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Although the university has six of its seven campuses within Addis Ababa (the seventh is located in Debre Zeit , about 45 kilometers away), it also maintains branches in many cities throughout Ethiopia. The government assigns qualifed students to these universities upon completion of secondary school. Students also attend other private colleges, such as Unity College . HISTORY Addis Ababa University was founded in 1950 at the request of Haile Selassie by a Canadian Jesuit , Dr Lucien Matte as a two-year college, and began operations the next year. Over the following two years an affiliation with the University Of London was developed. As part of their sweeping changes, the Derg ordered Addis Ababa University temporarily closed March 4 , 1975 and dispatched its 50,000 students to the countryside to help build support for the new regime. Ironically, it was a group of former college students in Tigray province who founded the Tigrayan Peoples' Liberation Front to resist the Derg government, which later joined a number of other groups to become the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front . It has earned itself the name "the biggest and oldest university in Africa" because of its numerous branches around the city. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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