the governments of ethiopia and eritrea each claim that gannibal was born in their respective territories. under this belief, the ethiopian government named a street in addis ababa after alexander pushkin, gannibal's great-grandson. it also placed a bust of him near the african union headquarters in 2002, and arranged for a statue of pushkin to be transferred from moscow to addis ababa in 2014. however, the notion that gannibal may have been born in ethiopia holds little currency with the general ethiopian population. the eritrean government asserts that gannibal was instead born in loggo sarda, an area in modern eritrea. it also erected its own statue of pushkin and named a street for him in 2009.