Word: ethiopia
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...help bring long-term relief to hunger-stricken regions of Ethiopia, Harvard students can give up their dinner in the dining hall in a fast planned for later this month...
...Harvard Hunger Action Committee (HHAC) and the Harvard-Radcliffe International Development Forum (HRIDF) hope to raise approximately $3800 from this campus-wide dining hall dinner fast slated for March 16. The money will help fund a $100,000 OXFAM America project in famine-plagued central Ethiopia, said HHAC co-president Douglas W. Marx...
Wilfred Thesiger was born in June 1910 in a mud building in Addis Ababa. His father was the British Minister to Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), and his mother, an Irish beauty, seems to have had a knack for prophetic understatement. "My mother," says Thesiger early in this autobiography, "always maintained that the first words I said were 'Go yay,' which meant 'Go away...
...tendency to kill and castrate strangers. On the staff of a British district commission in the Sudan, he was regularly called on to shoot cattle-killing lions. He did so on foot, sharing great dangers with villagers armed only with spears. During World War II he fought Italians in Ethiopia; in Libya he took part in raids on German encampments and communications as part of a jeep-mounted guerrilla unit...
...Africa as a whole. Dorkus K. Mamboleo '91 says a classmate asked her which part of the United States had a town called Kenya. And Ndiaye says fellow students have asked him, "Do you live in a hut?" and "Do your cousins look like the people on TV from Ethiopia...