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Ethiopia: Millions More Going Hungry As Aid Effort Stalls - Oxfam Agency Calls for Rich Countries to Redouble Aid Effort

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The number of Ethiopians needing emergency assistance has leapt by 40 percent from 4.6 million to 6.4 million people since June, Oxfam said citing latest official figures from the United Nations and the Ethiopian government.

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Album: Dub Colossus, A Town Called Addis, (RealWorld)

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In 1990, long before world music had acquired radical chic and bankability, Nick Page reinvented himself as Count Dubulah and formed Transglobal Underground, the first pan-cultural groove merchants to discover the heady potential of combining ethnic elements within the hypnotic rhythms and spacey ambiences of house music.

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Ethiopia: WFP Donates Vehicles Worth 1.2 Million to Somali Regional Gov't

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday donated vehicles and motorcycles valued at over 1.2 million Birr, to the Somali Regional Government to help enhance the region's food aid management and capacity building activities.

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Ethiopia: Online Natural Resources Dev't Forum Launched

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New website containing a range of assorted web pages of agricultural and natural development organizations was launched with the aim of enabling all members and the general public to connect and share best practices and experiences, announced Sustainable Land Use Forum (SLUF) on Tuesday.

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Ethiopia: UK Provides Partnership Opportunities for Institutions

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UK provides the fourth round education partnership opportunity for governmental and private higher educating institutions in Ethiopia that aim to build their capacity through research, training in partnership with well established Universities all over the world, said a business director of UK-Africa Higher Education Partnership yesterday.

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Ethiopia And India Agree to Enhance Bilateral Trade And Investment Relations

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Ethiopia and India agreed on Tuesday to further enhance their bilateral relations on trade and investment. A high level Indian business delegation led by Indian State Minister of Commerce and Power, Jairam Ramesh has been visiting Ethiopia since Monday evening. Ramesh told journalists in Addis Ababa that his government has the desire to boost the existing [...]

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Prudence pays off in Ethiopia as the Global Economy is ffacing exercise

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Prudence pays off in Ethiopia With the financial turmoil affecting many of the world's economies, Elizabeth Blunt in Addis Ababa considers how Ethiopia and other parts of Africa may escape the worst of the credit crisis. The big rise in global food prices was quickly felt in Ethiopia The other evening I came home from the bakers with a couple of very small loaves of bread. My gatekeeper looked at them...

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Ethiopia a different world

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Steven 8 October 2008We have neglected our blog as our trip to and around Ethiopia did not provide us with the opportunity to access the Internet We can access in Addis but it is very slow but we will add this blog and some photos before we head off to Tel Aviv tomorrow Time seems to be passing fairly quickly now we have reached the half way pointWe arrived in Ethiopia at 0600 in the morni

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Ethiopia: Country Falls a Step Back in Governance, As Most in Africa Improve - Survey

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Ethiopia's overall score in an Index of African Governance declined to 50.9 out of 100 in between 2005 and 2006, as the country fell one place to rank 3l out of sub-Saharan Africa's 48 countries, the latest Index revealed on Monday.

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How the financial crisis affects Ethiopia

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The BBC sub-editor picked an angle, with the headlinePrudence pays off in Ethiopia and the teaser: With the financial turmoil affecting many of the world’s economies, Elizabeth Blunt in Addis Ababa considers how Ethiopia and other parts of Africa may escape the worst of the credit crisis. But that isn’t consistent with the rest of the article: Over [...]

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Ethiopia: President Opens Parliament, Announces Reforms

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President Girma Woldegiorgis has opened the Parliament with an address that has identified the ensuring of good governance and sustainable peace as being key aims among the government's priorities for the country over the course of the year ahead.

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RE: Google Maps for Ethiopia

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Author: sawu Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:36 pm (GMT -5) Topic Replies: 1 I think I could have too much fun with this... Check out American Embassy in Addis and my morning exercises road. http://www.google.com/mapmaker.....&z=17] not a good example I know...couldn't resists.

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Ethiopia frees eight Kenyans

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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Eight Kenyans deported to Ethiopia and held there as terror suspects for more than a year have returned home, an official said. The eight men were jailed last year on suspicion of being members of an Islamic militia driven out of Somalia by Ethiopian troops, BBC reported Saturday. A Kenyan government official said the men have all been returned to their homes....

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Ethiopia: Cambridge University to Launch International Diploma Program

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University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) partnered with Zemen Development and Management Institute (ZDMI) in Addis Ababa is to launch associate partnership which is said to bring a major capacity building qualification Ethiopia.

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