Ethiopia Overview Nations // Africa

OVERVIEW Located in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia is landlocked -- bordered on the north and northeast by Eritrea, on the east by Djibouti and Somalia, on the south by Kenya, and on the west and southwest by Sudan. It is the oldest independent African country. With the exception of a five-year occupation by Italy from 1936 to 1941, Ethiopia was never colonized. Ethiopia has been affected in more recent decades by droughts, famines, civil war, ethnic and social unrest and border conflicts...