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Ethiopia: Largest Cement Factory
A joint building project Ethiopia-GDR-Cuba, Ethiopia's largest cement works is under construction at New Mugher situated some 100 kilometres away from Addis Ababa capital. The annual production capacity is planned to amount to 300,000 tons. Thus, ...
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Ethiopia: Lessons in Polytechnics
Imparting craftmen's abilities to pupils - like sewing, treating wood and also housekeeping - are included in the teaching programme of the 12th-form secondary school at Awasa, capital of the Ethiopian administrative region of Sidamo. Until 1990, ...
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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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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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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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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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Modernized Port of Aden - Yemen
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen: Port of Aden modernized Modernization works in the port of Aden, capital of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, are planned to be finished by the end of this decade. At present, nearly all ships must ...
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Population Progressively Overcomes Illiteracy
455 Ethiopians at the age between 15 and 75 learn to read and write at the "Hizbawi-Serawit School of Addis Ababa at present. Some 5.5 million people wanted to participate in the 2nd alphabetization phase, which began in the end of 1979. Lessons a...
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Tens of thousands of residents of Addis Ababa and delegations from 14 administrative regions had demonstrated across the Revolution Square for several hours on September 12. The impressive manifestation was a climax of the festivities on the occas...
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