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Ambassador Discusses with British Museum Official over Return of Ethiopia’s Treasures

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Ethiopia’s ambassador to British Teferi Melesse discussed with the Director of Victoria and Albert Museum, Dr. Tristram Hunt on how best to revitalize Ethiopia’s claim to the Maqdala treasures.  World-renowned Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), (alongside other UK national cultural collections), houses a number of priceless treasures seized by the British Army 152 years ago […]

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Congratulations to Ethiopian refugee and newly elected Minnesota councilman Oballa Oballa

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Oballa Oballa, a former refugee from Ethiopia who became a naturalized citizen less than one year ago, made history this election by winning a city council seat in the southeast Minnesota city of Austin.  Oballa, 27, had been campaigning for the seat since the beginning of the year, said he is the first person of

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Alemtsehay Breast Cancer Foundation – supporting women with breast cancer

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Alemtsehay Breast Cancer Foundation (ABCF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to help Ethiopian women, who lack the finances to access screening, diagnosis, and treatment for breast cancer. ABCF is also dedicated to guiding Ethiopian women to optimal health through increased awareness about breast cancer and diseases associated with cancer.​ Approximately 300,000 women and over 2,000

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Desert Locusts Continue to Threaten Food Security in Ethiopia

Food, Health & Wellness /

Since January 2020, swarms of desert locusts have damaged over 200.000 hectares of cropland in Ethiopia. These swarms put high pressure on the access to food in different regions of Ethiopia. In April the FAO calculated that a million of people have been affected and require emergency food assistance. According to the FAO, the current

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Ethiopian American artist named as “one of 100 most influential people of 2020”

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Julie Mehretu was born in 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to an American teacher mother and Ethiopian Ethiopian college professor father. They fled the country in 1977 to escape political turmoil and moved to Michigan, for her father’s teaching position on economic geography at Michigan State University. She has been named as one of Time

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