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Ebola Screening Begins At Abuja Airport

Domestic and international inbound passengers are now being subjected to intense screening at the Abuja airport as part of measures to curtail the spread of the deadly Ebola virus through the Abuja...
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A City bus crashed at Entoto and seven persons passed away.

A bus crashed yesterday night 2;25 local time around Entoto Kidane- mihret kebele 19 while traveling from Kidane Mihret to Entoto and 7 persons died. In the accident three persons died immediately...
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Addis Ababa’s new 4G network impossible to use with any Smartphone

Addis Ababa’s Ethio-telecom expansion has been completed. Ethio-telecom announced yesterday. As the Telecom indicated the new fourth generation 4G network can provide service for 4 hundred thousand...
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Jara Mile River Bridge collapsed.

The bridge of Jara mile river located in the road from Addis Ababa-Woldiya-Mekele at 442 kms far from Addis is collapsed as a result of heavy raining flood in the surrounding last night. Accordng...
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Monkey Selfie Lands Photographer in Legal Quagmire

Copyright law can be obscure, but nothing could have prepared British photographer David Slater for what would happen after a monkey stole his camera in Indonesia to take a selfie. The picture,...
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Solar Lighting in Rural Ethiopia

This initiative establishes solar centers across Ethiopia to spread the technology to remote regions of the country. “Solar Lighting in Rural Ethiopia,” which also includes a central solar school...
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Tigray Development Association Marks Silver Jubilee

The Tigray Development Association (TDA) on Monday celebrated its founding anniversary in Mekele town of Tigray. The Association was established 25 years ago in Washington DC to address shortage of...
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Ethiopia has been selected as East Africa’s animal health service provision center

African Union selected Ethiopia as a center for animal health services programs it delivers in Africa. Training on capacity building of preventing cross-border animal diseases laboratory in Sebeta...
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Ethiopia charges five more magazines and 1 newspaper

The Ethiopian government has today charged the publishers and media outlets of five magazines (Lomi, Fact, Addis Gudaye, Jano, Enku) and one newspaper (Afro Times), local state media reported citing...
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How Ethiopians in the US cling onto their heritage

Like millions of other children in the United States, these American-Ethiopians are at summer camp. However, this one is about maintaining their connection with their roots abroad. Continue...
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Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2015 now open

Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2015 now open – USD 150,000 in prizes for continent’s brightest innovators to accelerate Africa’s development With 2000 innovators from 48 countries...
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Ethiopian Color Movie pioneer Michel Papatakis dies at 87

Ethiopian Color Movie pioneer Michel Papatakis dies at 87 Ethiopian film pioneer, Michel Papatakis, who is well known for his well acclaimed movie “Guma”, has died yesterday, aged 87. Born of...