The Ministry of Education said it will distribute 50 million facemasks to 46,000 primary and secondary schools and 500,000 facemasks will also be distributed to teachers as well as COVID-19 testing thermometers for all schools. 250,000 test kits produced in newly-inaugurated Chinese-built factory – BGI Ethiopia – has supplied the first 250,000 COVID-19 test kits […]
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After graduating from Hawassa University, Henok Abera, faced with lack of job opportunities and unable to find a job in his field of study, he started doing marketing for various companies at exhibitions and expos as well as keeping an eye out for business ideas. That is when he discovered a gap in the market
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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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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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In 2011 American child Rachel Beckwith tragically lost her life in a car accident at the age of 9. She had recently donated her 9th birthday to the charity Water skipping her party and birthday gifts – so kids she’d never met could have clean water. She raised $220 – enough to help seven people.
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“Life is simple if we reflect upon nature and learn from it. People will remain healthy if they live in harmony with the healing energies of Mother Nature. The doctor of the future will hopefully be scientifically sound while being intuitively alert to the signals of nature. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be
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
Seregela is a transportation company that provides efficient taxi services by women drivers to corporate and individual clients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. As women comprise more than half the population in Ethiopia, it is our duty to ensure we are providing the necessary employment opportunities. Empowering women in the work force will have an immediate
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The World Cleanup Day took place in Addis Ababa with a community based Clear Up campaign involving the participation of senior government officials. Marking the day, almost one million residents of the city led by Deputy Mayor Adanech Abiebie conducted a debris clear out in residential quarters and vicinities of schools and religious institutions in
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