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

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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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Herbs in Ethiopia

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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,

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Ethiopia To Reopen Tourism Sector

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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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New braille newspaper “fetil” devised by Ethiopian journalist

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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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Learning renewed: a safe way to reopen schools

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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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