Bekoji 100 is an award winning short film exploring the stories of Desta and Zabu, two GGRF adolescent female runners in Bekoji, Ethiopia. They share their athletic ambitions and the trials they face as young women in their society as they embark on completing the first-ever 100 mile, ultra relay race across Ethiopia alongside international […]
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The African Development Bank has approved a $1.2 million grant to Ethiopia’s government to finance a feasibility study into a standard-gauge railway (SGR) link between Ethiopia and neighbouring Sudan. This grant from the African Development Fund, the Group’s concessional-rate lending arm, covers 35% of the total cost of the study, estimated at $3.4 million. The
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Midako have recently published a 200 page textbook on reading comprehension and twelve supplementary books. This textbook will teach early readers how to understand the main idea of a text, who the characters are, the setting, and the plot. It will also teach them cause and effect and comparisons and contrasting. Each chapter has a
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In the early 20th century, Paul Merab (real name, Petre Merabishvili) was the personal physician of Emperor Menelik II and opened the very first pharmacy in Addis. He was born in 1876 in Ude, South Georgia in a Roman Catholic community . Educated at the Prestigious Sorbonne in France he went on to become a
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Alas it is now the season for itchy eyes, runny noses, sneezing and very often combined with fevers…. Ethiopians tell you it is “Gunfam” or Flu and ferengies will tell you it is “Allergies” or the “Common Cold”. As a sufferer you cough and splutter and carry on with your daily activities as best you
Special Tea – a Uniquely Ethiopian Special Elixir! Read More »
Nestled in the dense rainforest of the Kafa Biosphere Reserve in southwest Ethiopia are thousands of genetic variants of coffee – an important seed bank of wild Arabica that faces extinction as a result of climate change. Preserving Ethiopia’s prized Arabica coffee is key not only for coffee drinkers worldwide, but also for the estimated
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Tom Electric Vehicles (TomE) was established with a vision to introduce and implement a green transport alternative in Ethiopia by 2030. With a private partnership model agreement with Nifas Silk Poly Technical College, TomE hopes to be one of the pioneers within the electric transport sector in the country through knowledge and skills transfer. TomE
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Every thought and every emotion causes a cascade of hundreds, if not thousands, of neuropeptides and hormones that orchestrate a symphony of positive and negative effects within the body. Thus, negative emotions such as fear, anxiety, grief, and worry will cause negative impact and literally poison the body. Rarely has the threat of disease occupied so
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Among the locals of Harar, Yusuf is known simply as “Hyena man”– a title he inherited from his father, Yusuf Saleh who began feeding hyenas in the 1960s to protect his livestock. As a child I took the train from Le Gare in Addis Ababa down to Dire Dawa and Harar. It would have been
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Read the book about this incredible escapade and then see the film! In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers know that the staff were undercover spies, working for
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