Month: January 2015
- Africa
Fire destroys historic Taitu Hotel
A fire that originated from inside the building has destroyed most of Taitu Hotel, the first Hotel in Ethiopia that was opened in 1895 and named after Empress Taitu. According to the Addis Abeba city Fire department, the fire in early Sunday has damaged most of the wooden structure building and its historic artifacts before it was put under…
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- Africa
Ethiopia’s forsaken
A country where 16% of the population “suffers from some kind of mental health disorders”, and just one specialized psychiatrist hospital Kalkidan Yibeltal Standing unassumingly at the foothold of Mount Entoto, the octagonal building of Saint Mary Church looks over the ever widening Addis Abeba. Built in the nineteenth century, the church, quite prominently, played host to the coronation of…
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Lake Nakuru National Park: A paradise on earth
There are a few places in the world where you can simply park your vehicle, get out and expect to see thousands of some of the world’s mesmerizing birds. Lake Nakuru National park in Kenya is one of them! Located in Central Kenya, some 140km northwest of the capital Nairobi, Lake Nakuru National Park is the precious asset of the…
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DA urges no house arrest for woman who abused adopted Ethiopian children
The Allegheny County district attorney’s office doesn’t want a woman who admitted abusing two adopted children from Ethiopia released on home confinement and electronic monitoring. Kristen Barbour, 32, of Franklin Park, pleaded no contest in June to two felony counts of endangering the welfare of children and was sentenced to six to 12 months’ incarceration, which included eligibility for alternative…
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Severine Safari Camp – an oasis in paradise
If you think a paradise is an imaginary lush green meadow with a bed of flowers to one side and a stream of water with colorful birds flying over the sky above it on the other, think again. There is an oasis in paradise – a different kind of paradise – that pleasingly blows your predetermined imagination of what a…
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Ethiopia denies reports about Yemen migrants’ drowning
Foreign Ministry spokesperson denies reports of drowning, saying reports are baseless propaganda. Ethiopian authorities have denied media reports about the drowning of around 70 Ethiopian migrants off Yemen’s coast. “Media reports that 70 people died, mostly Ethiopians, while being ferried to Yemen is baseless,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Dina Mufti told The Anadolu Agency on Wednesday. Media reports earlier…
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Ethiopians Seeking Birth Control: Caught Between Church And State
Her head draped with thin white fabric in the Ethiopian Orthodox tradition, Konjit walked to the stately entrance to the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa. But the soft-spoken 26-year-old did not go inside to pray because of her “sin.” Days before, she had had an abortion; she had become pregnant after her birth control failed. Like many women in…
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