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Burayu
Oromiya, Ethiopia · Africa
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Burayu sits on the route: 20 minutes from Addis Ababa.
Burayu is in Oromiya, Ethiopia, with about 100,000 people. The nearest town is Addis Ababa, about 10 km away.
Burayu (Oromo: Burraayyuu, Amharic: ቡራዩ) is a city and special census zone in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia, located directly adjacent to the national capital city Addis Ababa (known as Finfinne in Oromo). With the rapid growth of the capital in recent decades and urban sprawl, the town has faced considerable economicRead more
and demographic pressures. The city's population has grown from merely 10,000 people in 1994 to an estimated 130,000 people three decades later; consisting of migrants from the rural south of Ethiopia looking for work along with former residents of Addis Ababa who sought cheaper housing in the surburbs.
In 2018, a massacre occurred amid communal clashes with individuals from the Oromo and Dorze ethnicities fighting in and around Burayu, in which 55 people were killed.
On 19 January 2022, during the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian religious festival Timkat, Oromia police shot into a crowd of Ethiopian Orthodox parishioners of the Saint Mary Church at Burayu. The security forces of Oromia killed two believers and several people were injured, including elderly, women and children. This incident was said to have happened because of the flag that the parishioners used, a green, yellow and red flag with the Ethiopian Orthodox logo over it.
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Burayu is in Oromiya, Ethiopia, about 10 km from Addis Ababa.
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- Population
- 101,400
- Continent
- Africa
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Region
- Oromiya
- Timezone
- Africa/Addis_Ababa
- Coordinates
- 9.0353, 38.6608
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