Whats Out Addis, people information about interesting people in town and in Ethiopian history
The Office of PM Abiy Ahmed announced on Tuesday July 21 that the first-round target of filling the mega-dam on Abay River, the main tributary of the River Nile, commenced. The office said the current rainfall and runoff situation in the region made conditions conducive to fill the dam “It has become evident over the […]
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Bekoji 100 is an award winning short film exploring the stories of Desta and Zabu, two GGRF adolescent female runners in Bekoji, Ethiopia. They share their athletic ambitions and the trials they face as young women in their society as they embark on completing the first-ever 100 mile, ultra relay race across Ethiopia alongside international
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The African Development Bank has approved a $1.2 million grant to Ethiopia’s government to finance a feasibility study into a standard-gauge railway (SGR) link between Ethiopia and neighbouring Sudan. This grant from the African Development Fund, the Group’s concessional-rate lending arm, covers 35% of the total cost of the study, estimated at $3.4 million. The
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Among the locals of Harar, Yusuf is known simply as “Hyena man”– a title he inherited from his father, Yusuf Saleh who began feeding hyenas in the 1960s to protect his livestock. As a child I took the train from Le Gare in Addis Ababa down to Dire Dawa and Harar. It would have been
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Rahel Mohammad is a successful businesswomen and the woman behind the success of supermarket All Mart. Her business admin and accounting degrees obtained in the USA as well as her experience in sales, as a cashier and finally supervisor at the famous U.S. department store chain, Kmart, gave Rahel the motivation that she could do
Profile: Business Entrepreneur Rahel Mohammed and Practicing CSR Read More »
Poaching is tragically on the rise in Ethiopia. Not only is it a devastating loss to an already dwindling elephant population here but a total disrespect by humans for this magnificent species….From more than10,000 elephants in 1970, there are now allegedly less than 3,000. The park was established in 1974 to protect elephants and giraffes.
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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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Habtamu Kehali’s skills in operating a ventilator may, for increasing numbers of patients, mean the difference between life and death. As the country’s only respiratory therapist, Kehali is rushing to train others to run the machines used to keep severely ill COVID-19 patients breathing. The World Health Organisation says around 5% of COVID-19 infections are
Sole respiratory therapist rushing to train others in the fight against COVID Read More »
NERD (New Era Research and Development) Center is finding a way to make oxygen ventilators to help combat the COVID-19 situation in the country. NERD is a research center for university students, graduates and hobbyists to develop their concepts into prototypes. The center provides prototyping services for any hardware projects composed of mechanical engineering, electrical
Local Ethiopian innovators at work creating oxygen ventilators Read More »
The world-renowned physician Dean Ornish, M.D., wrote, “I am not aware of any other factor in medicine that has a greater impact on our survival than the healing power of love and intimacy. Not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery.” According to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering
