Located on the shores of Lake Hawassa in the Great Rift Valley known for its rich fishery scenes and Sidama Bunna a city of recreation and business which hosts the Senkele Swayne’s Hartebeest Sanctuary, home to Africa’s endangered antelopes.
False banana, locally known as enset, is a staple diet of more than 20 million people in the country
Sumuda is designed in the image of sprouting up leaf rolls of Enset plant (false banana) from bottom to top
Children say, “Aide Chambalala” (we have come back) & mothers reply “ille, ille” (good to see you today) during the festival of Fiche Chambalala.
Hawassa Industrial Park is polluting Lake Hawassa with its sewage: residents.
Research claims hot spring water is as effective as conventional medicine.