Marthe van der Wolf, VOA Two optical telescopes are the latest means through which Ethiopia aims to use space technology to further the country’s development. The observatory is fully functional, and soon it will be fully operated by Ethiopia’s own engineers. Astrophysicist David Buckley and other scientists have been in Ethiopia for weeks to test
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By GlobeNewswire Oslo-A feasibility study, carried out on behalf of Yara International confirms significant potential to extract potash in the Danakil depression in northeastern Ethiopia. The independent study identified an annual production of 600,000 metric tons sulfate of potash (SOP) over 23 years from reserves (Kainite, Carnallite and Sylvinite) at Yara’s Danakil concession. The company,
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By Edmund Blair ADDIS ABABA, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Ethiopian banks and microfinance firms are launching mobile money services, helping reach swathes of the population that now have little access to branches or services, the mobile technology providers and banks said. The launch of the services, which allow customers to make payments or receive money
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Ebola vaccine Mark Doyle reports on the first people to receive the vaccine The first large-scale trials of two experimental vaccines against Ebola have begun in Liberia. The potentially preventative medicines were taken under strict security to a secret location in the West African country. Scientists aim to immunise 30,000 volunteers, including front-line health workers.
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By ICL ICL, a global manufacturer of products based on minerals that fulfill essential needs of the world’s growing population in the agriculture, processed food and engineered materials markets, announced that it launched a Potash for Growth program in Ethiopia. The program is designed to unlock the potential of agriculture in Ethiopia by promoting balanced
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By James Jeffrey, Aljazeera ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — When Eyoas Ergetu was a child, he became interested in space science but couldn’t find anywhere to study it. He went on to become a mechanical engineering graduate student at Addis Ababa University, where he studies. And, now 24, he has managed to find an outlet for his thwarted celestial
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Business Insider By Armin Rosen Last week, the US announced additional sanctions on North Korean government officials and state-owned entities in response to the cyber-attack on Sony, which both the FBI and President Barack Obama have attributed to Pyongyang. The Kim regime should be well-versed with US and international sanctions by now. UN Security Council
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By CHRISTINE MUNGAI, Mail & Guardian Africa Digitisation is allowing for virtual restitution of stolen artworks, and could even open the door to recreating slices of historic cultures in Africa. Benin bronze sculpture in the British Museum, London. (Photo: Flickr). AFRICA’S colonial experience not only displaced people, but histories, memories and cultural artefacts too. In the Congo, the
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By CHRISTINE MUNGAI, Mail & Guardian Africa Digitisation is allowing for virtual restitution of stolen artworks, and could even open the door to recreating slices of historic cultures in Africa. Benin bronze sculpture in the British Museum, London. (Photo: Flickr). AFRICA’S colonial experience not only displaced people, but histories, memories and cultural artefacts too. In the Congo, the
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By Armin Rosen, Herald-Dispatch North Korea was taken offline for 9 1/2 hours earlier this week, possibly as the result of a distributed denial of service attack. It wouldn’t take much to DDOS the entirety of North Korea: the country has only one pathway to the internet, through a connection with a “backbone” network hosted
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