Posts

REMARKS BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND PRIME MINISTER DESALEGN OF ETHIOPIA BEFORE BILATERAL MEETING

The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release September 25, 2014 United Nations Building New York City, New York 9:57 A.M. EDT PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I want to extend a warm welcome to Prime Minister Desalegn and his delegation. When I spoke previously at the Africa Summit about some of the bright spots and progress that were seeing in Africa, I think theres no better example than what has been happening in Ethiopia -- one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. We have seen enormous progress in a country that once had great difficulty feeding itself. Its now not only leading the pack in terms of agricultural production in the region, but will soon be an exporter potentially not just of agriculture, but also power because of the development thats been taking place there. Were strong trading partners. And most recently, Boeing has done a deal with Ethiopia, which will result in jobs here in the United States. And in discussions with

Coffee Meets Water: A new Campaign to fix broken water wells in Sidama

Image
COFFEE MEETS WATER IS a new campaign organized by Good Neighbors, an international humanitarian organization to fix broken water wells in Sidama . Photo from Goodneighbors To read more:  http://blog.goodneighbors.org/our-new-campaign-coffee-meets-water/

Blind dating at Hawassa University: claims and denials

Image
Nowadays, sexuality at most government universities is widely discussed in the public domain though this subject is taboo in the Ethiopian psyche. It is viewed taboo in most Ethiopian cultures. Sexuality is not discussed in public. It is widely believed that open discussion of sexuality with children within families will arouse their sexual drive. In most instances, the issue of sexuality are hidden. Accordingly, children particularly girls may grow up without the proper understanding of the subject. As a result of such traditional beliefs and sexual disorientation, perhaps not all sexual assaults, harassment, and intimidation which girls and women undergo are revealed. Relatively, rural women and girls are more vulnerable to this peril. In contrast to rural women and girls, girls who are born and grown up in cities and towns are in a better position to know more about sexuality. They can have good exposures of the subject from multiple sources: from family background, student cl

ኢትዮጵያ በዚህ ዓመት አንድ ቅርሷን በዩኔስኮ ልታስመዘግብ ነው፤ የፊቼ ጫምባላላስ ጉዳይ ከምን ደረሰ?

Image
አዲስ አበባ መስከረም 15/2007 ኢትዮጵያ ካሏት ቅርሶች መካከል በተያዘው ዓመት አንዱን በመንግሥታቱ ድርጅት የትምህርት፣ የሳይንስና የባልህ ድርጅት (ዩኔስኮ) በቅርስነት እንደምታስመዘግብ የቅርሥ ጥናትና ጥበቃ ባለሥልጣን አስታወቀ። የባለሥልጣኑ የባህላዊ ቅርስ ጥናትና ምርምር ዳይሬክተር አቶ ደሳለኝ አበባው ለኢዜአ እንዳስታወቁት አገሪቷ በድርጅቱ በጊዚያዊነት ካስመዘገበቻቸው አራት ቅርሶች መካከል አንዱን በዚህ ዓመት በቋሚነት ለማስመዝገብ እየተንቀሳቀሰች ነው። ዩኔስኮ በጊዚያዊነት ከመዘገባቸው መካከል የመልካ ቁንጡሬና የባጭልት የቅሪት አካል አካባቢዎች፣ የጌዲኦ ባህላዊና ተፈጥሯዊ መልከአ ምድር እንዲሁም የሶፍ ዑመር ዋሻና የድሬ ሼክ ሁሴን መንፈሳዊ፣ ባህላዊና ታሪካዊ ቅርሶች እንደሚገኙበት ገልጸዋል። ድርጅቱ ከየአገራቱ በየዓመቱ አንዳንድ ቅርሶች እንዲመዘገቡ በሚፈቅደው መሰረት ኢትዮጵያ ከእነዚህ አራት በጊዚያዊነት ከተመዘገቡት ቅርሶች አንዱን በተያዘው ዓመት ታስመዘግባለች ብለዋል። በቅርስነት ይመዘገባሉ ከሚጠበቁት ቅርሶች አንዱ የሆነው በላይኛው የአዋሽ ሸለቆ የሚገኘው የመልካ ቁንጡሬ ከግማኝ ክፍለ ዘመን በላይ የቅሪተ አካል ምርምርና ጥናት የተካሄደበት አካባቢ ነው። በአካባቢው ከ80 በላይ የቅሪተ አካል ንብርብሮች የተገኙ ሲሆን 30 ያህሉም በቁፋሮ መውጣት የቻሉ እንደሆነ ዳይሬክተሩ ገልጸዋል። በአካባቢው የሆሞ ኢሬክተስን ጨምሮ በአሥር ሺዎች የሚቆጠሩ የድንጋይ ቁሳቁሶች፣ የሰውና የእንስሳት ቅሪት አካላት በቁፋሮ የተገኙበት እንደሆነም ተናግረዋል። ከእነዚህ ቅርሶች በተጨማሪ ሦስት የማይዳሰሱ ቅርሶች በዩኔስኮ ጊዜያዊ መዝገብ ላይ በቅርስነት እንዲሰፈሩ ውሳኔ ይተላለፋል ተብሎ እንደሚጠበቅ አቶ ደሳለኝ አመልክተዋል። በማይዳሰስ ቅርስነ

ቡናን በቅቤ መጠጣት ለኣለም ህዝብ ያስተዋወቀው ሲዳማ ይሁን?

Image
Adding butter to coffee isn’t a recent invention, it appears I’m sure that you have heard about  Bulletproof® Coffee , the drink that really isn’t a drink but is one part of a wider ‘lifestyle’ brand that promotes weight loss and increased cognitive functions. As the story goes, Dave Asprey, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, learned about the “power of butter” in hot drinks when climbing Mount Kailash in Tibet and was given a cup of yak butter tea. We imagine at this moment that the discovery was played out in a comical cartoon fashion that featured lots of cogs whirring before he ran out into the snow shouting ‘Eureka!’ As he explains: “[I] was literally rejuvenated…This bio-hacker in me asked, ‘why?’” Well, he apparently found the ‘why?’ out and released his product after some time spent tinkering. But he may have been beaten by a few hundred years, as  Susan Wong  explains for Kenya’s Capital FM. The writer says that the trend of adding butter to coffee has been practi