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Lilit’s Handwoven-beautiful hand woven fashion items and home accesories.

Lulit’s handwoven was founded in 2015 and Lulit Sahle-Michae is the owner and creative director of Lulit’s Handwoven clothing and accessory shop. After obtaining her fashion and marketing BA in London, and working at various fashion and textile companies in France (including Mahlia Kent in Paris where she discovered her passion for the art of […]

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Happy Ethiopian New Year

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Enkutatash (Ge’ez: እንቁጣጣሽ) is the first day of the New Year in Ethiopia. It occurs on Meskerem 1 on the Ethiopian calendar, which is 11 September (or during a leap year on12 September) according to the Gregorian calendar. Why was September chosen as the beginning of the year in Ethiopia? One reason is derived from

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Hello Taxi: New service aimed at tourism sector

Arts & Culture / prologu2

Minister of Culture and Tourism, Dr. Hirut Kassaw launched the nation’s first-ever tourist taxi service in Addis Ababa. Dr. Hirut Kassaw said the government has permitted tax free car motor imports in a bid to tackle air pollution and foster job creation in the car assembly sector. The Minister urged the founder of “Hello Taxi”,

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Gaber garment

Shopping / prologu2

Jennet Lemma is the founder of Gaber Garment, a garment manufacturing social enterprise dedicated to empowering women in Ethiopia. A returnee from the United States, she repurposed her garment factory in April to produce face masks and protective gear. She retained jobs for all of her 75 employees, mostly women, despite the economic downturn caused

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Ethiopian archaeology, ancient axe unearthed

Arts & Culture / prologu2

A 1.4 Million Year Old Handaxe Unearthed In Ethiopia Paleoanthropologists working at the Konso research area in Ethiopia have found a 1.4 Million year old large bone fragment shaped into a handaxe form . The newly-discovered handaxe is a bifacial flaked fragment of a hippopotamus femur (thigh bone). The superbly-preserved tool, which measures 12.8 by

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British Hives for Lives campaign supports honey producers in

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Deforestation is a disaster for the environment, but it is a disaster for people too. Bees for Development workers see this in their work helping people around Lake to improve their lives through beekeeping. Here, beekeepers face a huge problem: severe deforestation, including the loss of nectar-bearing trees, has had a devastating impact on bees.

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Biblical characters depicted in their original African origin

Arts & Culture / prologu2

In 2014 international photographer James C. Lewis held an amazing exhibition of “African Orishas” as he paid homage to African deities through his art. James C. Lewis has a series of photos that depict some of the most famous Bible characters as people of African and Middle Eastern origins. The series features over 80 models

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Yaphet Teklu; award winning street photographer

Arts & Culture, People / prologu2

Yaphet Teklu is from Addis Ababa and he discovered his love of photography while exploring his own hometown. School and part-time jobs took him to all corners of the city and gave him the chance to see it in a new light. Born in Ethiopia and now living in the United States, Yaphet Woubishet first

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