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Danan ((ソマリ語:''Dhanaan'')) is a town in the eastern part of Ethiopia known as the Ogaden. Located in the Gode Zone of the Somali Region (or ''kilil''), and it is located the main road between Gode and Kebri Dahar (Qabridahare) the nearest towns with electricity. This town has a latitude and longitude of . Danan has a camp for refugees and internally displaced persons. The Ogaden region is populated mostly by ethnic Somalis and has been devastated by drought, famine and an armed separatist movement. Temperatures in Danan soar daily to well over 110 degrees creating some of the most unbearable living conditions in all of Africa. The Danan Project, the only humanitarian organization in the town, was founded to provide qualified medical care to the people of Danan. Its hospital is the only free acute medical care in the Ogaden region which is populated by 5 million people. The Ethiopian Roads Authority announced in November 2007 a construction project to connect Danan with Kebri Dahar with 95 kilometers of paved road and construction of six large and medium bridges.〔("ERA building asphalt roads with 600mln birr in Somali State" ) (Walta Information Center, accessed 13 December 2007)〕 == History == Danan fell to the Italians in January, 1936 as part of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.〔Anthony Mockler, ''Haile Selassie's War'' (New York: Olive Branch, 2003), p. 127〕 As part of the reprisals for the attempted assassination of General Rodolfo Graziani (19 February 1937), it was used as a prison camp for hundreds of people arrested as part of the reprisals.〔Mockler, ''Haile Selassie's War'', p. 177〕 While Ethiopian sources state of 6500 internees held there 3175 died, contemporary Italian reports claim that much fewer were ill and only a handful died. Alberto Sbacchi concludes from these conflicting reports that while "the occurrence of illness and death is difficult to determine, but we can assume that many suffered and died. Graziani's order to supply them with only enough food to live strongly suggests it, as do the conditions under which the Ethiopians were confined. Poor facilities, including latrines, the humid climate, malaria, stomach infections, and venereal disease took many lives, especially among those compelled to work on the irrigation canal or on the banana and sugar-cane plantation."〔Sbacchi, ("Italy and the Treatment of the Ethiopian Aristocracy, 1937-1940", ''International Journal of African Historical Studies'' ), 10 (1977), p. 217〕 In January 2009, the foreign relations chief of the Ogaden National Liberation Front, Mohammed Sirad, was killed by the Ethiopian Army at Danan where he was meeting with other ONLF members.〔("Senior ONLF leader Killed" ) (accessed 27 January 2009)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Danan, Ethiopia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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