Durba

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Dubra is important for being one of the major sites for the production of cement in Ethiopia. In 2006, the Muger Cement Factory plant announced it would expand its facilities.[2] In 2008, Mohammed Al-Amoudi's Derba Midroc Cement company announced it would establish its own cement factory 8 km from Durba.[3][4]

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Dubra has an estimated total population of 2,188 of whom 1,053 were men and 1,135 were women.[5] The 1994 census reported this town had a total population of 1,225 of whom 571 were men and 654 were women. It is one of six towns in Mulona Sululta woreda.

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