War, health, family concerns: St. Paul Optimist Club scholarship winners beat odds ‘to make a better future’

One fled war-torn Ethiopia, one has a degenerative neuromuscular condition and another hopes to represent Haiti in the 2028 ...

"Monitoring situation, all precautions taken": Civil Aviation Minister on Ethiopia volcano

Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu said, We have been monitoring the volcanic situation, which has originated ...

Optimist Club scholarship winners are ‘focused on trying to make a better future’

One fled war-torn Ethiopia and arrived in St. Paul at age 20. Another has a degenerative neuromuscular condition called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. There’s one who hopes to represent Haiti ...

This country is living in 2018, while the rest of the world is living in 2025; Sunrise occurs at 12 noon. Country is…

The world is living in 2025, but in Ethiopia, it’s 2018, because the Ethiopian Ge’ez calendar lags behind the Gregorian calendar by 7-8 years. The Ethiopian New Year begins in September. They call it ...
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Ethiopia: Let the Circle Be Unbroken - Meklit Hadero, a Piece of Infinity

The acclaimed Ethiopian-American artist Meklit Hadero released her new album A Piece of Infinity on September 26 on the Smithsonian Folkways label, and recently released sessions of these new ...

Ethiopia's Hayli Gubbi volcano erupts for first time after 10,000 years

The explosive eruption began around 8.30 am UTC on Sunday, said the Toulouse VAAC advisory. Satellite imagery later confirmed ...
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‘New Language Policy Will Set Nigeria’s Education backwards’

Nigeria's newly announced language policy has generated public outcry from some Nigerians, among them the President of the ...