Eastern Ethiopia Voyage Tips and guide

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Eastern Ethiopia is a predominantly Muslim part of the country. Administratively, it contains the region of Somali, home to much of Ethiopia's ethnically Somali population and in which a borderline war between the Ethiopian government and the Ogaden guerrilla movement has been on-going; the independent cities of Dire Dawa and Harar; the eastern parts of Oromia; and the southern parts of Afar.

Historically, the region is comprised of Hararghe (named after the city of Harar) and the Ogaden.

• 8.99444440.1666671 Awash - gateway to Awash National Park
• 9.58333341.8666672 Dire Dawa - the 7th-largest city in the country
• 9.3142.133 Harar - ancient walled city near Dire Dawa, and the 4th-holiest to Sunni Muslims
• 9.3542.84 Jijiga - capital of the Somali region
• 9.2541.6666675 Kersa

• 9401 Awash National Park
• 1140.83332 Yangudi Rassa National Park
• 9.02640.8513 Kuni-Muktar Mountain Nyala Sanctuary — protects the critically endangered Mountain nyala, the country's biggest and rarest antelope,

Aba Tenna D. Yilma International Airport (DIR ^IATA) in Dire Dawa has international flights from Djibouti and domestic flights from Addis Ababa and Gode in the Somali Region.

The conflict in Somali is one of the most under-publicized humanitarian disasters in the modern day, and travellers should keep their distance from the Ogaden Desert.

• Somaliland
• Djibouti
• Central Ethiopia