does anyone anything about ethiopia?
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I've been there. It is an interesting country. The official language is Amharic, but there are about 85 different languages spoken within the country. It is not unusual to need more than one interpreter to talk to someone. \n\nThe capital city is Addis Ababa. Most of the city is fairly primitive, with people living in shacks and cooking with wood or charcoal fires. The country is dangerous enough that many restaurants will search you with a metal detector before you can enter. Many stores like bookstores also will check you before you enter and as you leave. Large hotels will check under your car for bombs before you can enter and have metal detectors at the doors in most of the large hotels. Smaller hotels will not do this at all. Street vendors are very common, selling everything you can imagine, and beggars are common as well. Because of the war with Eritrea, Ethiopia has large numbers of wounded veterans that are missing limbs. It is not unusual to see people sleeping on the sidewalks at night. \n\nThere are some very luxurious hotels in Ethiopia, and the largest was built by an Arab sheik. I was told the hotel cost $180 million to build, but I cannot verify that. Here is a picture;\nhttp://www.starwoodhotels.com/luxury/search/hotel_detail.html?propertyID=149\nThis is a stark contrast to the very poor neighborhoods that surround it. The President's residence is in a compound surrounded by guards who will stop you if you try to take photographs. This is strictly forbidden. \n\nOutside of Addis, Ethiopia is a very undeveloped and wild place. Some smaller towns have hotels and modern accommodations, but many 'towns' are more like collections of dirt-floored shacks. I traveled toward Djibouti into the Great Rift Basin and spent several months near the Awash River. This area is populated by tribal people who live primarily by herding goats, cattle, and camels. They migrate as they must in order to find grass and live in small tents made of goat skins and sticks. There are several tribes in the area that are not friendly to one another. In fact, most males in this area over the age of about 12 carry an AK-47 rifle. They seldom use them as they have a hard time getting ammunition, but they do sometimes skirmish with neighboring tribes. These tribal natives also carry long knives shaped like a dagger and held in a sheath made from goatskin. \n\nThese tribal groups are Muslim, yet they follow very different customs from most Muslims. They do pray regularly and observe Ramadan. The women wear nothing above the waist, and the only way you can tell a married woman from a single woman is that she wears a small head cover. From what I observed the women do most the work taking care of the herds of animals. Other tribal groups in that area survive primarily by weaving mats from reeds and selling them to others. \n\nThe military arms are left over from the time when Ethiopia was a communist country and the Russians were supplying large numbers of arms. There are bombed out tanks still to be seen sitting along the roads. \n\nThe area where I was at in eastern Ethiopia had one school that went to 8th grade and was built by the French. The children did not have pencils and paper in any quantity and were constantly begging me for pencils. I left without any pencils or pens as I had given them all away to children who considered a mere pencil to be a wonderful present. If they do well enough in school up to 8th grade, they can go to Addis Ababa to attend high school, over 400 kilometers away. Most do not and from what I saw many children did not attend school at all.  I wanted to find a way to send school supplies to this area, but discovered it is almost impossible because there is no such thing as mail delivery in much of the country. There would be no way I could deliver a case of pencils and paper to that village without traveling back there myself. \n\nThe area has a large drug problem related to a plant called Chat that i
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go to www.africa.upenn.edu/org_Institutes/African_12088.html
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The CIA World Factbook is good for stats on any country.  The site for Eritrea is...\n\nhttp://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/er.html\n\nBest of luck!
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I am sponsoring a child in Ethiopia.  Most Ethiopians are Christians of the Orthodox variety.  Very, very similar to Catholic.
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i dunno.  the only country i can think of with small and skinny people is ethiopia.
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The ark is now in Ethiopia.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaliland
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www.affa.gov.au/foodinfo  Oz.\nwww.africa.upenn.edu/Cookbook/Ethiopia.html - 21k Ethiopia.\nHope it works.
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It'd be nice to know what country you were asking about.
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No, Ethiopia is an invention of the 20th Century, having been known as Abyssinia until the West sold Haille Selassie down the river, and allowed the fascist Italian government to usurp him. Before that, it was originally known as Nubia from which we take the term nubile.\nIt is not known for sure where the first Homo Sapiens ocurred, although it would have been around the NE of Africa, or the Middle East.
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Ethiopia's involvement in Somalia was at the urging of the united states.I believe this is  fool hardy. Ethiopia has no business getting involved in the affairs of Somalia especially when it can not put its own house in order.It is interesting that you did not mention that Eritrea is also involved.In the end this will become an extension of the Ethiopia- Eritrea conflict.the west is afraid that the Islamic courts will invite extremist to come to Somalia,but that is exactly what will happen if Ethiopia does not stop meddling.Ethiopia is too poor a country to go on these military adventures.
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Have you tried http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page they have info about anything.
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I found a couple of references to it.  Hope this helps.\n\nICT- 4D Training; Ethiopian MPs graduate\nBy Mercy Wambui, Communication Officer, ECA \n29 November 2004 \n\nThe second round of ICT training for 40 Ethiopian Members of Parliament concluded yesterday with a graduation ceremony at the Economic Commission for Africa's UN Conference Centre. Speaking at the ceremony, Ms. Aida Opoku-Mensah, Officer-in-Charge at the Development Information Services Division (DISD), congratulated the MPs, pointing to their commitment to attending the 3-month long training despite busy schedules with constituencies. \n\nhttp://www.uneca.org/eca_resources/news/112904disd_ict4d_trg_eth_mps.htm\n\nITC-4D - what is it?\nThe ICT-4D is being held in Hall 4 of the PalExpo (massively huge convention complex near the Geneva airport). It is the show and tell part of the WSIS with exhibits by NGOs, countries, small businesses & entrepreneurs as well as some manufacturers. In a way, it is the step-child of the WSIS. The intent is to focus attention on the ICT efforts being made in support of economic development in lesser developed countries. The ICT-4D is not well attended, most of the exhibits being visited by other exhibitors rather than non-participant visitors or WSIS participants. \n\nOddly, there is little public internet access despite the huge amount of internet connectivity in the hall. Why just yesterday I (Lena) got kicked out of the CERN exhibit where I had logged in to check email. Free public wireless was supposed to have been made available by CERN but has been down most of the time. Instead there is very expensive SWISSCOM wireless access - for a mere several hundred dollars US for the length of the show.\n\nGiven that one of the main themes of the ICT-4D is low cost access, it's ironic that it's essentially unavailable here!\n\nDecember 11, 2003 at 03:29 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) \n\nhttp://fonly.typepad.com/fonlyblog/2003/12/
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Ethiopia is 1,127,127 square kilometres (435,071 sq. mi) in size, and is the major portion of the Horn of Africa, which is the eastern-most part of the African landmass. Bordering Ethiopia is Sudan to the west, Djibouti and Eritrea to the north, Somalia to the east, and Kenya to the south. Within Ethiopia is a massive highland complex of mountains and dissected plateaus divided by the Great Rift Valley, which runs generally southwest to northeast and is surrounded by lowlands, steppes, or semidesert. The great diversity of terrain determines wide variations in climate, soils, natural vegetation, and settlement patterns. Elevation and geographic location produce three climatic zones: the cool zone above 2,400 meters (7,900 ft) where temperatures range from near freezing to 16°C (32°–61°F); the temperate zone at elevations of 1,500 to 2,400 meters (4,900—7,900 ft) with temperatures from 16°C to 30°C (61°–86°F); and the hot zone below 1,500 meters (4,900 ft) with both tropical and arid conditions and daytime temperatures ranging from 27°C to 50°C (81°–122°F). The normal rainy season is from mid-June to mid-September (longer in the southern highlands) preceded by intermittent showers from February or March; the remainder of the year is generally dry.\n\nEthiopia is an ecologically diverse country. Lake Tana in the north is the source of the Blue Nile. It also has a large number of endemic species, notably the Gelada Baboon, the Walia Ibex and the Ethiopian wolf (or Simien fox).
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yes wondemeye you will get credit for schooling in Ethiopia that is the reason why many students do their masters and PHD abroad.\nberta
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Hopefully it will go better than the drilling in Sudan, which led directly to the genocide. Ethiopia also has a recent history of ethnic and political genocide. That part of the world is extremely unstable, and oil wealth into a few hands might just push it over the edge again.
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Ask somebody in the east. May be an ugandan will be able to answer you algerians.