Yabelo

Yabelo is a city in southern Ethiopia. An alternative call for this town is Obda, which is also the name of a close-by mountain. Located northwest of Moyale inside the Borena Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a range and longitude of 4°53′N 38°5′ECoordinates: 4°53′N 38°5′E and an elevation of 1857 meters above sea level. It has been the administrative center of the Borena Zone considering its department from Guji Zone in September 2002, as well as Yabelo woreda.

Yabelo became entered through the Italian Laghi Division on eleven July 1936, however extra officially occupied on 6 August 1936 by means of troops below the command of Giorgio Pollera. 15 tanks from the Yabelo garrison tried to break thru the Allied defenses round Mega, however failed; Yabelo become occupied by means of the Allies days after the armored attack on 22 February 1941. The hangar the Italians had constructed at Yabelo turned into dismantled in 1952, and transported to Debre Zeyit by way of air, in which it became re-erected to house the newly acquired Fairey Firefly airplanes from Canada.