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About Moyale

Moyale is a market city, discovered between the border of Ethiopia and Kenya, the place of work of woreda, Moyale, Oromia, Ethiopia. An early settler at Moyale turned into a Greek by using the name of Zaphiro, who had a station which he had named Fort Harrington. When C.W. Gwynn visited in 1908, Zaphiro's station consisted of a lawn that covered numerous acres and his residence, positioned on a spur projecting from the Boran highlands, and presenting access through the line of cliffs that run alongside the border.

This route may additionally well come to be a few day a considerable trade artery, Gwynn predicted. Fort Harrington is therefore properly placed as a wholesome administrative publish and as a possible industrial centre. During World War II, each components of the city had been captured via Italians from Ethiopia in 1940, and retaken by means of the British on 15 July 1941. Tensions rose in the Kenyan aspect of Moyale in early 1999, after an Imam turned into shot lifeless in the course of an Ethiopian raid throughout the Ethiopian-Kenyan border in pursuit of rebels of the Oromo Liberation Front.

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