What’s out Addis Highlights of City life
Israel is set to get its first Ethiopia-born minister, with the nomination of a female MP brought there in a secret operation in the 1980s. Pnina Tamano-Shata has been chosen by incoming deputy prime minister Benny Gantz, who is forming a unity government with PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel’s Ethiopian-Jewish community often complains of discrimination. Incidents […]
A virtual visit to the highlands of Ethiopia is more fun that a barrel full of monkeys in that you will meet one of the world’s most fascinating primates — the Gelada baboons. See link below. The baboons have a dynamic and complex social structure, second only to man’s, making them a fascinating animal to
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Sally was an aristocrat, the daughter of a diplomat; her father’s posting as an Ethiopian diplomat meant that the family lived in various countries before settling in Canada in 1968. Selamawit Dawit – Sally to her friends – went to Carleton University in Ottawa and was a bright, outgoing young student with many friends and
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Many people today assume that unity and diversity are enemies. For example, we often hear in politics and religion about the “pro-unity camp” and the “pro-diversity camp.” This binary metaphor pictures unity and diversity as armies on a battlefield struggling for domination. But unity requires diversity. Without diversity, unity becomes sameness and destroys itself, because
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Addis Uncovered is a great new website that contains a wealth of information for both newcomers and residents alike. The brainchild of two friends Jennifer and Caitlin, this is how it evolved: “Caitlin moved to Addis in the summer of 2017 to conduct research for her PhD in Ethiopian history. Her husband came with her,
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The earth whispered but you did not hear.The earth spoke but you did not listenThe earth screamed but you turned her off.And so I was born…I was not born to punish you..I was born to awaken you..The earth cried out for help…Massive flooding. But you didn’t listen.Burning fires. But you didn’t listen.Strong hurricanes. But you
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Ethiopia launched on Monday a nationwide door-to-door temperature screening campaign to prevent and mitigate the spread of coronavirus. The move came in the face of a potential acceleration of the virus in the country of 110 million people. The Ministry of Health, earlier in the day, disclosed four new COVID-19 cases, raising the national total
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Masks and hand washing may help stem the coronavirus outbreak but in Ethiopia health officials are busy deploying another key resource: women. An army of community health workers – many of them women who in the 2000s helped reduce maternal mortality – are now trying to stop the disease spreading in the east African country.
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