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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 in the Tigray Region. Among 531 students graduated in textile technical training, 115 of them are now engaged in mask […]
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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 to Djibouti. Dagmawit Moges, Ethiopia’s Minister of Transport, has congratulated the graduates. “As Ethiopia’s first graduates, remember the great responsibility
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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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Midako have recently published a 200 page textbook on reading comprehension and twelve supplementary books. This textbook will teach early readers how to understand the main idea of a text, who the characters are, the setting, and the plot. It will also teach them cause and effect and comparisons and contrasting. Each chapter has a
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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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Read the book about this incredible escapade and then see the film! In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers know that the staff were undercover spies, working for
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Ethiopia is one of the main honey producing countries in Africa. This 2014 documentary, Honeys of Ethiopia, takes a look at some of the special honeys that are produced in different regions of the country. The film promotes the Honey Network: a network of beekeepers and farmers that, through specific educational training, improvements in marketing
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Ethiopia has started disinfecting tourist attraction sites as a part of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Disinfecting was undertaken at the National Museum and other historical and cultural sites in the capital. The disinfection activity will continue in other tourist attractions sites such as Tiya Stelae, Harar Town, Gondar Fasiledes Castle, Lalibela Rock-Hewn Churches
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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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