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B. Ethiopia shares borders with Eritrea to the north and northeast, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south. In 1962, Ethiopia annexed Eritrea. Eritrean fighters fought 30 years to gain independence from Ethiopia in 1993. The two nations signed a peace treaty to finally establish normal diplomatic relations this year.
A. According to a 2007 census, Christians make up 62.8% of the country's population, Muslims 33.9%, practitioners of traditional faiths 2.6%, and other religions 0.6%. A small ancient group of Jews live in northwestern Ethiopia, though most of the Beta Israel population immigrated to Israel in the last decades of the 20th century as part of the Israeli government's relocation missions.
C. Addis Ababa has a population of about 2.7 million people speaking the many different languages of various ethnic groups. After the violence and demonstrations in the capital, hundreds of youths were detained leading to warnings about the use of repressive tactics once favored by the previous leadership.
D. With more than 190 million people, Nigeria has a much larger population than Ethiopia’s 105 million, Egypt’s 97 million, Congo’s 83 million or Kenya’s 47 million. Nigeria and Ethiopia are both located just north of the equator, but Nigeria is on the Atlantic Ocean on Africa’s west coast.