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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Since January 2020, swarms of desert locusts have damaged over 200.000 hectares of cropland in Ethiopia. These swarms put high pressure on the access to food in different regions of Ethiopia. In April the FAO calculated that a million of people have been affected and require emergency food assistance. According to the FAO, the current
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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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Coffee is a tasty beverage that is surprisingly good for you. Scientific research into the health benefits of coffee has found that coffee is packed with antioxidants and nutrients that can benefit your health. Drinking coffee in moderate amounts is good for your health because it can help to improve your alertness, increase energy levels,
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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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Chef Tesfaye started making pizza over 20 years ago actually starting when he was just 12 years old. Over the years, he has developed several innovative techniques of creating authentic pizza in his brick-oven using only the finest ingredients imported from Italy and working in renowned establishments across Addis including Grani di Pepe and other
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Lemma was a prolific and greatly respected Ethiopian artist He is the renowned painter of goat skin-canvas portraits of the 53 African leaders who founded the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963. Lemma was born in 1921 and recently passed away aged 92. He attended teachers training college then switched to join the Ethiopian
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Ethiopia has a long history of spice and herb production for the domestic market and has a unique, indigenous product, Korarima cardamom (Aframomum korarima).Modest quantities of several spices have been exported for centuries to countries in the Middle East and exportsto Europe have developed over the past twenty years(Wikipedia). Definition of herbs In general use,
The Ethiopian government has just completed the financing for the construction of the Assela wind farm thanks to the validation of a loan agreement previously signed between the Ministry of Finance and Danske Bank. Denmark’s main bank is supporting the project with a loan of 117.3 million euros, part of the financing promised by Prague.
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Ethiopia’s tourism sector interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past seven months, will fully be reopened by the end of this October, Tourism Ethiopia announced. Tourism Ethiopia director-general, Sileshi Girma said most tourism facilities including hotels, tour operators and tourist destinations had halted operations because of the pandemic. The government has tried to help
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