Vote for Aster & Teddy for Kora Awards

22 April 2014 DireTube.com Ethiopian Artists Teddy Afro and Aster Aweke in the list of the 20 top nominees for this year’s Kora Awards. The awards ceremony is scheduled to take place on 2nd December in Ivory Coast. Teddy Afro

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Boston Marathon to run second-largest field in history one year after tragedy

21 April 2014 By Reuters Some 36,000 athletes, including Kenyan and Ethiopian runners who are consistently ranked among the world’s fastest, will run in the 118th Boston Marathon on Monday, putting the world-renown race back in the spotlight after it

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Ethiopian Suri tribe whose girls have lip plates implanted at puberty as a sign of beauty

20 April 2014 The Daily Mail Suri tribe girls have bottom two teeth removed when they hit puberty A small disc is then inserted into lower lip and size slowly increased The larger the disc the more cows father given

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Ester Rada: Israel’s rising Ethiopian Jew, music star

18 April 2014 BBC Ester Rada is one of Israel’s rising musical stars and has recently released her first album, Life Happens. She says growing up as the daughter of Ethiopian immigrants was sometimes confusing as “a black Jew in

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Ester Rada: Israel’s rising Ethiopian Jew, music star

18 April 2014 BBC Ester Rada is one of Israel’s rising musical stars and has recently released her first album, Life Happens. She says growing up as the daughter of Ethiopian immigrants was sometimes confusing as “a black Jew in

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British takes on civil war & crocodiles to walk length of Nile River

By Associated Press April 11, 2014 Former British army captain Levison Wood sets out walking along the Nile River from Juba, South Sudan, on April 9.Photo: AP Photo/Ilya Gridneff JUBA, South Sudan — Close calls with crocodiles, a brutal civil

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Linda Murithi Brings Editorial Edition to Hub of Africa Fashion Week

BY SUSAN WONG 8 APRIL 2014 Capital Lifestyle Magazine INTERVIEW Known as one of Africa’s most glamourous gatherings, Hub of Africa Fashion Week is planning to set the international fashion industry a buzz in October 2014, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Ethiopia Habtemariam Named President of Motown Records – Universal Music Group

Press Release SANTA MONICA, April 1, 2014—Universal Music Group (UMG) announced today a reorganization of its East Coast recorded music operations that re-establishes Def Jam Recordings, Island Records and Motown Records as stand-alone labels within the UMG family. The iconic

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Miss Africa Utah steps down, Miss Ethiopia takes her place

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Muluwerk Hale, Miss Ethiopia, in the Miss Africa Utah Pageant, at the University of Utah Union Ballroom, Saturday, March 8, 2014. one of nine women competing for the title of Miss Africa Utah,

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Miss Africa Utah steps down, Miss Ethiopia takes her place

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Muluwerk Hale, Miss Ethiopia, in the Miss Africa Utah Pageant, at the University of Utah Union Ballroom, Saturday, March 8, 2014. one of nine women competing for the title of Miss Africa Utah,

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