AFRICAN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2015 - PRELIMINARIES - 2nd leg - all results

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2 Mar 2015
AFRICAN CONFEDERATION CUP 2015 - PRELIMINARIES - 2nd leg - all results

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1 Mar 2015
AFRICAN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2015 - PRELIMINARIES - 1st leg - all results

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16 Feb 2015
AFRICAN CONFEDERATION CUP 2015 - PRELIMINARIES - 1st leg - all results

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15 Feb 2015
AFRICAN CONFEDERATION CUP 2015 - DRAW COMPLETED

draw for Confederation Cup held

26 Dec 2014
AFRICAN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2015 - DRAW COMPLETED

preliminary round draw

24 Dec 2014
2015 AFRICA CUP QUALIFIERS - GROUP STAGE - 6TH MATCHES - ALL RESULTS

Ivory Coast and Ghana reach finals 

19 Nov 2014
2015 AFRICA CUP QUALIFIERS - GROUP STAGE - 5TH MATCHES - ALL RESULTS

South Africa are among six teams to have booked their place at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations after each won their penultimate qualifier on Saturday.

16 Nov 2014
2015 AFRICA CUP QUALIFIERS - GROUP STAGE - 4TH MATCHES - ALL RESULTS

Cameroon on verge of qualification - Cameroon took a huge step towards qualification with a 2:0 victory over Sierra Leone on Wednesday.

16 Oct 2014
2015 AFRICA CUP QUALIFIERS - GROUP STAGE - 3RD MATCHES - all results

Algeria beat Malawi 2:0 in their 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Saturday to be on the verge of booking their place at the final in Morocco.

11 Oct 2014

‪Ethiopia‬
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Ethiopia, 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, 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.

Some of the oldest evidence for modern humans is found in Ethiopia, which is widely considered the region from which Homo sapiens first set out for the Middle East and points beyond. 

Tracing its roots to the 2nd millennium BC, Ethiopia was a monarchy for most of its history.

Alongside Rome, Persia, China and India, the Kingdom of Aksum was one of the great world powers of the 3rd century.

In the 4th century, it was the first major empire in the world to officially adopt Christianity as a state religion.

Ethiopia derived prestige for its uniquely successful military resistance during the late 19th-century Scramble for Africa, and subsequently many African nations adopted the colors of Ethiopia's flag following their independence.

Ethiopia was the only African country to defeat a European colonial power and retain its sovereignty as an independent country.

It was the first independent African member of the 20th-century League of Nations and the UN.

In 1974, at the end of Haile Selassie I's reign, power fell to a communist military junta known as the Derg, backed by the Soviet Union, until it was defeated by the EPRDF, which has ruled since about the time of the collapse of the USSR in 1991.

Ethiopia is a multilingual society with around 80 ethnic groups, with the two largest being the Oromo and the Amhara.

It is the origin of the coffee bean.

Ethiopia is a land of natural contrasts; with its vast fertile West, jungles, and numerous rivers, the World's hottest settlement in its north, Africa's largest continuous mountain ranges and the largest cave in Africa at Sof Omar. 

Ethiopia has the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Africa. 

Ethiopia's ancient Ge'ez script, also known as Ethiopic, is one of the oldest alphabets still in use in the world.

The Ethiopian calendar, which is seven years and about three months behind the Gregorian calendar, co-exists alongside the Oromo calendar.

The majority of the population is Christian and a third is Muslim. 

The country is the site of the first Hijra in Islamic history and the oldest Muslim settlement in Africa at Negash.

A substantial population of Ethiopian Jews, known as Beta Israel, resided in Ethiopia until the 1980s but most of them have since gradually emigrated to Israel.

Ethiopia is also the spiritual homeland of the Rastafari movement, which globalized its flag colors worldwide via pop culture and Reggae music.

Ethiopia is one of the founding members of the UN, the Group of 24 (G-24), the Non-Aligned Movement, G-77 and the Organisation of African Unity, with Addis Ababa serving as the headquarters of the African Union, the Pan African Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the UNECA, African Aviation Training HQ, the African Standby Force and much of global NGOs focused on Africa.

Despite being the main source of the Nile, the longest river on earth, Ethiopia underwent a series of famines in the 1980s, exacerbated by civil wars and adverse geopolitics.

The country has begun to recover recently, and it now has the largest economy by GDP in East Africa and Central Africa.

 

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Anthem: March Forward, Dear Mother Ethiopia

Capital and largest city: 
Addis Ababa (9°1′N 38°45′E)

Official languages: 
Amharic
Recognised regional languages:
Other languages official among Ethiopia's various ethnicities and their respective regions

Ethnic groups (2012):
• 34.5% Oromo
• 26.9% Amhara
•  6.2% Somali
•  6.1% Tigray
•  4.0% Sidama
•  2.5% Gurage
•  2.3% Welayta
•  1.7% Hadiya
•  1.7% Afar
•  1.5% Gamo
•  1.3% Gedeo
• 11.3% others

Demonym: Ethiopian

Government:
Federal parliamentary republic
• President: 
• Prime Minister: 

Legislature: Federal Parliamentary Assembly
• Upper house: House of Federation
• Lower house: House of Peoples' Representatives

Formation
Dʿmt:
c. 980 BC 
Kingdom of Aksum:
c. 100 AD 
Empire of Ethiopia:
1137 
Current constitution:
August 1995 

Area: 
• Total: 1,104,300 km2 (27th) - 426,371 sq mi
• Water (%): 0.7

Population: 2013 estimate 93,877,025 (14th) - 2007 census 73,750,932
Density: 82.58/km2 (123rd) - 213.89/sq mi

GDP (PPP): 2012 estimate
• Total: $109 billion
• Per capita: $1,300 

Currency: Birr (ETB)
Time zone: 
EAT (UTC+3) - Summer (DST) not observed (UTC+3)
Drives on the right
Calling code: +251
ISO 3166 code: ET
Internet TLD: .et