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DANGEROUS TRAVEL Free Documentary video: World's Most Dangerous Roads: Deadliest Journeys in Ethiopia 2016 Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H32HHPJclF4 Burgess COMMENTARY I have travelled extensively around Ethiopia, mainly in the highlands around Addis Ababa amd then North towards Dire Dawa and then East to the lowlands of the Ogaden Region. I did not travel much East and South of Addis Ababa. I spent several weeks in the Ogaden. We had the opportunity to see the remnants of a battle near Jijiga between the Somali forces and the Ethiopians that took place in the late 1970s ... I think in 1977. This war was local but also had significant geoploitical implications. The USA and the Soviet Union changed sides in the late 1970s with the Soviets ending their support for Somalia and switching to Ethiopia and the United States doing exactly the opposite. The underlying reason for this was that the US had concern that the Soviet Union was getting in a position to control the entrance to the Red Sea if it had control of Somalia to the South and The People Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY) to the North. Around this time, it was reported that the Soviet Union had started to build a submarine base on the Island of Socotra (part of Somalia) that was smack bang in the entrance to the Red Sea!!!!!! Peter Burgess | ||
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Deadliest Roads | Ethiopia | Free Documentary Premiered Dec 13, 2020 Free Documentary 3.63M subscribers ... 3,778,424 views World's Most Dangerous Roads: Deadliest Journeys in Ethiopia 2016 Ethiopia is among the hardest-hit countries in terms of deadly traffic accidents. Trains and trucks circulate along infrastructure from another age. For trucks in the south of the country, the transport of goods and people take place in the rain and on slippery roads… There is, however, no alternative, as flying is too expensive and the trains are no longer in working condition, except one. This one train travels through half of the country, from the city of Dire Dawa to the border at Djibouti. It travels 310 kilometres over the course of more than 10 hours – on a good day. This last known working train is no stranger to derailments and breaks down on a regular basis. It is the oldest but also the most dangerous train in the world! From the Danakil desert to the rainy summits of the Kaffa region, welcome to Ethiopia!
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