Ethiopia

Ethiopia is a country located in the Horn of Africa and is the Africa´s oldest independent country and it is the second largest in terms of population, with over 91 million inhabitants. The total area is of 1,100,000 km2 . The capital is Adis Ababa (new flower), Adis Ababa is also the largest city in Ethiopia, with a population of 3,384,569.
The politics of Ethiopia takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary republic, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government.
Ethiopia is a Federal republic and it is recognized as the “Museum of folk” because it has a mixture of folks (as Arabs, blacks, Jews) and they speak different languages as Arabic, English, Somali and over 70 others.
45-50% of population are Islam, 35-40% are Ethiopian Orthodox, 12% Animist and other religion 3%-8%.
90% of population live in rural areas.
Fauna and flora offers a wide variety of species, many of them endemic and it is not possible to find them in other place (as the Ethiopian Wolf)
The country is famous because of his churches carved in stone and as a place where the coffee bean originated.
The economy is based in agriculture and cattle, Ethiopia produces coffee, fruits, cotton.
Ethiopia stands out also in the production of incense, hides and skins for export.
In 1980, Ethiopia, suffered a series of tragic periods of starvation that resulted in million deaths. Nowadays 8 million of population are threatened by famine in Ethiopia (sometimes, some people have the idea that nowadays famine doesn’t exist but Ethiopia is proof of this)
In this poor country exist 0.022 doctors / 1,000 inhabitants
34,6% children under 5 years are underweight . There are 0,18 hospital beds for 1000 inhabitants. The most vulgar food is teff, is a single grain of this region. It is used for do injera, the national food, a grey bread eaten with meat, vegetables and a hot