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Items by Seleshi Tessema
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Former Ethiopian military officer reveals plot to kill Mandela during military training
Sixty years after Nelson Mandela was trained in guerilla warfare in Ethiopia, a former military officer who acted as his security guard said there had been an attempt to kill the South African anti-apartheid icon during the training. On the eve of International Nelson Mandela Day, which is being observed...
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Ethiopia: Dam dispute stokes anti-Egypt feelings
For the last 12 years, around four days a week, when the light appears over the skies of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, Tsehay Wulo, 55, ascends to Entoto, a forested mountain north of the capital. Throughout the week, hundreds of impoverished young and old women roam the eucalyptus forest...
