Gonder, Ethiopia

Gonder, Ethiopia. [huanqiu.com]

The imperial castle of Gonder dates back to 1636, when this city was the capital of Ethiopia. Now a modern university town, Gonder is the largest city in the Amhara region, where most of the 17 million inhabitants are smallholding farmers of cattle, sheep, goats and poultry. As temperatures and levels of rainfall rise, health officials fear the onset of malaria.