Word: gondar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Yafa Bogalay, 28, is happy with the trade-off. Her first life ended in 1981, when she fled to Israel after Ethiopian government troops raided her village school in the Gondar province, hauling away suspected rebels. "I cried and cried when I first got here," she says. Now she works at a child-care center in Ashdod and refuses to teach her three children her native language. "I don't want to even think about Ethiopia," she says. "There was too much suffering." Her sole indulgence in the past is listening to Ethiopian music on her tape player, which offers...
...talks ended in stalemate last November without any agreement for the movement of food to drought-stricken areas. To the south in Tigre, two rebel armies have managed to drive out all troops and representatives of the civilian government. Since August the rebels have been pressing an offensive through Gondar and Wollo provinces, seizing towns within 85 miles of the capital, Addis Ababa...
...racism is what Israeli leaders have been accused of for failing to take steps sooner on behalf of these black Jews. The total number of Falashas has dwindled from several hundred thousand at the beginning of the century to some 25,000, scattered mostly throughout Ethiopia's remote northwestern Gondar province. While some of this decline can be attributed to absorption by the country's predominantly Ethiopic Christian culture or to inadequate health care, many may also have perished in pogroms. Since 1975, some 10,000 Ethiopian Jews have arrived in Israel, 3,000 of them as the result...
...northwestern state of Rajasthan (pop. 34.2 million) last spring; those who stayed are often forced to sell their cattle for less than $1 a head or to smuggle them across the border into Muslim Pakistan, where they may fetch $50. In Ethiopia's rugged mountainous region of Gondar, 200 people have been fleeing across the border into Sudan each...
ETHIOPIA. The long lines of gaunt, potbellied children with matchstick limbs are dispiritingly familiar. During the 1973 drought, 200,000 Ethiopians died; this year's disaster is even more pervasive. Gondar province, once known as Ethiopia's grain basket, has become a shriveled wasteland. Where rain has fallen, there are no seeds to plant; where it has not, there is no wood for building, and nothing but straw and dung for fuel. In addition, the remoteness of the area makes communication difficult and the provision of supplies almost impossible. In some camps refugees must either wait 36 hours...