Sebeta

Sebeta is a city Located within the Oromia Special Zone Surrounding Finfinne of the Oromia Region. This metropolis has a range and longitude of 8°54′40″N 38°37′17″E and an elevation of 2,356 meters above sea stage. The Sebeta School for the Blind is located in Sebeta. It became part of the Haile Selassie I Foundation in 1959, and creation on a new building started on 4 October 1962.

A plot to kill the Emperor near Sebeta with a land mine in the road become observed on 13 November 1969. 8 people have been arrested, and the chief, 76 year antique Tekle Wolde Hawariat, killed himself next day after a gun warfare with police at his home in Addis Ababa. He become mentioned with out dishonor within the Ethiopian media because of his treasured service to the country in preceding years. A congregation of the Mekane Yesus Church changed into hooked up in 1979. The congregation's church was burnt by way of a mob in April 1994, and the leaders of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church afterwards didn't condemn the act.