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queen Arwelo, since yo going back home soon, this is a preview of Dire daba city. it's beautiful city.

Located midway between Addis Abeba and the tiny city-state of Djibouti at the Red Sea, Dire Dawa has become an important commercial centre since it was founded in 1902.The city expanded gradually when the railway from Djibouti reached the area. Its expansion has resulted largely from trade growth brought by the railroad. Dire Dawa lies in the east of the nation on the Dechatu River at the foot of a ring of cliffs that has been described as "somewhat like a cluster of tea-leaves" in the bottom of a slope-basin.


Dire Dawa has become an important cosmopolitan city that handles almost the country´s export-and -import goods through the Djibouti port. Its industrial plants include processed meat, vegetable oil, textile and cement. Its main streets are festooned with bright colours of advertisement signs. Its shopping centres are full with shoppers

dhiri dawe waa wada oromo, it needs to be cleansed marka la xoreeyo, its become a dumbing ground for all ethnicities of ethiopia, random habash people tell me they grew up in diro dawe

I have met real son of Dira dhaba who has been there since God knows telling me Somalis are dominated by others. If I can recall properlly he said there was a time Dira dhaba was an Issa & Gurgura city, later it became a Somali city, then It became Somali & Orommo city, but now it is neither Somali nor Oromo city. He added it is run by a Tigre & other highlanders. He also said that Shinille people are getting along the side of the strugle to free Ogadenia sending their patriotic sons to training centers of ONLA. He seemed some one who was regreting that they shouldn't have given up their IGLF( Issa Gurgura Liberation Front) on the false promise of Tigre minority.

He said that they have no option now but to fully support ONLF army wing to save other free Shinnele districs before they got occupied by highlanders and he meant it.

Free Dira Dhaba all the way, soon!

The IGLF joined ONLF a while ago now....shinile is in the direct path of tigre/highlander domination plans, recently many of their people we're told to leave many villages which connects diri dawa to djabuti.

thats why shinile is becoming a new frontier, rather strategic one in the war against the ethno-centric fascist regime of meles zenawi.