Defar and Vlasic top impressive cast in Stockholm
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The organisers of Wednesday’s GE Galan in Stockholm couldn't have wished for a better promotion than that provided on Saturday in Germany by Blanka Vlasic and Meseret Defar.
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Ethiopia's Harar casts spell
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In his teens, Arthur Rimbaud wrote a hundred pages of perfect poems and fascinated Paris with his talent and debauchery. In 1874, aged 20, he stopped writing.
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Tewodros Teshome At The Pan African Film Festival
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Tewodros Teshome is an Ethiopian film maker, writer, actor, director and owner of Sevastopol Cinema. He will have a screening of his movie Qey Sihtet (red Mistake) at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles. Tewodros’s work includes Kezkaza Wolafen (Cold Flame). Fro more info. go to http://www.paff.org/2010/01/red-mistake/
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Dibaba falls short in world record bid at Reebok Boston Indoor Games
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DOUBLE Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba fell short of regaining her world indoor 5000m record at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games on February 6 but the Ethiopian set a world-leading mark of 14:44.53, which has only ever been bettered by three other athletes.
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No snow but Ethiopia's ski hope is on a roll
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Ethiopia's only Olympic skier wheels down a suburban Addis Ababa street on his roller skis, expertly weaving around six donkeys and drawing stares from locals more used to watching runners train.
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France Telecom wins bid to reform Ethiopia Telecom
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France Telecom, the French state owned telecommunication provider, has been selected to manage Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation (ETC), Ethiopia’s state-owned telecoms provider, after beating South African and Indian bids, a government official has disclosed.
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Jacque's Tati Film Festival
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The restored version of Jacques Tati’s film, Mr Hulot’s Holiday, is pursuing its worldwide tour of film festivals and retrospectives. On February 6, after Cannes, Paris, Moscow, New York and Hong Kong, among others, the 1953 film will open a Tati retrospective in Addis Ababa with an exceptional Concert with “Tati’opique Band”, coordinated by Girum Mezmur and lead by Girum Gizaw. They will revisit Jacques Tati’s soundtracks, together with a visual cine-mix mixed by French audiovisual artist VJ Alexandre Elkouby.
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$39m for crashed aircraft, victims’ compensation unclear
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ACE Global Markets, a British insurance company, is expected to pay 39 million dollars in compensation for the crash of Ethiopian airlines flight 409, a Boeing 737-800, off the coast of Beirut.
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Enjoying life at the top-end in Addis Ababa
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Addis Ababa. An attractive name, isn’t it? It means “new flower”, so I’m told, in Amharic.
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