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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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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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New braille newspaper “fetil” devised by Ethiopian journalist

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A young Ethiopian journalist Fiyori Tewolde has produced and distributed the country’s first Braille newspaper. Braille is a system allowing visually impaired people to read by using raised dots to represent letters that are felt by the fingertips. “There are around four million Ethiopians with a visual impairment and I noticed that they didn’t have

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New documentary film sheds light on Ethiopia’s elephant crisis

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The new documentary film “Ethiopia’s Elephant Crisis,” by award-winning American journalist and filmmaker Antoine Lindley, brings to the forefront the challenges that Ethiopia faces in wildlife conservation, especially its efforts to save its endangered elephants.Ethiopia has already lost its black rhino, now it is losing its elephants… Commissioned by Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority with support

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Travel out to help out

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With the feeling that perhaps Ethiopia is over the worst of the pandemic, Ethiopia is now getting back to work. The State of Emergency was not renewed in early September, Government offices are gradually opening with different offices set to open over the coming month, and the country is now opening for tourism. However, it

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2020 Bridge maker award

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2020 Bridge Maker award presented to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus director general of WHO Congratulations to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director-General of the World Health Organization. He stated that he was “deeply honoured to receive the 2020 Bridge Maker Award, from Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, on behalf of WHO and all the health workers and caregivers

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