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ጥቂት ስለ ሃዋሳ ከተማ የህዝብ ቤተመጽሐፍት

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At what level Hawasa Public Library is now? Library user requesting the librarian keeping their turn In a public library where almost more than 80 per cent of its first-string users are high school students who are marching to joining the higher education institutes, the inaccessibility of government prepared text books is simply an obstacle for their smooth academic journeys. As the text books are designed by scholars so as to feed higher educational institutes in the country with an enlightened generation that knows the economical, developmental, political, social and other directions of the nation, the government should be very much concerned about them. In spite of how relevant these text books are, high school students and users of the Hawasa Public Library are sternly complaining about the shortage of government text books. In fact, The Ethiopian Herald observed similar problems at Bahir Dar Public Library and dealt with hem a couple of months ago. With a population of o

National Coffee Week 2014: The history of coffee

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From bean to brew, there's more to the drink that has had a rich and mixed-blended history A cup of Latte - what is your favourite coffee though? A number of myths surround the origins of coffee and its first use but it is thought to have come from East Africa and cultivated by Arabs from the 14th century. One legend suggests a goatherd named Kaldi discovered coffee in the Ethiopian highlands after noticing his goats, upon eating berries from a tree, became so spirited they did not want to sleep at night. Kaldi reported his findings to the abbot of the local monastery, who made a drink from the berries and discovered it kept him awake for long hours. The abbot shared the discovery with the other monks who used the energizing effects to stay awake during long hours of evening prayer. Coffee beans are believed to have been exported from Ethiopia to Yemen in the middle of the 15th century with Sufi monks using the drink to drive away fatigue and lethargy during night-time

The War on Terror Has Turned Ethiopia Into a Surveillance State

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There’s a knock at your door. You open it, only to find several grave-looking police officers accusing you of a crime you didn’t commit. They pull out records of your most recent phone calls and tie you to your alleged co-conspirator, and now you’re screwed. This is Ethiopia. According to a  recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report,  Ethiopian surveillance of phones and emails is rampant.  Eskinder Nega , a journalist and dissident blogger, reports being shown emails, text messages, and phone recordings when approached by Ethiopian police who were investigating him. Nega’s newspaper, Ethiopis , was shut down for being critical of the Ethiopian government’s abuses in freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Nega was sentenced to 18 years in prison for allegedly conspiring against the government in July of 2012. “Ethiopia certainly doesn’t have the resources or capacity to engage in surveillance on the scale of the NSA—very few governments do,” Cynthia Wong, a Senior Researche

Ethiopia: Why does EPRDF negotiate with ONLF

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Djibouti (HAN) April 6, 2014 – Opinion By Gorse Ismail – In 1984, Zaid Barre formed Ogaden National Liberation Front ( ONLF) after the military man massacred 80 commanders of West Somali Liberation Front (WSLF). Zaid had taken the move to set up ONLF to expand its hegemony in Horn of Africa; however, it has not only dashed Somali nationalism, but fomented lasting mistrust among Somalis in the republic of Somalia. This has been one of the reasons that Somalia would not have had a government in the last twenty years. The eleven higher executive members of ONLF were not born in Ethiopia, but in Somalia. The chairman of ONLF, Admiral Mohamed Osman was the head of Marine in Somalia under the leadership of dictator regime of Zaid Barre. He does not have a clue about Ethiopian politics. On the contrary, the only one who was a native of Ethiopian Origin, Dr. Dolal was killed two years ago when he questioned genuinely ONLF to be the sole representative of all Somalis in Somali Region. Dr.

Medrek’s Meeting in Hawassa Successful Despite Harassment from Government

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Medrek’s Meeting in Hawassa Successful Despite Harassment from Government Posted: Ebla/April 5, 2014 · Gadaa.com Medrek has successfully held a public meeting in Hawassa on March 29  (Megabit 20, 2006 EC) , which was organized with the objective of public discussion of its “Political Manifesto” issued last year. This meeting was held by overcoming severe obstacles imposed by the ruling party/EPRDF Cadres and its government officials. The obstacles included: preventing/forbidding announcement of the meeting through public mass media; posting posters and distributing fliers about the meeting; announcing the date, time and place of the meeting using loudspeakers, etc. As a means of intimidation, they also detained 7 Medrek members, including Mr. Tilahun Endeshaw, the Vice Chairman of Ethiopian Social Democracy-Southern Coalition Unity Party (ESD-SCUP), in Hawassa, and  Mr. Bekele Gabiso in Bansa District in Sidama. Mr. Bekele Gabiso, who was arrested and put in jail since Marc