Measures Taken to Overcome Illiteracy
Ethiopia has now started training adults to read and write, in order to overcome illiteracy. These Ethiopian women are studying in the alphabetization class in Addis Ababa, and around 20,000 voluntary teachers all over the country conduct these cl...
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Socialist Ethiopia: New Fair-ground
A new fair-ground was opened in Addis Ababa, capital of Socialist Ethiopia, on the occasion of a national trade show at the end of 1982.
On September 12th, 1983, it will be nine years since the feudal-capitalist regime was abolished and the "Provi...
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Ethiopia: Struggle Against Illiteracy
These children from the Kebele 23/10, one of the almost 300 residential districts in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, wait for the beginning of the lesson. About 1,500 girls and boys attend this school which is a tin hut for the time being. Less...
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Jewel of Wadi Dhar
The "House on the Stone" is one of the remarkable architectonic rarities to be admired in the Yemen Arab Republic. Situated in Wadi Dhar region near the capital of Sana, it is looked upon as a lasting testimony to Yemen architecture of earlier cen...
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Ethiopia: Cement Works New Mugher
Built with the help of the GDR and Cuba, Ethiopia's biggest cement works, New Mugher, will soon be completed. Engineer Peter Urban (l.) from the GDR instructs his Ethiopian colleagues in the operation of the switching station.
Still a few years ag...
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Help for Ethiopia's Drought-stricken Regions
Many countries are now coming forward to help poverty-stricken Ethiopia, where there has been no rain in years. The "Mittenwalde", —the ship carrying food, medicine, tents, blankets and 50 lorries— departed for the Red Sea port of Assab from Rosto...
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Help for Ethiopia's Drought-stricken Regions
Providing relief for the drought-stricken Ethiopia is still continued. The relief and rehabilitation centres of Ethiopian government are situated in Nazareth, south of Addis Ababa. These depots receive 100,000 tons of food daily, and medicine is a...
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Storing Grains in Nazareth
There are sacks of grains among the relief sent to hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians, who are hunger-stricken due to the severe four-year drought. These labourers are moving swiftly to store those sacks of grains in a storage unit in Nazareth, A...
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Ethiopia: Cement Works New Mugher
Built with the help of the GDR and Cuba, Ethiopia's biggest cement works, New Mugher, will take up production soon.
New Mugher has become a symbol in Ethiopia, not only for the efforts to develop an own industrial basis, but for successful economi...
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