Word: ethiopia
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...tables woven from colored straw - are outside under the palm trees. Soft light is diffused through red and orange velvet umbrellas, and the air is filled with an exotic mix of frankincense, mosquito coils, popcorn and coffee. The dark brew is part of the spiritual and social life in Ethiopia, and patrons can order the coffee ceremony, a half-hour ritual where the beans are ground and roasted in front of you. "We make coffee to satisfy all the senses," says manager Foster Sanga. "You can see, smell, hear, touch and taste it." But it's the food that truly...
From her worldwide travels to various jobs, Robin M. Worth ’81 has never been one to shy away from new adventures.She has backpacked through Europe and Asia and has volunteered in rural Ethiopia at a school and health clinic. But these experiences have been marked by repeated returns to Harvard, a place that gave her opportunities this native Texan might not have had.“I was always aware of how different my life would have been had I not come to Harvard,” she says. Now back again as the director of international...
SOMALILAND, the most stable part of the Horn of Africa, declared independence from war-racked Somalia in 1991. After 15 years of relatively good government, it's getting some international recognition. Ethiopia just opened an embassy there...
...face of citizen resistance. Unfortunately, we are very, very far from solving the problem of populist reaction against change. Bob Ledoux Le Cannet, France The Nile's Bounty Re "The waters of life" [May 1]: as a retired U.N. and World Bank consultant who has worked in Egypt and Ethiopia, I found your story on the increasing cooperation between Egypt and its southern neighbors extremely interesting. You reported that Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, said, "While Egypt is taking the Nile water to transform the Sahara into something green, we in Ethiopia - which is the source...
...looking at geothermal and solar-power generation. "We run the risk of building these huge white elephants that benefit factories and cities but not the people who need [power]," he says. That is precisely what locals in Tis Abay, a town next to the Blue Nile Falls in Ethiopia, believe happened when a new power station was opened three years ago. Water from the Nile is now diverted away from the falls to generators, most of whose power is exported to the nearby regional capital and into the national power grid. The diversion of the river has reduced the once...