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Moyale

Marsabit County, Kenya
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About Moyale

Moyale is a marketplace metropolis on the border of Ethiopia and Kenya, that's cut up between the 2 countries: the bigger element is in Ethiopia which is cut up through the Somali region and Marsabit County, Kenya the previous capital of the defunct Moyale District. Moyale is the primary border publish at the Nairobi-Addis Ababa avenue, lying north of the Dide Galgalu Desert. It is thought for its conventional structure. An early settler at Moyale was a Greek through 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 blanketed numerous acres and his house, placed on a spur projecting from the Boran highlands, and supplying get admission to through the road of cliffs that run along the border. "

This direction may additionally nicely turn out to be in the future a considerable alternate artery," Gwynn anticipated. "Fort Harrington is consequently nicely located as a wholesome administrative put up and as a likely industrial centre. During World War II, each elements of the town were captured by Italians from Ethiopia in 1940, and retaken by the British on 15 July 1941. Tensions rose inside the Kenyan facet of Moyale in early 1999, after an Imam become shot useless during an Ethiopian raid across the Ethiopian-Kenyan border in pursuit of rebels of the Oromo Liberation Front OLF. The Kenyan residents of the town, held demonstrations condemning the action, which they.

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