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Legendary Australian obstetrician dies in Addis Ababa

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382240) • Rockingham, Australia 21 Mar 20

Australian woman, Catherine Hamlin (1924-2020), has died in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She was 96. With her husband, Dr Reginald Hamlin, she arrived in Ethiopia in 1959 on a three-year contract. Both were gynaecologists and...

catherine hamlin

obstetric fistula

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Ethiopia - All you need to know.

anwar abrar @anushady (549) • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 15 Sep 16

A guy asked me "Arent you from Ethiopia, that poor country?" I replayed - We are not poor but the only African nation never colonized because we defeated the Europeans (fascist Italy back then) - First African to win gold on the...

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Do you know something about Ethiopia (my country)?

anwar abrar @anushady (549) • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 15 Sep 16

Ethiopia is a country found on east of Africa. It has more than 80 million population. Write here if you ever heard something about Ethiopia before.

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Let's Talk About Clean Water or the Lack of it

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 10 Aug 16

Did you know that about 3.5 million people die each year because of drinking contaminated water? They have no access to clean water. In the USA and other advanced countries, a person just has to turn on the tap to have clean...

contaminated water supply

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Branded shoes, Ethiopia, Huajian Group

scheng1 @scheng1 (24649) • Singapore 7 Feb 16

Have you heard of Huajian Group? You probably do not. You probably admire the shoes made by Huajian Group and wish that you have the money to buy it. If you have heard of Coach, Nine West, Guess, Easy Spirit, Marco Polo, Enzo,...

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Are You Neglecting The Poor Among You?

Peter Abrahamson @petertheo (148) • South Africa 7 Nov 15

In my country, South Africa, poverty is evident when you see conditions under which many people are living. Jobs are hard to come by in these tough economic times and many people who had work have been laid off due to downsizing...

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Gog and Magog: Is the Present Situation in Russia the Beginning of the End?

davebrown64 @davebrown64 (443) • United States 13 Aug 08

Gog and Magog, what are they? According to the Bible, especially in Ezekiel Chapter's 38 and 39, the explanation is that Arab Armies (especially those of Persia, Ethiopia and Libya) will move on Israel with a large, mobile Army...

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Where would you really like to photograph?

Jim @jayperiod (870) • United States 6 Feb 07

I noticed some pictures on here from Australia and read an article over the weekend on a photo trip to Ethiopia and that got me to thinking; where would you really love to go just to photograph? For me, India would be really...

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Is Somalia another Iraq? according to bush it seems so !

deepjaju @deepjaju (31) • India 11 Jan 07

Somalians, a majority of muslims and the Ethiopians, a majority of christains are having differences and have been in war for some time now with each other ! US on the other hand suspect that the Somalians house top al-qaeda...

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Ethiopia is teaching the rest of the FREE WORLD how to deal with terrorists

cliffcliff @cliffcliff (1350) • United States 29 Dec 06

we could learn a few lessons from them. Not that i like war, but Ethiopia is not taking any opinion polls on how to kill islamo-terrorists. They went into Somalia and laid many a cowardly islamist to rest. And not that the leader...

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Ethiopians blow away over 1000 islamo-terrorists lasst 48 hours!

cliffcliff @cliffcliff (1350) • United States 28 Dec 06

The Ethiopian government finally got tired of all the threats by the islamists.. The gov sent out air gunships and began to mow them down.The terrorists vowed to fight to death, but as their nimbers began to dwindle, they quickly...

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National Sovereinty!

nickventere @nickventere (1420) • Zambia 23 Dec 06

Ethiopia is now meddling in the affairs of neighbouring Somalia. Justification? None sensible, but just because it has to do with Islamists take control of Somalia. But what has Ethiopia got to do with it? What happened to...

national sovereinty

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Ethiopia

bb00100bb @bb00100bb (193) • China 5 Dec 06

Much of the fascination of Ethiopia lies in its myriad historical sites, the obelisks and stele of Axum, the churches and coptic monasteries in the Tigre, in the Lake Tana isles and in the Lalibela: the African Jerusalem with its...

AREN'T AFRICAN MEN THE BEST

njn351 @njn351 (1) • Kenya 2 Oct 06

African men are not just athletic. They are more romantic and committed

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