By JENNY VAUGHAN Agence France-Presse ETHIOPIA, Jugol: People walk past the Fallana Gate on the northern part of the walled city Jugol in Ethiopia. The ancient wall and its five gates were initially built by an early king of Harar, Emir Nur ibn Mujahid, in order to keep outsiders from entering. AFP PHOTO / ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER
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Star News Online Sarah Isaac, a New Hanover County Schools counselor, poses with kids at the Children of Destiny Academy in Gofa, Ethiopia. Contributed photo By Sarah Isaac I took a leap of faith this summer, choosing to spend a month in Ethiopia. The few trips in high school where I was taken outside of
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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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The Wall Street Journal Once you’ve been up on the Roof of Africa in the Ethiopian Highlands, you won’t want to come downThe Simien Mountains Photo: Alamy By JEMIMA SISSONS HAULING MYSELF UP a stony path, the air thins with every breath. Ribbons of mist weave past me and a vulture circles overhead. Just when I think my
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By Clay McGlaughlin, Times Standard Photo show at Ethiopian International Cafe features women, children Maureen Fitzgerald has always loved to travel. Starting with a cross-country bus trip that brought her from Philadelphia to San Francisco in the late 1970s — traveling with her 6-month-old son, Michael, and $7 in her pocket — she has a
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Daniel Noll Uncornered Market Audrey around the bend, on the edge of the cliffside, a few inches from a long way down (about 500m / 1600ft). Worth the terror, slowly facing fears. Backdrop = Gheralta, Ethiopia. via Instagram http://ift.tt/1n7MchY This is Ethiopia? Yes. A land of many surprises. When I was growing up, I remember
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By STEPHEN SCOURFIELD The West Australian “Ethiopia has history, nature and culture,” says guide Firew Ayele. “The problem is that this was known as a country of drought and famine.” The very word “famine” still, decades later, provides too easy a couplet with the word “Ethiopia”. But, as Tony Evans points out, it was one
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By STEPHEN SCOURFIELD The West Australian “Ethiopia has history, nature and culture,” says guide Firew Ayele. “The problem is that this was known as a country of drought and famine.” The very word “famine” still, decades later, provides too easy a couplet with the word “Ethiopia”. But, as Tony Evans points out, it was one
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By MONICA KAYOMBO Zambia Daily Mail Monica Kayombo (right) with Memory Chipango, a travel agent at Voyagers Travel and Tours pose for a photo at the African Union Building in Addis Abba. PREPARATIONS for my second visit to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, after my first in 2010, started like any other, but little did I know
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By Lisa Bloom ETHIOPIA! What I learned in our two week trip, which just ended. (Now I’m in Israel on a very different kind of trip for the next ten days.) My highlights: 1. Ethiopians are the friendliest people I’ve met in my lifetime of travels to about 60 countries. It was just a constant
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