of war reflects the fact that Ethiopian elites keep choosing war over peace. Unfortu…
by zackmorris · Oct 3, 2026
That doesn't really answer the question. why do we (residents of western countries) pay attention to Israel? There's nothing relevant to our lives happening there. It's not more…
by ahtihn · Oct 3, 2026
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Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE), is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the southeast, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia covers a land area of 1,104,300 km2 (426,400 sq mi). As of 2026, it has around 138 million inhabitants, making it the 10th-most populous country in the world and 2nd most populous country in Africa. The national capital and largest city, Addis Ababa, lies several kilometres west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the African and Somali tectonic plates. Read more on Wikipedia