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Second grade students in Sidama, Zone in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' State of Ethiopia, are learning to read with the revised curriculum developed by USAID and the Ministry of Education to improve reading for 15 million children. (Robert Sauers, USAID Ethiopia) If a given student does not know the subject matter he/she is being taught only because the course is offered in his/her non-mother tongue, what other reasons could be mentioned than this to put quality education in jeopardy? And what other reason is there to turn to for the academic failure of the student if not the medium of instruction that is alien to the learner? Unless the mother tongue, that is used in the teaching-learning process, is commonly understood both by the teacher and the learner, how can quality education be attained? This writer is in the opinion, no matter how the school environment is crammed with best teaching learning equipment and no matter how the school is pra

I was quite surprised to find a place where they brew their own beer [Bera] out of Addis!!! I am a big fan of beer and bera is one of the finest beer I had. If you visit Awassa, you should visit this place. It is located around Hawassa-Menaheria which is a few hundred meters from the old Lewi.

ABSTRACT Measuring the impact of advertisement on consumers’ brand preference is very essential for every marketer. If advertisement does not create any positive change in consumers’ brand preference, all resources such as money, time, and effort spent on advertisement will be lost in vain. Most marketers use advertisement as a tool to attract substantially new customers and to retain the existing ones. Full Text

CNN Ethiopia is Africa's biggest coffee producer and ranks fifth globally. Last year it exported 190,000 tonnes of coffee beans, earning around $700 million, and in 2016 Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa will host the 4th World Coffee Conference, a high-level...   Ethiopia is Africa's biggest coffee producer and ranks fifth globally. Last year it exported 190,000 tonnes of coffee beans, earning around $700 million, and in 2016 Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa will host the 4th World Coffee Conference, a high-level... by Milena Veselinovic for CNN (CNN) -- As he tended to his goats one afternoon in the Ethiopian highlands some 12 centuries ago, a herder named Kaldi noticed that his bleating charges seemed energized after chewing mysterious red berries. Intrigued by the strange reaction, Kaldi took the berries to a local monastery, where the monks promptly threw them in the fire disapproving of their apparently magical attributes. As the berries

The Former Ministry of Education H/E Ambassador Dr. Genet Zewdie, the current Ambassador of Ethiopia in India will have a public lecture on "Gender and Higher Education"  at Main Campus Graduation Hall, Hawassa University. http://www.hu.edu.et/hu/index.php/news/346-public-lecture-in-hu.html