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55 Days of Fasting ... 1 Fasika Weekend

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April 16th 2010
Melkam (zegeye) Fasika! / Happy (belated) Easter! I have numerous excuses for my two-week absence, but instead, I would rather pretend that I was giving everyone ample opportunity to catch up! These last two weeks, amongst other things of course, I have been working, as I mentioned in the last entry, on getting a blog set up to be linked to CPAR’s website. After days of network failures and f ... read more

Africa » Ethiopia

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Unique among African countries, the ancient Ethiopian monarchy maintained its freedom from colonial rule, with the exception of the 1936-41 Italian occupation during World War II. In 1974 a military junta, the Derg, deposed Emperor Haile SELASSIE (wh... ... read more