trading posts along Somalia’s Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean coasts; Mogadishu began its existence as a trading station. During the 15th and 16th cent.‚ Somali warriors regularly joined the armies of the Muslim sultanates in their battles with Christian Ethiopia. British‚ French‚ and Italian imperialism all played an active role in the region in the 19th cent. Great Britain’s concern with the area was largely to safeguard trade links with its Aden colony (founded 1839)‚ which depended especially on mutton
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Approximately 26‚000 boys‚ during the late 1980’s‚ fled the southern part of Sudan in an effort to escape the violence that had consumed their country. With such an enormous amount of refugees fleeing Sudan‚ it was described as an “exodus of biblical proportions”(Corbett‚ 2001). These refugees were dubbed “The Lost Boy” due to the many similarities they had with the Peter Pan’s followers in the story Neverland. Like the fictional characters in the story‚ most of these boys‚ whose ages were all below
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citizens who opposed the Derg. As a result of Mengistu’s Red Terror Movement‚ Ethiopia had suffered irreversible damage to its economy‚ experienced a country wide famine‚ and thousands of its citizens had been slaughtered. Mengistu’s terror was primarily shaped by Communism; Mengistu’s socialist ideas‚ alliances with the Soviet Union‚ and radical principles gave the Ethiopian Red Terror a Soviet character that made Ethiopia a figurative part of the Communist bloc. II. Background Our project is about
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Recently a conflict erupted between Egypt and Ethiopia as Egypt rejects Ethiopian project ’ Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam’ which is going to be built on the Nile River. The Nile flows through the north-eastern part of Africa. The source of the Nile is Lake Victoria and its mouth is in the Mediterranean Sea. As an international river the Nile passes through many countries‚ it passes through: Egypt‚ Sudan‚ South Sudan‚ Ethiopia‚ Kenya‚ Eretria‚ Tanzania‚ Uganda‚ Rwanda‚ Republic of the Congo and
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Handloom Clusters in Ethiopia A Research Report Presented to the Graduate School of Business Leadership University of South Africa In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the DEGREE OF MASTER IN BUSINESS LEADERSHIP By HK HAILU Student No. 71769064 Study Leader Professor Philip AE Serumaga-Zake Addis Ababa‚ Ethiopia December 20‚ 2010 i Abstract: Taking the Gullele handlooms cluster development intervention program in Ethiopia as a case study‚ this
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The invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 is actually preceded by another symbolic event of historical import in the epic memory of Pan-African Nationalism known as the Battle of Adowa� (1896).� This latter event was the armed rejection of imperial Italy�s initial encroachment on Ethiopia.� Italy�s actions‚ at that time‚ were reflective of the 1884-85 Berlin Conference‚ the so-called‚ �Scramble for Africa� conference.�The conference produced documented commitment to the cooperative pursuit of Africa�s exploitation
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CURRICULUM VITAE (CV) 1. Personal Description ❖ Name ------------------------- Dessie Ewnetu Jenberie ❖ Sex: - -------------------------- Male ❖ Place of Birth ----------------- Merawi‚ Amhara‚ Ethiopia ❖ Date of birth ----------------- December 05/1982 E.C ❖ Marital Status ---------------- single ❖ Nationality: --------------------Ethiopian ❖ Current Address-------------- Merawi Addresses:
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Socioeconomic effects on farmers in a volatile Ethiopian coffee market and the promise of the Fair Trade movement Coffee and Ethiopia have shared a lengthy and highly tumultuous relationship. According to some‚ their history dates back to the fifteenth century‚ but it is widely acknowledged that extensive trade didn’t begin until the late eighteenth century (Aregay 1988‚ 19). As world coffee consumption skyrocketed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries‚ Ethiopia’s economy grew increasingly
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the United States and Israel: A Preliminary Comparison Steven Kaplan POLS 2280 Dr. Jeff DeWitt September 17‚ 2014 Kaplan‚ Steven. 2010. “Ethiopian Immigrants in the United States and Israel: A Preliminary Comparison.” International Journal of Ethiopia Studies 5:71-92 Most of the Ethiopian immigrants have settled in the US and Israel. In examining more about the immigrants‚ it seems that there are many differences among the two. In order to break down these differences Steven Kaplan has provided
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Introduction 1.1. Background of the study Some oral traditions claim that khat originated from Yemen‚ however the literature indicates that khat originated from Ethiopia‚ specifically in Hararge with a gradual expansion to different parts of Ethiopia‚ Yemen and other parts of the world as cited by Huffnagel in1961 (Dechassa ‚2001). In Ethiopia khat is an important and potentially lucrative cash crop. The employment opportunity created through the cultivation of khat is very high in that large numbers
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