Wollo

The area of Ethiopia where we were working was in the north: a place called Ajibar, near Wollo.

Bono On Bono Assayas, Michka 2005

Severe famine in Wollo and Eritrea led to a military coup in Ethiopia.

2. Eritrea 2001

Severe drought in the eastern and southern Horn led to famine and thousands of deaths, mainly in Eritrea and the Wollo sections of Ethiopia.

3. Ethiopia 2001

A similar phenomenon was observed in Ethiopia where schistosomiasis gradually spread from endemic areas in the provinces of Tigre and Wollo to new schemes in the Awash valley, mainly because of seasonal migration.

1. Target audience, objectives, scope and structure 1996

DESSI, Ethiopia - Harsh drought has gripped the northern Ethiopian region of Wollo where thousands perished in the famine that riveted global attention a decade ago.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

DESSI, Ethiopia - Harsh drought has gripped the northern Ethiopian region of Wollo where thousands perished in the famine that riveted global attention a decade ago.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

The concern for the protection and management of natural resources in Wollo is central to the Ethiopian government's strategy in the highland areas.

1. Using indigenous knowledge in agricultural development. 1992

There was a famine in 1965-66 during which it is said every second inhabitant of the Wag and Lasta districts of the north- central province of Wollo died.

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Added to this are the two civil wars, one in Eritrea, the other in Tigray and spilling over into Wollo.

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People are to be moved out of the Tigray and Wollo highlands, where overpopulation and concomitant bad land use have created what has been labelled the world's worst environmental degradation - and into the lowlands of three, possibly four, provinces in the south and west: Gojjam, Wollega, Illubabor and Kaffa.

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