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TransportationAirports World Ranking: 82
58 (2012)
Airports - with paved runways
Total 17
Over 3,047 m 3 2,438 to 3,047 m 8 1,524 to 2,437 m 4 Under 914 m 2 (2012) Airports - with unpaved runways
Total 41
2,438 to 3,047 m 3 1,524 to 2,437 m 9 914 to 1,523 m 22 Under 914 m 7 (2012) Railways World Ranking: 102
Total
681 km (Ethiopian segment of the 781 km Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad) Narrow gauge 681 km 1.000-m gaugeNote Railway is under joint control of Djibouti and Ethiopia but is largely inoperable (2008) Roadways World Ranking: 95
Total 36,469 km
Paved 6,980 km Unpaved 29,489 km (2004) Merchant marine World Ranking: 121
Total 8
By type Cargo 8 (2010) Ports and terminals
Ethiopia is landlocked and uses ports of Djibouti in Djibouti and Berbera in Somalia
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Unique among African countries, the ancient Ethiopian monarchy maintained its freedom from colonial rule with the exception of a short-lived Italian occupation from 1936-41. In 1974, a military junta, the Derg, deposed Emperor Haile SELASSIE (who had ruled since 1930) and established a socialist state. Torn by bloody coups, uprisings, wide-scale drought, and massive refugee problems, the regime was finally toppled in 1991 by a coalition of rebel forces, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). A constitution was adopted in 1994, and Ethiopia's first multiparty elections were held in 1995. A border war with Eritrea late in the 1990s ended with a peace treaty in December 2000. In November 2007, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Border Commission(EEBC) issued specific coordinates as virtually demarcating the border and pronounced its work finished. Alleging that the EEBC acted beyond its mandate in issuing the coordinates, Ethiopia has not accepted them and has not withdrawn troops from previously contested areas pronounced by the EEBC as belonging to Eritrea.
