Ethiopia Cup of Excellence auction breaks records
The 2020 Ethiopia Cup of Excellence (COE) auction has broken records, with total sales of 1,348,690 US Dollars topping the previous record of 830,245 US Dollars from El Salvador in 2011. The El Salvador auction …
Construction of Africa Centre for Disease Control HQ to Begin in Ethiopia
The proposed construction of the new Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is expected to begin this year, ahead of schedule. Xi Jinping, president of the People’s …
POETRY – Ribka Sibhatu
The Poetry Translation Centre (PTC) have just published Aulò! Aulò! Aulò!, Ribka Sibhatu’s latest collection which includes recent poems including some of her efforts to record the oral folklore and myths of Tigrinya tradition, and …
Ethiopian teff products prove popular in the uk market
Born out of a love for Teff and traditional Ethiopian cuisine, Tobia Teff started in 2008 and is run by Ethiopian-British husband and wife team Sefanit Sophie Sirak-Kebede & Meny Kebede. With a long and …
Ethiopia’s mobile camel library
A camel library is giving children out of school in some of Ethiopia’s most remote villages a unique opportunity to continue reading and learning, despite COVID-19 lockdowns. When schools were closed, I was very sad,” …
House cleaning home remedies
Ditch expensive cleaners and head for the vinegar, lemon andbleach, because we’ve found 10 home remediesguaranteed to make the toughest cleanups a breeze. Almost-Free All-Purpose CleanerWhy buy an antibacterial spray cleaner if you can make …
The Africa unbound museum
Rather than a collection of objects and materials, the Africa Unbound Museum offers a compelling human story – snapshots of “becoming” of the human species, in particular people of African descent – by drawing from …
Happy Ethiopian New Year
Enkutatash (Ge’ez: እንቁጣጣሽ) is the first day of the New Year in Ethiopia. It occurs on Meskerem 1 on the Ethiopian calendar, which is 11 September (or during a leap year on12 September) according to …
British Hives for Lives campaign supports honey producers in
Deforestation is a disaster for the environment, but it is a disaster for people too. Bees for Development workers see this in their work helping people around Lake to improve their lives through beekeeping. Here, …
2020 Great Ethiopian Run Postponed
Great Ethiopian Run has announced the postponement of the 2020 TOTAL Great Ethiopian Run International 10km race due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 20th edition of the race was scheduled to take place on November …
Training and job creation for vulnerable women; mask production in Tigray
Mesele Thair is pictured at work sewing masks in Ethiopia. She is among the young beneficiaries of a rural project that has been involved in the mask production within some of the major textile companies …
First Ethiopian railway operators graduate in China
The first batch of 34 young Ethiopians received railway operation training in central China’s Zhengzhou City and graduated yesterday. They will work as train drivers on the Ethiopia-Djibouti railway, the 756-km railway thats connects Ethiopia …
The Unlikely Story of Ethiopia’s Olympiacos Hellenic Athletic Association Byline: Philip Chrysopoulos
With its blue and white colors, private facilities, philanthropic work, many sports clubs, the Olympiacos Hellenic Athletic Association goes beyond embracing the Addis Ababa Greek community and represents Hellenism itself in the African country. In …
Sheger bread factory – providing discounted bread and multiple jobs
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed inaugurated Sheger Bread Factory, the largest bakery and flour factory in Africa. Built in Kaliti on 41,000 square meters of land, it will be able to reduce the current cost of …
Rediet Abebe; trailblazing ahead
When Rediet Abebe, M.S. ’18, Ph.D. ’19, came to the United States from Ethiopia, she was surprised to find such drastic inequality. “At least in Ethiopia, we were sort of resource constrained – I could …
