By RiotGirl Chicagonow.com Exotic Coffee. Amazing and complex spice combinations. An Omnivore’s delight. Today, I travel to Ethiopia. Easy to do. Staying local to my neighborhood. WestridgeyEdgewatery Uptown in all of its Rogers Parkitude. Good eats to be had. Good coffee … read more
Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2015 now open – USD 150,000 in prizes for continent’s brightest innovators to accelerate Africa’s development With 2000 innovators from 48 countries entering in its first three years; IPA 2015 … read more
Aljazeera Local painters forgo experimentation to cater to growing number of foreign buyers by James Jeffrey ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Tesfaye Hiwet started visiting his homeland from the U.S. shortly after the 1991 revolution that brought down Ethiopia’s communist-inspired military dictatorship … read more
Style Having spent roughly half her life in the fashion biz, Liya Kebede has come a long way in the industry since leaving Ethiopia at the age of 18 to model in Paris. In the following decades, Kebede has established … read more
The Guardian By Kim Willsher in Paris Half of 1.2m bottles of Rift Valley wine are intended for export, with company planning to double production Women pick grapes at the Castel vineyard near the town of Ziway in Ethiopia. Photograph: … read more
By John Coyne Was this an accident or murder in Ethiopia during the dark days of the Creeping Coup? Even four decades later, the answer still matters. This novel–Long Ago and Far Away– opens in Westchester, New York, in 2008, … read more
Prweb ElliptiGO Inc., creators of the world’s first elliptical cycle, today announced a partnership with elite Ethiopian training camp, Yaya Village. Established by Joseph Kibur in 2009 and co-owned with double Olympic gold medalist, Haile Gebrselassie, Yaya Village is a … read more
By Teo Kermeliotis and Lucy Wamweya Former model tries her hand at design (CNN) – Making the jump from model to designer seemed like a natural choice for Hiwot Gashaw. Growing up in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, the young entrepreneur always … read more
By Joey Bunch The Denver Post The second Taste of Ethiopia Festival has a new day and place: Aug. 3 at Central Park in Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood. This year’s event joins Denver Days, Mayor Michael Hancock’s week-long tour of events across … read more
NBC News By Hasani Gittens An American video game executive and an Ethiopian tribesman team up to end a deadly ritual and save children’s lives. NBC’s Ann Curry reports. Ethiopia’s Omo Valley is one of the last African frontiers. It … read more