2019 in Ethiopia
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Events
- 10 March 2019 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Ethiopia to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya crashed six minutes after takeoff near the town of Bishoftu, killing all 157 passengers and crew aboard.
- 29 July 2019 — Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed leads a reforestation effort that planted 350 million trees in one day, believed to be a world record.[1]
Births
Deaths
March
- March 10
- Victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plane crash:
- Pius Adesanmi, Nigerian-Canadian professor and writer (b. 1972)[2]
- Christine Alalo, Ugandan police officer and peacekeeper (b. 1970)[3]
- Sebastiano Tusa, Italian archaeologist and politician (b. 1952)[4]
- Victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plane crash:
June
- June 22
- Ambachew Mekonnen, Ethiopian politician (b. 1971)[5]
- Se'are Mekonnen, Ethiopian army officer (b. 1954)[6]
gollark: I like to design my serious road network things as one-way hexagon grids with highway uplinks.
gollark: "You want to get to your neighbour's house? You have to loop around the entire city on dirt paths, pay $1000 in tolls, and spend 5 hours in traffic jams."
gollark: I should play again and design the worst road network possible.
gollark: Ah, cool!
gollark: Or funnel everyone exiting down a massive series of dirt-path loops with toll booths.
References
- "Ethiopia 'breaks' tree-planting record to tackle climate change". BBC News. July 29, 2019. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
- Pius Adesanmi dies in Ethiopian Airlines plane crash
- Christine Alalo gave Police a human face
- Schianto Boeing Etiopia, assessore Tusa a bordo. Dal Kenya: "Nessun sopravvissuto" Archived 2019-03-11 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
- Ethiopia's Amhara state chief killed amid regional coup attempt
- Failed coup sees Ethiopia army chief shot dead by bodyguard
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