Month: December 2014

  • Africa

    Four hundred fifty Ethiopians treated at a full day ‘Eye Care Camp’

    Addis Abeba – Embassy of India in Addis Abeba said it has organized a full day ‘Eye Care Camp’ and examined 450 Ethiopians on Saturday Dec. 13th. In a statement the Embassy said it carried out the Eye Care Camp at the Embassy of India Premises in collaboration with the Indian Medical Professionals Forum and the Indian Women’s Association The…

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  • Standing up to Illiberalism

    By Chris Patten London – It is a rare political speech that stops me in my tracks. But that is exactly what happened this summer when I read a remarkable address by Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s increasingly authoritarian prime minister. Orbán rarely commands attention outside of his country. The last time he gave a speech as noteworthy as this summer’s was…

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  • Harnessing water to power Africa: Bigger solutions for bigger problems

    Zerihun Abebe Yigzaw Looking at the earth during a night flight across the continent Africa tells all the grim story of a darker and invisible continent; face it, it is not as illuminated as many continents are on earth – mainly Europe, North America and parts of Asia. Save for the North-Eastern corner of Africa (Egypt) and the southern tip…

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  • Africa

    Ethiopia to receive 13 million Praziquantel tablets in 2015

    Merck supports the World Health Organization (WHO) to fight the parasitic worm disease schistosomiasis in Africa   Addis Abeba – Merck, a leading company for innovative and top-quality, high-tech products in the pharmaceutical, chemical and life science sectors, today announced that Ethiopia will receive around 13 million praziquantel tablets in 2015. Merck supports the World Health Organization (WHO) to fight…

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  • Africa

    Selam unveils artists for the forth Selam Festival Addis (SFA)

    Addis Abeba- Selam Ethiopia on Thursday December 11, 2014 unveiled its initial line up artists for the forth coming Selam Festival; Addis (SFA). The fourth edition of Selam Festival Addis (SFA) will take place from January 17 to January 18, 2015 at the Floral Tropical Gardens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. SFA prides itself on bringing an eclectic line up of…

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  • Africa

    Saudi King grants US$35 million to fight Ebola in West Africa

    Jeddah – Saudi Arabia’s King Abdallah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud has granted US$35 million to help fight Ebola in West Africa. In a statement to the media on this occasion, Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Ali, President of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) said that the Ebola fighting program, initiated by King Abdallah and implemented by IDB, comprises of grants to provide schools…

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  • Iran in the middle

    Michel Rocard Paris – International negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program have been taking place, in one form or another, for more than a decade. So it is not surprising that the deadline for a final deal has been extended once again. Iran and its interlocutors – the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany (the P5+1)…

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  • Energy ambitions and a touch of reality

    Nolawi Melakedingil   News of sluggish economic performance in the euro zone and across the Atlantic in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis and its destabilizing impact for the world was steadily offset – thanks largely to manufacturing growth in China and commodity riders of the Middle East and Latin America. As the Asian powerhouses demanded more energy, food…

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  • Entertainment

    “The testament to one’s strength is determined on what we choose to do with the challenges that we face”

    Born in Ethiopia in 1974, Aïda left the country at a young age and spent an itinerant childhood between Yemen and England. After several years in a boarding school in Cyprus, she finally settled in Canada in 1985. After studying film at Howard University in Washington, D.C., she went on to work as a freelance photographer for The Washington Post.…

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  • #JusticeForHanna: She was a victim of gang rape; it should alarm the nation!

    Kamilat Mehdi, a young Ethiopian from Addis Abeba, was acid burned by her ex-boyfriend; and Betel Addisu, a resident in Wollega, in western Ethiopia, was also acid burned by a man who had had an intimate relationship with her. Both attacks left the victims’ delicate faces disfigured beyond recognition, forever. And Aberash Hailay, a flight attendant at the national carrier,…

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