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Congratulations to Ethiopian refugee and newly elected Minnesota councilman Oballa Oballa

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

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

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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Learning renewed: a safe way to reopen schools

Education Development Trust, which leads the UK’s £20m technical assistance to Ethiopia, is supporting education system leaders globally.  Their most recent thinkpiece, #LearningRenewed, shares a vision for school reopening in low-income countries. As education systems around the world begin to emerge from Covid-19-related lockdown, governments are facing the difficult decision of when and how to

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Korkor Lodge

Korkor is a newly established eco-lodge in the picturesque Tigray region of Ethiopia. Situated next to the village of Megab, the lodge is surrounded by the stunning natural beauty of the Gheralta Mountains. Within close range are many sites of historic, archaeological, cultural and Biblical interest. The bungalows at the Lodge have been designed in

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