Dire Dawa

Dire Dawa is one of chartered cities in Ethiopia. it's far divided administratively into woredas, the town right and the non-urban woreda of Gurgura. Dire Dawa lies within the japanese a part of the state, at the Dechatu River, at the foot of a ring of cliffs that has been described as "quite like a cluster of tea-leaves inside the backside of a slop-basin." The western outskirts of the metropolis lie at the Gorro River, a tributary of the Dechatu River. The town is an business centre, domestic to several markets and the Diredhawa Airport. The town became first based and settled by using the Afran-qallo Oromo and now could be home of many extraordinary humans from throughout Ethiopia.

The area was already inhabited in Mesolithic times, as revealed through rock artwork and middle-Stone-Age artifacts within the cave of Porc-Epic, just a few kilometers from Dire Dawa. traditionally, the vicinity of Dire Dawa turned into in the beginning known as Dir Dhabe and was once part of Adal Sultanate in the course of the medieval times and turned into solely settled via the Gurgure Dir extended family that is a prime Somali tribe and after the weakening of Adal Sultanate, the Oromos took advantage and were able to penetrate thru the town and settle into those areas and additionally assimilate some of the local Gurgura extended family.