Shakiso

Shakiso is a metropolis in southern Ethiopia. Located within the Guji Zone of the Oromia Region, this city has a range and longitude of 5°45′N 38°55′E and an elevation of 1758 meters above sea stage. Two of the important mines of Ethiopia are placed close to Shakiso: the Lega Dembi gold and the Kenticha tantalum mines.

The Swedish Red Cross report encountering a customs post at Shakiso when moving at the southern the front in early 1936. There had been two large waterholes there, despite the fact that the water turned into somewhat salty. The customs body of workers had 4 small buildings on the pinnacle of a hill near the main road. Their primary undertaking become to accumulate salt tax from caravans, which amounted to ten or eleven Maria Theresa Thalers consistent with month earlier than the Second Italian-Abyssinian War. Following the savage suppression in their riot in 1960, severa participants of the Gedeo human beings had been forcibly evicted from their houses, and over the following years some migrated to Shakiso to settle. However, the unrest of the early years of the Ethiopian Revolution pressured a lot of these migrants to depart Shakiso for their place of birth.