What’s out Addis Highlights of City life
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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Ethiopia is one of the main honey producing countries in Africa. This 2014 documentary, Honeys of Ethiopia, takes a look at some of the special honeys that are produced in different regions of the country. The film promotes the Honey Network: a network of beekeepers and farmers that, through specific educational training, improvements in marketing
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Ethiopia has started disinfecting tourist attraction sites as a part of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Disinfecting was undertaken at the National Museum and other historical and cultural sites in the capital. The disinfection activity will continue in other tourist attractions sites such as Tiya Stelae, Harar Town, Gondar Fasiledes Castle, Lalibela Rock-Hewn Churches
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Launched in January 2020, the Cup of Excellence competition in Ethiopia was organized by the Alliance for Coffee Excellence and Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority, with support from USAID through our Feed the Future Ethiopia Value Chain Activity, and wide-ranging collaboration across the Ethiopian coffee industry. The competition aims to create a more viable specialty
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If there is a common language in our world, it’s music; For some, it’s life itself and nothing else makes sense without it. Teddy Flute was born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1984 G.C. At a young age, his brother played a major role in introducing him to the music world; it didn’t
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“By staying home today, we can travel tomorrow”. This message is from the UN’s World Tourism Organization in response to COVID-19. Tourism will be the hardest hit of all economic sectors. But tourism has shown an unparalleled ability to recover from crisis and is uniquely positioned to lead wider societal recovery, driving economic growth, creating
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What’s in Homemade Vegetable Soup? To make this hearty vegetable broth soup, simply chop up all or some of the veggies listed below and place them in a large stockpot or Dutch oven. Fill the pot with roughly 6 quarts of water, leaving about an inch of headspace. Bring the vegetable soup to a boil,
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Israel is set to get its first Ethiopia-born minister, with the nomination of a female MP brought there in a secret operation in the 1980s. Pnina Tamano-Shata has been chosen by incoming deputy prime minister Benny Gantz, who is forming a unity government with PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel’s Ethiopian-Jewish community often complains of discrimination. Incidents
A virtual visit to the highlands of Ethiopia is more fun that a barrel full of monkeys in that you will meet one of the world’s most fascinating primates — the Gelada baboons. See link below. The baboons have a dynamic and complex social structure, second only to man’s, making them a fascinating animal to
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Sally was an aristocrat, the daughter of a diplomat; her father’s posting as an Ethiopian diplomat meant that the family lived in various countries before settling in Canada in 1968. Selamawit Dawit – Sally to her friends – went to Carleton University in Ottawa and was a bright, outgoing young student with many friends and
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