Addis Ababa, 21 January 2014 (WIC)- A research project for developing varieties of enset, a traditional Ethiopian crop which resembles the banana plant, resistant to the deadly bacterial wilt disease has been launched. The project launched last month (16…
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January 21, 2014 Binyavanga Wainaina won the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing Leading Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina has come out to say he is gay, making him one of the most high-profile Africans to do so. He made the…
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Jan 21, 2014 After all attempts to solve the Egyptian-Ethiopian crisis over the Renaissance Dam at the negotiating tableended in failure after a third round of negotiations on Jan. 4, with Egypt withdrawing from the discussions and conferences being held in Khartoum, there is now…
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By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic January 20, 2014, 3:30 p.m. PARK CITY, Utah — When Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, newly arrived in the United States to continue his education, wrote to his father in Ethiopia that he’d decided to…
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By H. Mikael January 20, 2014 Recently, I came across commentaries on Ethiomedia.com by Ambassadors Cohen and Shinn and, as an Ethiopian, I wish to share my reflection by commenting on the matter as it concerns all Ethiopians at present…
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Cover of the book Crossing Ethiopia: A 1972 Photographic Journal Retracing the Last March of Emperor Tewodros to Magdala. (Photo Courtesy: John Snyder)Tadias MagazinePublished: Monday, January 20th, 2014
New York (TADIAS) — Forty two years ago, John Snyder traveled with his wife to Ethiopia to retrace Emperor Tewodros’ final route to Magdala to face British troops numbering over 60,000.
“I had just finished reading Alan Moorehead’s ‘The Blue Nile’ and I was fascinated by Emperor Tewodros and his battle with the British,” John told Tadias. “I had traveled to Kenya and Tanzania to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, and now my interest in Ethiopia was peaked.”
After contacting both the Ethiopian consulate and the office of Ethiopian Airlines to inquire about the feasibility of the route, John was connected to the late Professor Donald Crummey — who was teaching at Addis Ababa University at the time — and an Ethiopian translator. Arriving in Ethiopia John and his wife began the 300 mile expedition by bus, Land Rover, mule and foot, and John recorded his meetings with governors and civilians along the way and took extraordinary photographs, a selection of which are now published in his new book: Crossing Ethiopia.
Following the treacherous and unpaved route taken by Emperor Tewodros and his army John set out to see firsthand where Ethiopian and British “armies converged for a showdown at Magdala, a mountaintop fortress where a handful of European prisoners were residing in fetters at the mercy of the Emperor.” John noted in his introduction: “Costing $9 million in 1867 sterling, (translating to over $5 billion today) it was, and remains, history’s most expensive hostage rescue operation.”
The author will be giving a book talk in Manhattan at the New York Society Library on Tuesday, February 18th that is open to the public and in Chicago on Sunday, February 23rd, 2014.
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Crossing Ethiopia: A 1972 Photographic Journal Retracing the Last March of Emperor Tewodros to Magdala
Tuesday, February 18th, 2014
6:30pm at Members’ Room $10 advance registration/ $15 at door
53 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10075
(212) 288-6900
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2014
57th St. Books
1301 East 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
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DUBLIN, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Ethiopian Airlines is looking at placing an order for 10-20 narrowbody jets, its chief executive told Reuters on Monday. Such an order would be worth $1-2 billion at list prices. Ethiopian will probably study proposals…
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Ethiopian route map from Addis Ababa to China, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore BY PROF. DR. WOLFGANG H. THOME, ETN AFRICA CORRESPONDENT | JAN 20, 2014 Ethiopian Airlines (ET) will commence daily flights from Addis Ababa to Shanghai as…
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By Jenny Vaughan Gondar (Ethiopia) (AFP) – The sun has not yet come up, but hundreds of people — cloaked in white shrouds and chanting biblical hymns — are already gathered at the holy baths in northern Ethiopia to celebrate…
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20 January 2014 , By Awet T. Weldemichael, Source: African Arguments In a span of a month, three towering figures – if retired – in American foreign policy establishment on Africa publicly called for an end to the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict and…
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