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After Kenenisa Bekele Falters, Tamirat Tola Becomes 9th Fastest Marathoner Ever
A fall at the start of race doomed Bekele’s record attempt, opening the door to countryman Tola
By Erin Strout
Before it ever really started, Kenenisa Bekele’s attempt at the marathon world record was over on Friday in Dubai when he tripped...
Bekele sets 02:01:30 marathon career target [Reuters]
By Alexander Cornwell | DUBAI
Triple Olympic track champion Kenenisa Bekele, the second-fastest marathon runner in history, said on Wednesday he can shave around 90 seconds off the current world record over the classic 26.2 mile distance before...
EXCLUSIVE - 'Please just let me speak to my daughter': Biological mother of Angelina Jolie’s adopted girl Zahara, 12, demands access from Ethiopia after Brangelina love split (Daily Mail)
Mentewab Dawit Lebiso was forced to give her daughter up after she was raped
Poverty stricken 31-year-old was attacked then fell sick after her baby was born
Jolie adopted the daughter from Ethiopia believing she was an ‘Aids orphan’
Now...
New drought strikes millions in Ethiopia, still reeling from El Nino
Reuters
By Katy Migiro
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Millions of Ethiopians face a hunger crisis for a second consecutive year after drought hit sub-Saharan Africa’s second most populous nation, the United Nations said on...
Farewell, Barack Obama! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
To: President Barack Obama:
As I bid you farewell and adieu, I ask you three questions on matters that are enormously important to me:
Is Africa better off today than when you became president on January 20, 2009?
Is Ethiopia better off today...
Ethiopia: U.S. Embassy suspends travel to Gondar
The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa is temporarily suspending all travel for U.S. Chief of Mission employees to Gondar until further notice.
The Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) said in a security message to U.S.citizens that the Embassy...