African Business By JAMES JEFFREY With her new company, Eleni Gabre-Madhin aims to take the commodity exchange momentum that started with the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange, to the rest of Africa. Report by James Jeffrey in Addis Ababa. The offices of commodity exchange company, eleni, occupy the top two floors of Tracon Tower, where one can gaze north and south
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AFP Moscow-Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday promised Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to speed up the delivery of billions of dollars in arms and invited Cairo to forge free trade ties with a Moscow-led customs bloc. The two strong-willed leaders have developed a warm working relationship since Putin gave his backing to Sisi’s presidential
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Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele wins his 11th – and last – senior world cross-country title in 2008. (Adrian Dennis / AFP / Getty Images) By Philip Hersh Chicago Tribune The Chicago Marathon never has had a runner with a track record as distinguished as Kenenisa Bekele’s. Kenenisa Bekele holds the world records at 5,000 and 10,000 meters.
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World Bulletin/News Desk “Dialogue and understanding are the best way to resolve the crisis,” al-Sisi said in an interview with the state-run Al-Ahram daily on Saturday. “This is better than going into a dispute or an enmity with anyone,” he added. The former army chief, who led the army to unseat elected president Mohamed Morsi
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BBC Fighting has disrupted farming in South Sudan leading to nationwide food shortages and malnutrition The US is providing $180m (£107m) in emergency aid to help address the food crisis in South Sudan, US National Security Adviser Susan Rice says. She said suffering there was caused by rival leaders’ inability “to put their people’s interests
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The New York Times By ANDREW POLLACK The doctor who had been leading Sierra Leone’s battle against the Ebola outbreak was now fighting for his own life, and his international colleagues faced a fateful decision: whether to give him a drug that had never before been tested on people. Would the drug, known as ZMapp, help the stricken
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Reporters Without Borders Ethiopia’s justice ministry has announced that it is bringing criminal charges ranging from “dissemination of false rumours with the intent of overthrowing the government” to “undermining public trust in the government and attempts at fostering ethnic and religious divisions” against six news weeklies. In a communiqué released on 5 August, the ministry
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Reporters Without Borders Ethiopia’s justice ministry has announced that it is bringing criminal charges ranging from “dissemination of false rumours with the intent of overthrowing the government” to “undermining public trust in the government and attempts at fostering ethnic and religious divisions” against six news weeklies. In a communiqué released on 5 August, the ministry
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Yahoo By Sara Bliss Photo: Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu A native of Ethiopia, Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu is the founder of soleRebels, a line of colorful footwear that pairs Ethiopian craftsmanship with western design. The handmade, fair-trade shoes are made entirely in her native country and sold in 55 others. Alemu, who was recently named aForbes Woman to Watch,
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Yahoo By Sara Bliss Photo: Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu A native of Ethiopia, Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu is the founder of soleRebels, a line of colorful footwear that pairs Ethiopian craftsmanship with western design. The handmade, fair-trade shoes are made entirely in her native country and sold in 55 others. Alemu, who was recently named aForbes Woman to Watch,
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