- published: 05 Jun 2015
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Wukro (also transliterated Ugoro; formerly known as Dongolo) is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Misraqawi (Eastern) zone of the Tigray region on the Asmara-Addis Ababa highway, it is the administrative center of the district named after the town.
The rock-hewn churches around Wukro are the town's most distinctive landmarks; in the early 20th century the town's name was changed from "Dongolo" to the Tigrigna word for a structure carved from the living rock, Wukro.
Local industry includes Sheba Tannery, which is capable of processing 6,000 hides a day. Opened in 2004, the tannery is one of the 13 companies owned and managed by the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT).
Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah announced in July 2009, during a 3-day visit to Ethiopia, that his country would provide a $63 million loan to Ethiopia, part of which would be used to build a road between Wukro and Zalambessa near the Eritrean-Ethiopian border.
Francisco Álvares was the first European recorded to have visited Wukro, when in 1521 he stayed at the royal inn or Betenegush. His account also includes a description of Maryam Wukro church "made in a rock, hewn and wrought with the pickaxe, with three aisles and their supports made of the rock itself." The next important European visit was in 1868 when Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Napier passed through the village on his way to Magdela where he defeated the Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II. During their march through Wukro, members of the British army saw one of the Tigrayan rock-hewn churches, most likely Wukro Chirkos, and were afterwards thought to be the first Europeans to see these unusual structures; another notable landmark is the more recent church Wukro Giyorgis Bete.
Ummm. oh nah nah nah
oh nah nah nah
Chorus
Trust me
I will never pull another prank on you baby
Trust me
Cause I done with the hanky panky baby
Trust me
And I give you more loving than you can take baby
All im asking is for you to trust me
First Verse
Welcome to paradise
My brand new way of life
I put myself in all lies and extinction
Now go hide those days
Man you re predicting a waste
Chorus
Second Verse
Now I know heaven is on my side
I need to know you willing and deep down inside you chillin
I need to know that between us we go nothing to hideee
Chorus
Third Verse
Finest things in life (is what I wanna give you)
Like lemonade on ice (you better get used to)
Me comin home in time (just before you think you)
Can hit the pillow or kiss the children goodnight
Yeah Yeah yeah yeahhhh