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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Excerpt from report in English by state-owned Ethiopian news agency ENA website Addis Ababa, 10 May: President Girma Woldegiorgis on Saturday [10 May] laid down a corner stone to a cancer referral hospital to be constructed at a cost of 130m dollars.
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ReadingYA: Readers' Rants (Free subscription) | yesterday
I'm not a big fan of Arthurian myth -- Knights of the Round Table, Holy Grails, faithless Lancelot, mysterious Merlin, evil Morgaine, the magical time of chastity and chivalry in the flowering of Britian has been done and done, and done to death . Thus it was not with any enthusiasm that I picked up Elizabeth E. Wein's The Lion Hunter . Why on earth would adding sixth century Ethiopia to the...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jilaye Muluken's first son died of rabies at the age of seven; her second died after a fever at the age of two; her third was stillborn. The pain of losing her children so young, to disease so preventable, is not uncommon here in the village of Woreb, northern Ethiopia.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Somalia: Ethiopia Troops Return Warlord to Power in Somalia Region (Garowe)A notorious warlord in central Somalia has returned to his former seat of power at a provincial capital after being forced to flee in April by Islamist guerrillas.Yusuf Daboged, the former governor of Hiran region, told reporters by telephone that he is the "legitimate" governor of Hiran.Mr. Daboged said he is in the...
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ximblr.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Results of Saturday's 25-kilometer Fifth Third River Bank Run: Men1, Brian Sell, Rochester, Mich., 1 hour, 15 minutes, 6.5 seconds. 2, Wellay Weldegiyorgis, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1:16:05.15. 3, Reuben Chebii, West Chester, Pa., 1:16:34.7. 4, Fernando Cabada, Johnson City, Tenn., 1:17:00.4. 5, Todd Snyder, Utica, Mich., 1:17:14.15. 6, Mike Morgan, Rochester, [...]
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Solo Femininity (Free subscription) | yesterday
Greetings from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia! We arrived here late Friday night and are still sorting through some travel snafus. But we enjoyed a great Sunday with the people of Covenant Life Church of Addis Ababa. I hope to have photos and travel commentary posted in the next few days. In the meantime, here's something about contentment that I read before I left. I wrote this post in advance--and...
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | yesterday
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - The African Union Commission (AUC) warned Sunday that attack on the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, by armed elements of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) from the restive Darfur region in the west of the country would complicate the efforts of finding a political solution to the five-year crisis in the region.
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Brad Pitt Celebrity News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Our man in Africaguardian.co.uk, UK - 42 minutes ago(Drummond resolutely does not drop names, though he will from time to time say something like, 'I was in the mountains of Ethiopia with Brad Pitt when news …
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
GRAND RAPIDS -- Twenty years ago, the odds of William Chol reaching this milestone would have been long indeed. One of the Lost Boys of Sudan, he was fleeing civil war in a march for survival that took him through death and starvation to Ethiopia and eventually a refugee camp in Kenya.
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Government officials from East African countries will begin a workshop here 12 May in a bid to improve inter-state and intra-regi o nal cooperation on migration management.
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Africabeat (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Shawel Hailu stands in front of Laphto, a new multi-purpose entertainment center which will feature luxury apartments, an art gallery, bowling alley, pool hall, arcade, night club, cafe, fusion restaurant, shopping, swimming pool, health club, running track, movie theatre (for...
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Africabeat (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The (now former) Chinese Ambassador to Ethiopia, Lin Lin, sits with Mr. Wen, the head of CRBC in Ethiopia at opening of a new road linking a Chinese glass factory to a main thoroughfare. CRBC, a state-owned Chinese roads and...
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Prophecy Fellowship Forums (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Posted : Wed, 07 May 2008 18:39:05 GMT Hamburg - Archaeologists believe they have found the Queen of Sheba's palace at Axum, Ethiopia and an altar which held the most precious treasure of ancient Judaism, the Ark of the Covenant, the University of Hamburg said Wednesday. Scientists from the...
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raimondo | 12/17/2007
Like pearls from an ancient lover’s gift, Magdalene sites and legends lie cast across a vast expanse, reaching from Ethiopia, Palestine, Egypt, France and north to the highlands and isles of Scotland. Crumbling chapel ruins, great Gothic cathedrals, caves, symbols carved in stone, and stories of her coming and going remain like fragments of an old story necklace, waiting and waiting and still waiting