Fri Feb 14, 2014 By Michael Roddy BERLIN (Reuters) – “Angelina Jolie presents” is the first thing on screen in the Ethiopian movie “Difret”, but the true story of a 14-year-old girl’s abduction, rape and trial for killing her abductor…
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AMSTERDAM | Fri Feb 14, 2014 AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A picture of African migrants standing on the shore of Djibouti City at night, their glimmering phones held aloft to catch a weak signal, won the World Press Photo prize on Friday for…
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By MARTHA CLIFF 2 February 2014 From kale chips to wheatgrass shots, the list of celebrity food crazes is a long one. Now there’s a new source of sustenance to add to the list – an Ethiopian cereal named teff. Loved…
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by STEPHANIE CHAN The Ethiopian model is stunning in the designer’s spring 2014 collection. Prabal Gurung has released his first-ever print campaign, featuring model Liya Kebede. Gurung – who finds fans in Michelle Obama, Kate Middleton and Zoe Saldana, to name a few — enlisted photographer Dan Jackson to shoot…
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Director Zeresenay Berhane Mehari & Producer Mihret Mandefro accept Audience Award for Difret on Saturday, Jan 25th at Sundance Film Festival (Photo Courtesy: Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony) By Tadias Staff Sunday, January, 26th 2014 New York (TADIAS) — Difret, an…
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RIYADH: RASHID HASSAN Tuesday 21 January 2014 Students from Ethiopian International School kept the audience enthralled with their impressive performance of ethnic African dance at the global food festival at Riyadh golf course. The students got a big round of…
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By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic January 20, 2014, 3:30 p.m. PARK CITY, Utah — When Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, newly arrived in the United States to continue his education, wrote to his father in Ethiopia that he’d decided to…
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By Jenny Vaughan Gondar (Ethiopia) (AFP) – The sun has not yet come up, but hundreds of people — cloaked in white shrouds and chanting biblical hymns — are already gathered at the holy baths in northern Ethiopia to celebrate…
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The BBC’s Komla Dumor had a wide-ranging career as an interviewer and presenter BBC TV presenter Komla Dumor has died suddenly at his home in London at the age of 41, it has been announced. Ghana-born Dumor was a presenter…
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