By James Jeffrey, Aljazeera ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — When Eyoas Ergetu was a child, he became interested in space science but couldn’t find anywhere to study it. He went on to become a mechanical engineering graduate student at Addis Ababa University, where he studies. And, now 24, he has managed to find an outlet for his thwarted celestial
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An Ethiopian cargo plane on Saturday crash-landed at the Kotoka International Airport. Airport officials say the incident occurred when the aircraft was attempting to land in a bad weather. Confirming the incident to citifmonline.com, the Corporate Communications Officer of Ghana Airport Company, Newman Quartey, said the incident happened around 11:05am on Saturday. He said the
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An Atlanta man who previously ran an adoption agency pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to his role in a scheme involving children from Ethiopia, the U.S. Department of Justice said. James Harding, 55, admitted that between 2008 and 2009, he and his co-conspirators submitted fraudulent documents to the State Department to facilitate adoptions of
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By BRONWYN BRUTON – Politico.com John Kerry’s hastily announced trip to Africa last May 2014 is something of an occasion: It’s the first time he has set foot in sub-Saharan Africa as secretary of state aside from a brief visit just to Addis Ababa in May 2013. But the abruptness of the trip—announced barely half
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Once again rumors of the death of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro have spread across the exile community and across social media. El Diario de las Américas, a Florida-based publication read mostly by Cuban exiles, reported Thursday that the Cuban government had called a press conference amid speculation about Castro’s health. The Cuban government later
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When Meseret Defar and Bernard Lagat compete at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on 7 February, both will be marking milestones in their careers at the IAAF Indoor Permit meeting. Two-time Olympic champion Defar will be competing for the first time since the birth of her daughter in June. Her last race was at
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia is launching a national initiative in schools this year to treat children at risk of infection from parasitic worms, mirroring a program in Kenya which has improved child health and school attendance, a charity involved said. Ethiopia aims to treat at least 80 percent of children at risk from parasitic
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By GRAHAM PEEBLES Ethiopia is being hailed as a shining example of African economic growth. Principle donors and devotees of the International Monetary Fund/World Bank development model (an imposed ideological vision which measures all things in terms of a nations GDP) see the country as an island of potential prosperity and stability within a region
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By Sandra Dindi One of the best international writers of African decent, Dinaw Mengetsu, has been nominated for the prestigious Folio prize in 2015. The accomplished Ethiopian-American author was nominated last month alongside other favorite African writers-Damon Galgut and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. The £40,000 literature prize was initiated in 2014 to recognize accomplished literature writers
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Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb and other seven ministers and a number of media hosts, journalists and artists signed Monday a document pledging to protect the Nile water. “In light of the fierce attack against the Nile River which is the lifeline for Egyptians and the gift of their presence, and out of respect for the
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