Yes, the obverse is clearly the image of Emperor Menelik II, Elect of God, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah and King of Kings of Ethiopia (r. 1855-1913). Somewhere, I recall seeing mention of a "railway medal" of Menelik related to the first railway construction in the country, but I am working from memory here. Realiable sources on Ethiopian ODM are, as we have bemoaned before, rather thin and often unreliable (one must walk carefully with sources coming from exiled-pretending-royals). The ribbon looks like what I associate with the Medal of Scholarship, but as that is a post-WWII invention, it may have draw on an earlier ribbon? As I am drawing on distant memory here . . . help??