My work deciding which starving Ethiopian kids to save sparked Live Aid – 40 years on one of them paid ultimate tribute
IT is 40 years since Dame Claire Bertschinger was a nurse on the front line of the devastating famine in Ethiopia, deciding which starving children to save. But the torment of not being able to ...
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How a cotton dress from her childhood impacted one woman's life
A new NPR series, "Throw It Back," explores how the objects we love as kids shape our worldview as adults. The series begins with the story of Mahlet Assefa and her cotton dress.
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Aid workers clear unexploded bombs in Tigray which are maiming children
Aid workers in northern Ethiopia are clearing unexploded bombs left from the two-year civil war in the Tigray region.
Michael Buerk: Huw Edwards could be amusingly nasty about colleagues – I’d always wonder what he was saying about me
If you track down Michael Buerk’s game-changing dispatch from Korem on the famine in northern Ethiopia, which first aired 40 ...
Forty years ago, a BBC news report shook the world – and kickstarted white saviourism
By October 1984, drought and conflict in a remote part of northern Ethiopia had left millions on the brink of starvation, ...
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Ethiopia: Nuer People Have a Sacred Connection to Birds - It Can Guide Conservation in Ethiopia and South Sudan
Analysis - The Nuer are a large pastoralist community living in western Ethiopia and South Sudan in east Africa. They rely on livestock keeping and have special beliefs and customs about how to live ...
Alemeda: the alt-pop maverick putting East Africa on the map
Ethiopian-Sudanese singer-songwriter and TDE signee Alemeda aspires to become her nations’ first international pop star ...
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UMD students raise money to fund school restorations in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
Event attendees danced to traditional Tigrayan music and wore cultural attire such as the Habesha kemis, a traditional ...