Dire Dawa

Dire Dawa is one in all two chartered cities in Ethiopia the other being the capital, Addis Ababa. It is split administratively into woredas, the town right and the non-city woreda of Gurgura. Dire Dawa lies inside the eastern a part of the state, at the Dechatu River, on the foot of a ring of cliffs that has been described as really like a cluster of tea-leaves within the bottom of a slop-basin.

The area turned into already inhabited in Mesolithic times, as revealed by rock paintings and Middle-Stone-Age artifacts within the cave of Porc-Epic, only a few kilometers from Dire Dawa. Historically, the area of Dire Dawa changed into initially called Dir Dhabe and was a part of Adal Sultanate all through the medieval instances and became exclusively settled by the Gurgure Dir extended family which is a primary Somali tribe and after the weakening of Adal Sultanate, the Oromos took advantage and have been able to penetrate through the town and settle into these areas and also assimilate a number of the neighborhood Gurgura extended family.