Early in the Ogaden War, Jaldessa was captured by Somali units as they closed in on Dire Dawa; it was recaptured 4 February 1978 by the Ethiopian Ninth Division with Cuban tank and artillery shock troops.
Her son, Giovanni Battista Licata (Naples 1859 - Jaldessa, near Harar, 1886), was a scientist and explorer, who was killed during an colonizing expedition by Count Pietro Porro to Harar, in Ethiopia.
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