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Teen from Ethiopia goes missing during first day of school in Winnipeg [Sun News]
KRISTIN ANNABLE | QMI AGENCY
WINNIPEG – Police are looking for a 17-year-old girl, newly arrived to Canada from Ethiopia, who failed to return home from her first day at a new school.
Police say Bethelihem Zeleke Eliso moved to Winnipeg...
The people pushed out of Ethiopia's fertile farmland [BBC]
By Matthew Newsome
Ethiopia
The construction of a huge dam in Ethiopia and the introduction of large-scale agricultural businesses has been controversial – finding out what local people think can be hard, but with the help of a bottle...
Hailemariam’s fake “top 10 educated” list falls apart [By Abebe Gellaw]
The official website of India TV that had published a dubious online ranking two weeks ago that it claimed to be a list of the “top 10 most educated politicians in the world” has retracted the story.
Indiantvnews.com has now pulled back...
Ethiopian Dreams for 2015 and Beyond [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,… [and] see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams”
A Happy New Year to all of my readers!!!
I get to celebrate New Year twice every year. The first on September 11, the Ethiopian New...
DIBABA SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDS HER XIAMEN TITLE AS BOTH COURSE RECORDS FALL[IAAF]
Ethiopia’s Mare Dibaba won the Xiamen Marathon for the second year in succession, taking more than one-and-a-half minutes off the course record she set last year at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race, winning in 2:19:52 on Saturday (3).
For the...
In 2015 We Should Be the Change [Belay Fekadu, President of Unity for Democracy and Justice]
I hope 2015 will be a different year for Ethiopia. I hope democracy will finally flourish in our country. History tells us that, Ethiopia’s present and future, for a long time, has been determined by not the will of our people but by succession...
Ethiopians Admasu and Ayalew win Brazil road race [AP]
AO PAULO (AP) – Ethiopia’s Dawit Admasu won the St. Silvester road race in Brazil on Wednesday, crossing the line a second ahead of Kenya’s Stanley Koech.
Admasu finished the 15-kilometer (9.3-mile) course through South America’s...
