The Role of Credit in Ethiopia’s Economic Progress

By Tsehai Alemayehu Whether or not Ethiopia’s external debt is growing too fast and too large has become an emerging topic of conversation among many observers.  While the government is seeking to tap any and all sources of financing domestic and foreign, observers argue that the country needs to be very careful about acquiring any

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Ethiopia’s Gebru Wins Beijing Marathon Amid ‘Hazardous’ Smog

(Bloomberg)- Girmay Birhanu Gebru of Ethiopia won the Beijing Marathon as about 30,000 runners from 55 countries completed after a warning of hazardous haze engulfing the city. Gebru completed the race in 2 hours, 10 minutes and 42 seconds, the official Xinhua News Agency reported today. The organization committee of the race warned marathoners of

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Ethiopia’s Gebru Wins Beijing Marathon Amid ‘Hazardous’ Smog

(Bloomberg)- Girmay Birhanu Gebru of Ethiopia won the Beijing Marathon as about 30,000 runners from 55 countries completed after a warning of hazardous haze engulfing the city. Gebru completed the race in 2 hours, 10 minutes and 42 seconds, the official Xinhua News Agency reported today. The organization committee of the race warned marathoners of

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Ethiopia, a great new frontier in tourism (audio)

(IT) Podcast: Ethiopia is easy to get to, with direct flights from London and Frankfurt. Next year, it will get even easier with a new Ethiopian Airlines route from Addis Ababa to Los Angeles making a stop in Dublin Defeating stereotypes: much of Ethiopia is a green and lush with vegetation such as this crater

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Getty Ambau’s 3rd volume, DESTA: TO WHOM THE LIONS BOW has won Moonbeam’s 2014 Young Adult Fiction Award

News Release Desta, the precocious Ethiopian shepherd boy, again delights readers of all ages as he continues his epic search for the gold coin of magic and fortune. Inspirational Series of Novels for the Young and Young at Heart Who Seek Courage and Strength to Accomplish Life’s Goals and Dream SAN JOSE, California, October 14,

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Genzebe Dibaba among finalists of 2014 World Athlete of the Year

IAAF – With little more than a month to go until the 2014 World Athletics Gala, the IAAF has the pleasure in announcing the names of the three men and three women who are still in contention to become the 2014 World Athletes of the Year. The finalists were selected after a two-week-long poll of

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Air Force’s top-secret X-37B spacecraft lands after nearly two years in orbit

X-37B Orbital Vehicle (Reuters / HO) RT- The Air Force’s top-secret space plane landed in California on Friday morning after nearly two years orbiting Earth on a classified mission. The robotic spacecraft’s purpose remains a mystery, though surveillance is a likely candidate. The Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle ‒ an unpiloted aircraft that looks like

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Ethiopian-American Mohammed Tahiro Running for US Senate in Texas as a Write-in Candidate

Tahiro2014.org Mohammed Abbajebel Tahiro was born in Ethiopia in 1964. After completing his elementary and secondary education, he enrolled at Addis Ababa University with an academic interest in theoretical physics. Due to political upheaval and social instability, he left the country for a brief sojourn in Nairobi, Kenya before making the long journey to the

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Eprdf: Country Protected from Possible al-Shabab Attacks

Marthe van der Wolf VOA-Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the country is protected at all times from attacks by the Somali militant group al-Shabab but is asking its citizens to be vigilant. The American Embassy in Addis Ababa issued a terror warning earlier this week. Ethiopia’s government says that despite the terror alert issued

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Ethiopia Keeping ‘Open Mind’ On Cairo Dam Meet: Official

By Hagar al-Dosoki Ethiopian Irrigation Minister Alemayehu Tegenu has said that his government was “keeping an open mind and heart” ahead of a tripartite technical committee meeting in Cairo on Thursday to discuss an Ethiopian mega dam currently being built on the Nile River. Ethiopian Irrigation Minister Alemayehu Tegenu has said that his government was

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