Africa
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Kenya’s deadly night riders
By Michael Meyer NAIROBI – It sounds like the plot of an old Western movie. A posse of desperados gallops…
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Pope Francis launches a campaign to help African Albinos
Pope Francis recorded his voice last 30 November, reading several passages from the book “Ombra Bianco” (“White Shadow”) by the…
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U.S. Embassy awards student journalism competition winners
The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa presented awards to three university students as part of the Embassy’s second Student Journalism…
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Tourism:The best way to connect Ethiopia and Kenya
Henry George Okoch It goes without saying that Ethiopia’s tourism industry has for long lagged behind other African nations, least…
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A new master plan:Complicated-turned-deadly
A recent plan to build a fantastic Addis Abeba is complicated and has turned deadly. It is not terribly late…
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Southern Africa most unequal region in Africa
The higher the country’s income, the higher the levels of inequality. This is according to preliminary findings of a new…
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Making impact investible key to removing roadblocks on the way to Middle Income
Dr Maximilian Martin, exclusive for Addis Standard Ethiopia is part of a new set of high-opportunity countries with exceptional…
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Tolerating free marketplace of ideas that never was, and still is
In many ways than few, the Ethiopia of 23 years before look nothing like the Ethiopia of today. Nor should…
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South Sudanese refugees update: MSF calls for special mobilization
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International, an organization providing medical aid to South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia since January this year,…
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