D Magazine BY: CRISTINA DAGLAS Birhan Mekonnen Birhan “Mac” Mekonnen is standing on hisbalcony, surveying acres of land, reflecting on what he’s built. The balcony rests just below the most unique architectural feature of his home in Heath—a dome modeled after Fasil Castle in Gondar, Ethiopia. Gondar is Mekonnen’s hometown, the hometown he fled in 1977,
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D Magazine BY: CRISTINA DAGLAS Birhan Mekonnen Birhan “Mac” Mekonnen is standing on hisbalcony, surveying acres of land, reflecting on what he’s built. The balcony rests just below the most unique architectural feature of his home in Heath—a dome modeled after Fasil Castle in Gondar, Ethiopia. Gondar is Mekonnen’s hometown, the hometown he fled in 1977,
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By Kim Lewis, VOA The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says a series of tragic deaths in the Mediterranean last weekend marks one of the deadliest periods for the year for migrants trying to reach Italy from North Africa. An estimated 230 migrants have been lost and presumed dead over several days. In one incident 200
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Tadias The award-wining Ethiopian film ‘Difret’ will premiere at the National Theater in Addis Ababa on Wednesday, September 3rd. Directed by Zeresenay Mehari the film narrates the true story of a teenager who was a victim of telefa — a traditional custom of marriage by abduction in Ethiopia — who gained public attention when she
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PRWEB The Yara Prize 2014 is being awarded to Professor Tekalign Mamo Assefa. Currently state minister and adviser to the Ethiopian Minister of Agriculture, Professor Mamo has long been a key contributor to the country’s food security, soil health, and natural resources programs. Oslo, Norway (PRWEB UK) For 2014, the Yara Prize Committee has focused
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AFP Guarabouli (Libya) (AFP) – Libyan rescuers have recovered the bodies of around 170 people after a boat carrying illegal migrants from sub-Saharan Africa sank at sea last week, a coast guard official said Monday. “We freed about 100 bodies trapped in the hold of the 16-metre (50-foot) wooden boat which foundered not far from
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By Alemayehu G Mariam This commentary, perhaps confession is a better descriptor, has been long in coming. Why have I written lengthy weekly Monday commentaries for hundreds of weeks without missing a single week? Why are my “commentaries so long”? Why am I so critical of the ruling regime in Ethiopia and hypercritical of the
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By Alemayehu G Mariam This commentary, perhaps confession is a better descriptor, has been long in coming. Why have I written lengthy weekly Monday commentaries for hundreds of weeks without missing a single week? Why are my “commentaries so long”? Why am I so critical of the ruling regime in Ethiopia and hypercritical of the
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The Seattle globalist By Aida Solomon I am Ethiopia: Mintwab Zemeadim: http://youtu.be/tWF8dN6-In4 Born in Ethiopia and raised in Seattle, Mintwab Zemeadim was exposed to two vastly different portrayals of Ethiopia during her upbringing — the way the country was depicted in western media, and the way she heard it described by her family. She recently returned
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By Tony Saxon Tge Record GUELPH — Where’s Mimi? Members of the region’s Ethiopian community held a rally in Guelph Sunday afternoon asking that very question, raising awareness about the disappearance of Seble “Mimi” Dietrich and to hopefully pressure Guelph police “to do more.” Dietrich, 39, has been missing for over a month. The married
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