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NW mom nurtures communities for multi-racial families. Photo: www.northdenvertr ibune.com Ethiopian event celebrates culture, literacy Sloan’s Lake—Jen Kraft builds communities. As the adopted mother of a three-year-old Ethiopian daughter, she is the hub of a group of Ethiopian-American families in Denver whose adopted children are the same age. The families stay connected to Denver’s larger community of Ethiopian immigrants. Kraft moved from Manhattan to Northwest Denver in 2004. She adopted Tali Bamlak in 2011 when she was four months old. Kraft met other adoptive parents from Denver at the orphanage in Ethiopia. “We realized our children were born at the same time and we became good friends. Our five children now attend the same preschool here in Denver. It’s important to keep Tali with her friends from Ethiopia because they share such an important history,” Kraft said. Kraft is helping to coordinate “An Ethiopian Odyssey,” a showing of work by four artists who travelle

New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS):  The problem of child marriage is common to both Ethiopia and India and both can learn from each other's development models for tackling it, experts said here Friday. Tesfaynesh Aregaw, director, Youth Affairs, Ministry of Women and Children of Ethiopia, said: "As in India, the problem of early or child marriage exists in many parts of Ethiopia." She was speaking at a conference on the Ethiopian policymakers' knowledge visit to India. She said that Ethiopia has formulated a structure where women's self-help groups address these issues and the Indian government can study this model to see if it can be effective in India. Aregaw said though the problem of child marriage facing India and Ethiopia was the same, the issues leading to it were different. She added: "In India, it is related to social causes like dowry while in Ethiopia, it is more due to poverty." Leena Sushant, director research at NGO Breakthrough, said

The Sidama Liberation Movement (SLM) is over four decades old organisation of the Sidama nation fighting for nation's Freedom, Justice, Liberty and Equality. The nation has had this organisation informally for the period of over six to seven decades although it has been organisationally re-structured in early 1970s under the leadership of few groups of Sidama personalities from whom Kaala Woldeamanuel Duable was the one. Tragically and Sadly the late aforementioned SLM leadership finally surrendered his cause when he, during the May 15, 2005 Ethiopian highly rigged and fake election went back to surrender and work for the regime enslaving his own Sidama nation during his final days on earth. He campaigned on behalf of TPLF's brutal regime stating to the Sidama nation that TPLF is God's messenger for the Sidama people (a very unpalatable end for a person who claimed fighting for the freedom and justice of the nation). Besides, SLM has tremendously contributed to the

Correct no more: It's Sidam-A. In the Sidamo/Sidama Controversy, We're the Ones Who Sounded Like a Tool Thanks to a series of  comments  appearing under our latest "Don't Sound Like a Tool" audio guide, SFoodie learned of a subtle shift in the spelling of an Ethiopian coffee-growing region that has much larger political undertones.  We've been happily drinking Sidamo coffee for years, believing that the name refers to Sidamo Province in southern Ethiopia. However, it turns out that "Sidamo," a name given the province more than a century ago, is a  derogatory  way to refer to the Sidama people who live in the region. As this 2007  American Chronicle  article  describes , over the past three years  Ethiopian trade groups  and coffee exporters and importers have been lobbying for coffee companies to start marketing coffee from the region as "Sidama."  Word is still getting out:  Starbucks ,  Barefoot ,  Verve , and  Equator  stil

LONDON, Oct 16 (IFR) - The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has picked BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan to arrange a debut US dollar-denominated Eurobond, according to sources. The bond is likely to have a minimum 10 year tenor, according to a source. The banks declined to comment. Ethiopia hopes to issue a bond either by the end of this year or early 2015, finance minister Sufian Ahmed Beker told IFR earlier this month. Ethiopia is rated B1 by Moody's and B by both Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings. Source: www.reuters.com