Mega

Mega is a city in southern Ethiopia. Located between Moyale and Yabelo at the paved motorway south to Kenya, inside the Borena Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a range and longitude of 4°01′N 38°15′E with an elevation of 1740 meters above sea level. Named for a nearby mountain, this city is the place of job of Dire woreda. Mega came below Ethiopian manage in 1897 when Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis constructed a castle changed into close by. In the early part of the 20th century, it turned into critical because the house for Sir Arnold Weinholt Hodson, British Consul for Southern Ethiopia among 1914 to 1923.

The British manned the consulate at least as late as the 1950s. Mega changed into captured through the Italians on 25 June 1936, then occupied with the aid of a South African Brigade in February 1941 after prolonged combating with the Italian garrison. During the Italian career, Mega became an crucial hub of communications for this part of Ethiopia, but whilst David Buxton exceeded via in the later 1940s after the Italians have been defeated, he located that there is little visitors in nowadays, and Mega has nearly reverted to the sleepy remoteness of pre-Italian instances.