ShareSebhat Gebregzabher, a journalist and novelist known for his eccentric lifestyle and yet adored in literary circles as the ‘father of short-story writing’ died in Addis Ababa on Monday. He was 76. Sebhat’s golden days were during the emperor’s time, when he was a flamboyant handsome journalist whose very popular weekly columns appeared in...
ShareTwo Perth sisters were among the 43 passengers killed in a fiery bus crash in Ethiopia on Tuesday. Seble and Maza Getachew had lived in Perth for a number of years and studied at Curtin University as international students before recently relocating to Melbourne. The pair, who were not Australian citizens, was believed to...
Share Members of Faith Chapel’s Billings and Beyond outreach program have been to Ethiopia — nine times — but the most recent 9,000-mile trip, which wrapped up in late October, was a little different. The first eight times, teams focused on building projects for the New Hope Center for Children and Handicapped, which...
ShareADDIS ABABA—The line of Ethiopians extended out the door on a recent afternoon at the normally sleepy Addis Ababa University post office, where the lone clerk wasn’t selling stamps or weighing packages. She was dispensing a coveted lottery ticket—a shot at legal residence in the U.S. While the U.S. Postal Service strives to develop...
ShareAlthough he’s based in Brooklyn, filmmaker Peter Buntaine’s mind is far away these days. He is preparing to film a feature length documentary in Ethiopia titled “Church Forest.” The film is about the last pieces of Northern Ethiopia’s once contiguous forest, the inhabitants living within the forest and the danger of deforestation facing these...
ShareBy: Emaily Wax of Washington Post The petite, curlyhaired princess of Ethiopia is a mortgage loan officer who commutes 40 minutes a day, does her own dishes and shops for sales on twin sets at Tysons Corner Center. “I don’t have bodyguards clearing traffic or tailors stitching my clothes. This is America,” says Saba...
Share An Ethiopian nanny who says she suffered serious burns when the wife of one of Moammar Gadhafi’s sons poured boiling water over her after she refused to beat her charge is to have treatment in Malta, a government official said Thursday. “The government of Malta made arrangements for Shwejga Mullah to be...
Share Photo Credit: addismood.com Asnakech Worku, an Ethiopian pioneer whose romantic roles in theater and music raised the eyes of the conservative society in the ’50s, died at her home in Addis on Wednesday. She was 76. Born and raised in Addis Ababa, Asnaketch was a virtuoso in kirar, a five-stringed instrument widely used...
Share “እንቁጣጣሽ!በያመቱ ያምጣሽ” If you are unable to read of the Amharic texts in our website please click here to download the font and follow the direction to install it. Or read the PDF file click here. ወርሃ መስከረም በመድረ ኢትዮጵያ ቀዝቃዛው ክረምት ጓዙን ጠቅልሎ የሚሄድበትና መሬት ከሀይለኛ ዝናብ እፎይታ በማግኘቱ ሁሉንም እንካችሁ በሚል...
ShareMADRID, Sept. 2 – Ethiopian distance runner Haile Gebrselassie on Friday was awarded the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for Sports. During his career, the 38-year-old has won two Olympic gold medals in 10,000 meters, (Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000) and has been crowned as world champion four times, while also winning two silver and...
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