Ethiopia Global Health Issues
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Ancient City of Ethiopia - A New Centre of Tourism?
Over a period of millennium Harar city in Ethiopia has been a centre of Islamic faith with severe four-metre walls, surrounding the ancient mosques and narrow streets twining among the houses. Nowadays the authorities of Ethiopia hope to turn Harar into a centre of tourism. «Tourism is the future for Harar» - Murat Abdulhadi, the regional manager noted. UNESSO named Harar the world heritage last year, and thus approached it to such cultural obje Read More... -
The Ethiopian Millennium - The African Millennium
Ethiopia having its own ancient calendar and clock that it still uses, it celebrates it's new year every year on the 11th September and every four year on the 12 September because of leap year. Exceptionally this year, Ethiopia will celebrate it's millennium on the 12th, September 2007, 7 years after the rest of the world. This is how the difference in calendar happened: The Ethiopian calendar: The calendars of the entire world are based on th Read More... -
Ethiopian Relegious Festivals
Ethiopian Meskel Festival (The Finding of the True Cross) Meskel is celebrated in Ethiopia by dancing, feasting, and lighting a massive bonfire known in Ethiopian tradition as "Damera". Meskel commemorates the finding of the True Cross in the fourth century when Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, discovered the True Cross on which Christ was crucified. The feast is celebrated in Ethiopia on September 17 Ethiopian calendar (Septembe Read More...
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