Changelog 28 October 2026, 18:35 c40fa4btree

Expand Ethiopia: words, Shashemene culture, 2019 refusal article

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Countries and states 1 file

Ethiopia countries/et.yaml

context › culture › text

In the 1960s Rastafari from the Caribbean [settled on land set aside for them near Shasham … lture/traditions/rastafari-sacrament/) tradition, which Ethiopian law does not recognise. Communal gatherings still centre on smoking ganja, and researchers find most young users in town get it easily and cheaply.[@plos25] Production concentrates around Shashemene, with the improved Ethiopia–Kenya highway carrying larger seizures into Kenya.[@ocindex23]

context › culture › sources

leaf, plos25, ocindex23

sources

PLOS One — Substance use among young people in the West Arsi Zone, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study (2025) Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime — Criminality in Ethiopia (Organized Crime Index 2023) 8 unchanged

words

word Ganja · lang Rastafari · meaning cannabis; smoked communally in Shashemene, the Land of Promise settlement · sources plos25

Articles and atlas entries 1

ethiopia-cannabis-investment-refused-2019 article · added · 182 words

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+# Expansion batch 2026-10-28 — Africa 3 (et, ug, mz, zw, gn, rw, cf)
+
+Batch: `country-gaps.cjs --rank 25 --region Africa`, largest populations first.
+Skipped: Eritrea (closed), South Africa (other agent), Sudan (recently done),
+Africa-1 (ng, cd, tz, ke, ao, ne, bj) and Africa-2 (bf, td, so, bi, ss, sl, gm).
+Zimbabwe explicitly cleared (nobody else editing).
+All batch files verified free of others' uncommitted changes at start.
+
+## et — committed
+- Profile already complete; added words (Ganja/Rastafari via 2025 PLOS study) + culture extension (communal ganja use, Shashemene production, Kenya-highway smuggling via OC Index 2023).
+- New `articles/ethiopia-cannabis-investment-refused-2019.md` (Dembecha farm, outcry, minister + commission refusals).
+- Audit 0/0; country + article review builds verified.
+- Left: 1920s/30s/70s/80s/2020s history decades; first-restriction estimate kept.
+## ug — pending
+## mz — pending
+## zw — pending
+## gn — pending
+## rw — pending
+## cf — pending