visio · 297 days ago Adama (Oromo Adaama, Ge'ez ኣዳማ ādāmā), better known as Nazret or Nazreth (ናዝሬት nāzrēt), is a city in Ethiopia and the current capital of the Oromia Region. It is located in the Misraq Shewa Zone of Oromia, at [show location on an interactive map] 8.55° N 39.27° E at an elevation of 1712 meters, approximately 100 km southeast of Addis Ababa. The city sits below an escarpment to the west, and above the Great Rift Valley to the east.

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this city has an estimated total population of 228,623, of whom 114,255 were males and were 114,368 females; other estimates confirm that the current population exceeds 200,000. According to the 1994 census, the population was 127,842.

visio · 297 days ago Ethiopian police are said to have massacred 193 protesters, mostly in the capital Addis Ababa, in the violence following the May 2005 elections in the Ethiopian police massacre. The government initiated a crackdown in the provinces as well; in Oromia state the authorities used concerns over insurgency and terrorism to use torture, imprisonment, and other repressive methods to silence critics following the election, particularly people sympathetic to the registered opposition party Oromo National Congress (ONC).