Nedjo

Nedjo is a city in western Ethiopia. Located within the West Wallaga Zone of the Oromia Region, this city has a latitude and longitude of 9°30′N 35°30′E with an elevation of 1821 meters above sea level. It is the place of work of Nejo woreda. Nejo is served through Nejjo Airport and is 150km east of Asosa Airport. Near Nejo on the hill of Guté Dili, on 14 October 1888 the joint forces of Ras Gobana Dacche and Moroda Bekere defeated the invading navy of Khalil al-Khuzani, an officer of the Abdallahi ibn Muhammad who had invaded Wellega.

At the time, Nejo became a buying and selling middle of the Sibu Oromo. Dejazmach Gebre Egziabher moved his house from Nekemte to Nejo, wherein round 1893 he built the church of Kidane Mihret, the second Ethiopian Orthodox church in Sibo province; clergymen for the church had been recruited from Shewa. In 1904 Onesimos Nesib arrived at Nejo to set up a mission, together together with his wife, his children, and a collection of associates which includes Aster Ganno. He had originally gone to Nekemte, but getting to know that Dejazmach Gebre Egziabher had relocated to Nejo accompanied him there.