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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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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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Great Ethiopian Run has announced the postponement of the 2020 TOTAL Great Ethiopian Run International 10km race due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 20th edition of the race was scheduled to take place on November 15, 2020. It was announced that the postponement of the race and further details of the new date will be
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Mesele Thair is pictured at work sewing masks in Ethiopia. She is among the young beneficiaries of a rural project that has been involved in the mask production within some of the major textile companies in the Tigray Region. Among 531 students graduated in textile technical training, 115 of them are now engaged in mask
Training and job creation for vulnerable women; mask production in Tigray Read More »
The first batch of 34 young Ethiopians received railway operation training in central China’s Zhengzhou City and graduated yesterday. They will work as train drivers on the Ethiopia-Djibouti railway, the 756-km railway thats connects Ethiopia to Djibouti. Dagmawit Moges, Ethiopia’s Minister of Transport, has congratulated the graduates. “As Ethiopia’s first graduates, remember the great responsibility
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With its blue and white colors, private facilities, philanthropic work, many sports clubs, the Olympiacos Hellenic Athletic Association goes beyond embracing the Addis Ababa Greek community and represents Hellenism itself in the African country. In 1910, the Greek community was the most populous of all Addis Ababa’s foreign groups, with 334 people, mainly from the
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed inaugurated Sheger Bread Factory, the largest bakery and flour factory in Africa. Built in Kaliti on 41,000 square meters of land, it will be able to reduce the current cost of a 100 gram bread to 1 birr and 20 cents down from three birr. “The Sheger Bread Factory we inaugurated
Sheger bread factory – providing discounted bread and multiple jobs Read More »
When Rediet Abebe, M.S. ’18, Ph.D. ’19, came to the United States from Ethiopia, she was surprised to find such drastic inequality. “At least in Ethiopia, we were sort of resource constrained – I could see why it was that way,” she said. “But here, it just didn’t make any sense to me.” Around the
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The Common Cuckoo, named Onon after a Mongolian river, set off from its winter home in Zambia in southern Africa on 20 March and flew about 13,000km to arrive at its birthplace and breeding grounds near Khurkh Bird Banding Station in Mongolia. The bird, named Onon, had left Khurkh Bird Banding Station in Mongolia with
Onon the Cuckoo travels 2600 kms in one year! Read More »
As the world continues to be blighted by COVID19, climate and environmental concerns have been put out of mind. Yet the environmental emergency is getting worse: Amazonian forest being destroyed faster than ever, as is the forest in the Congo basin in Africa; fires are burning in the Arctic Tundra forest in northern Russia; the
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