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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Ethiopia

Ethiopia stories: 26 news summaries

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Ethiopia Stirs Up Coffee Industry

Fair trade to get a lot more fair if trademark approved

Nov 10, 07 3:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Ethiopia is trademarking its distinctive coffee crop, a move that could bring $88 million a year to the impoverished country, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Coffee connoisseurs happily pay up to $10 per pound for beans from Ethiopia’s Yirgacheffe region, but less than $1 of that goes to farmers... More »

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coffee • Ethiopia • branding • developing world

Gebrselassie Sets Record in Berlin Race

Shaves 29 secs off previous men's marathon best

Sep 30, 07 6:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie set a new world record at the Berlin marathon today, beating the previous record of close friend Paul Tergat by 29 seconds. Tergat called to congratulate his rival 10 minutes after he crossed the finish line. The champion’s response? “Sorry, Paul, try next year” reports... More »

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race • Berlin • Ethiopia • marathon • running • Gebrselassie • Record

Floods Devastate Africa

Deluge triggers humanitarian crisis

Sep 20, 07 3:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Several of Africa's poorest countries have been devastated by a catastrophic deluge of rain, washing away lives, communities and crops. As many as 18 of the normally driest countries in the world, from Senegal, Mauritania, Mali and Burkina Faso in the west, to Kenya, Sudan and Ethiopia in the east,... More »

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Africa • Kenya • Sudan • Ethiopia • flood • rain • natural disaster • Senegal

Lucy Debuts
in Houston

But dem bones ain't made for traveling,
say scientists

Aug 29, 07 5:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lucy kicks off her public debut  at the Houston Museum of Natural Science tomorrow amid controversy that the world's favorite human ancestor should never have left her home in Ethiopia. The public wants the chance to the 3.2 million-year-old remains, but scientists say Lucy's too fragile to travel. More »

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evolution • Ethiopia • Houston • fossil • human evolution • Lucy

Ethiopia Pushes for Somalia Pullout

UN calls refugee crisis worse than Darfur's; skirmishes continue

May 15, 07 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ethiopia wants its troops out of Somalia, where the UN says the refugee crisis is now worse than the situation in Darfur, the BBC reports. But a pullout now could spell disaster for the estimated 300,000 Somalis displaced by recent fighting between the Ethiopia-backed government and the Islamist resistance,... More »

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Somalia • Africa • United Nations • Ethiopia • aid • resistance • African Union • Mogadishu • refugee

Quickie Adoption for Angelina

Vietnamese officials deny special treatment

Mar 14, 07 2:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Vietnamese officials say the paperwork on Angelina Jolie's adoption is nearly complete—just days after it was submitted in early March. Vietnamese officials say their efficiency was spurred by the child's age and complete files and not by preferential treatment, but the speed up likely has a simpler explanation: anticipation... More »

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Angelina Jolie • Brad Pitt • adoption • Vietnam • families • Ethiopia • children • Cambodia

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