Aloes add a splash of colour to the parched landscape close to Debre Selam Church,near Atsbi in Ethiopia's most northerly region of Tigray.Flat-roofed stone houses,which are common throughout Tigray Province,may have been introduced into Ethiopia from Arabia as early as 700 BC.
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