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Mendi is a town in western Ethiopia. Located in the Mirab Welega Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 1538 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Mana Sibu woreda. Mendi hosts an airport (ICAO HAMN, IATA NDM), with an unpaved runway 1250 meters in length.〔("Local History in Ethiopia" ) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 20 November 2007)〕 Upgrading and rehabilitating the 131 kilometers of the all-weather gravel road connecting Mendi with Nejo was completed in January 2009, while the road connecting Mendi to Asosa was still being improved.〔("Nekempt-Mokenajo 127-Km asphalt road construction finalized: ERA'' ), Ethiopian News Agency, 11 January 2009 (accessed 28 May 2009)〕 == History == Dejazmach Gebre Egziabher constructed a church in Mendi in 1893.〔 However, when the Dejazmach regained his rights to levy taxes over his father's former kingdom in 1907, the central government excepted the "gate" of Mendi, which was retained to the customs office in Nekemte. "This sealed the right of the centre to fiscal control over Nekemte, a right that Addis Abeba was never to abandon in the years to come."〔Donald L. Donham and Wendy James (ed.), ''The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia'' (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), p. 63〕 By the 1930s, Mendi had become an important market of coffee. It attracted the attention of a Swedish pastor who established a mission there. The missionaries were accused of wrongdoing by the local Ethiopian priest to the Italians in 1938, who eventually expelled them; the Swedish mission was not revived until 1946. Mendi hosted a conference of Ethiopian Evangelical Churches in January 1954; the mission had to confront Muslim missionaries from Sudan in the next year, who converted 1000 people in a neighboring locale.〔 John Young believes that "at least a small contingent of the OLF is able to operate in the Mendi area ... on a semi-permanent basis" since the 2005 Ethiopian general election.〔John Young, (''Armed Groups along Sudan's Eastern Frontier: An overview and analysis'' ) (Geneva: Small Arms Survey, Graduate Institute of International Studies, 2007), p. 37〕 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「Mendi, Ethiopia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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