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Castle in the sky: Ethiopia’s Shonke village

The Muslim village on top of the world: exploring the remote Ethiopian mountain village unchanged in nearly a millennium.

Shonke is a 900-year-old settlement on the top of a mountain in Ethiopia's Amhara region. It’s a Muslim village, and its remote location is no accident, as ѿý Afaan Oromo journalists Yadeta Berhanu and Habtabu Tibebu discovered.

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