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The relations between Ethiopia and Italy [14] in the field of political, security and economic cooperation have been good in recent years. In 2015, the at the time foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni and Prime minister visited Addis Ababa on a state visit.
Italian East Africa (Italian: Africa Orientale Italiana, AOI) [3] was an Italian colony in the Horn of Africa.It was formed in 1936 after the Second Italo-Ethiopian War through the merger of Italian Somaliland, Italian Eritrea, and the newly occupied Ethiopian Empire.
Ethiopia presented a bill to the Economic Commission for Italy of £184,746,023 for damages inflicted during the course of the Italian occupation. The list included the destruction of 2,000 churches, 535,000 houses, the slaughter or theft of 5,000,000 cattle, 7,000,000 sheep and goats, 1,000,000 horses and mules and 700,000 camels.
Italian Ethiopia (Italian: Etiopia italiana), also known as the Italian Empire of Ethiopia, [1] was the territory of the Ethiopian Empire, which Italy occupied for approximately five years between 1936 to 1941. [2]
The Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928, [1] also known as the Italo–Ethiopian Treaty of Friendship and Arbitration, [2] was a treaty signed between Italy and Ethiopia on 2 August 1928. Nigiste Negest [ nb 1 ] Zewditu I ruled Ethiopia at the time of this treaty, but it was the 36-year-old Ras [ nb 2 ] Tafari Makonnen who represented the government ...
Ual-Ual, better known as Walwal or Welwel, was an important complex of 359 wells used by Somali, English, Italian and Ethiopian nomads, located within the deserts of the Ogaden, in an area where the borders were not well defined, between Italian Somalia and the Ethiopian Empire. [5]
The Italian guerrilla war in Ethiopia was a conflict fought from the summer of 1941 to the autumn of 1943 by remnants of Italian troops in Ethiopia and Somalia, in a short-lived attempt to re-establish Italian East Africa.
Ethiopia was a prime candidate of this expansionist goal for several reasons. Following the Scramble for Africa by the European imperialists, it was one of the few remaining independent African nations. Acquiring Ethiopia would serve to unify Italian-held Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. In addition, Ethiopia was considered to be militarily weak ...