Ethiopia's ski hopes are on a roll (NBC Olympics)
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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CRMS graduate blazes Winter Olympic ski trail, for Ethiopia (Aspen Daily News)
On the streets of Ethiopia’s capital city, the blur of a lithe, dreadlocked figure cruising by on roller skis had become unusually common in recent days. That blur was Robel Teklemariam, Ethiopia’s one-man cross-country ski team, training in the desert sun for the Winter Olympics, where he’ll represent his country for a second time. read more
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Somalia : Ethiopian Officials Meet With TFG Officials in Bakol Region (AllAfrica.com)
It is unclear what exactly have been discussed in the meeting of the officials by both sides of the Ethiopian and Somali government officials who were there though reports from the locals say that the two sides had talked more on the security of Bay and Bakol regions in southern Somalia and also how the troops would continue to their duties that they had been trained in the Somali region under ...
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Witnesses say Ethiopian troops back in Somalia (Press TV)
Heavily-armed Ethiopian vehicles have reportedly crossed into south central Somalia, seizing the family of a man with Al-Shabab links.
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Ethiopia gets Microsoft software in Amharic (AsiaOne)
ADDIS ABABA - US software giant Microsoft has launched Windows Vista in Amharic, the first operating system in the national language of Ethiopia, the official news agency said Saturday.
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Ethiopian troops enter Somali towns (Independent Online)
Ethiopian troops in armoured vehicles have crossed into two border towns in southern Somalia and seized the family of a man with links to al Shabaab insurgents.
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Ethiopian troops cross into two Somali towns-locals (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters * Residents say troops seeking man linked to insurgents * Say troops seize family of man they sought By Mohamed Ahmed and Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Ethiopian troops in armoured ...
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Ethiopian jet's black box found (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Search teams retrieved a flight recorder belonging to an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed off the coast of Lebanon last month killing all 90 people aboard, the Lebanese Transport Minister said.
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Ethiopia law forces journalists to reveal sources (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Ethiopia's new anti-terror law strips journalists of the right to protect the identity of their sources, a top official said in a statement carried Saturday by the national news agency ENA.
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Ethiopia : Putting Lipstick on a Pig, Ethiopian Style (AllAfrica.com)
Last week, there was a great deal of teeth-gnashing, knuckle-cracking and gut-wrenching by Ethiopia's dictators over Human Rights Watch's (HRW) 2010 report. The dictators belched out much sound and fury that signified nothing.
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