Arjo ( am, አርጆ, om, Arjoo, also spelled Argio) is a town in

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

, located in

Jimma Arjo Jimma Arjo is an Aanaa in the Oromia Regional State of Ethiopia. It shares the name of Oromo people clan, the Jimma Arjo. Part of the East Welega Zone, Jimma Arjo is bordered on the southwest by the Didessa River which separates it from the Illu ...

woreda, in the

Misraq Welega Zone East Welega ( om, Wallagga Bahaa) is one of the zones in the central Oromia Region of Ethiopia. This administrative division acquired its name from the former province of Welega. Towns and cities in this zone include Nekemte. East Welega is bo ...

of the Oromo Region. President

Mulatu Teshome Mulatu Teshome Wirtu ( om, Mulaatuu Tashoome Wirtuu; ; born 1957) is an Ethiopian politician who was the president of Ethiopia from 2013 to 2018. Biography Mulatu was born in the town of Arjo in Welega Province. He was educated in China, rece ...

was born in Arjo. Dr. Haile Fida, one of the pioneers in developing modern Afaan Oromo writing system (Qubee Afaan Oromo), was born in Arjo and attended his early education here.

Overview

Serving in the town from 1997 to 1997, Kate Collins Faber, a

Peace Corps The Peace Corps is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development assistance. It was established in March 1961 by an executive order of President John ...

volunteer, described it as appearing to be "a fairly large village with clusters of tin-roofed houses lining the gravel road," but that in actuality the town was very small. In 2001 a pesticide dumpsite was said to exist in the town, containing DDT, Malathion, pirimiphos-methyl, and fenitrothion. It was established in the early 1850s by a group of Macaa Oromo. Arjo was named by the name of its founder and the first Abba Gadaa governor. Odaa Arjo and Caffee Arjo are located at the south outskirt of the town. The

Comboni Missionary Sisters The Comboni Missionary Sisters (S.M.C.; it, Suore Missionarie Comboniane) are a Catholic religious institute originally founded under the name ''Piae Madres Nigritiae'', translated as the "Pious Mothers of the Nigritia" or "The Devout Mothers of ...

operate a kindergarten in the town.

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{{Authority control Populated places in the Oromia Region