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Addis Ababa: Manifestation on the Occasion of the International Year of the Child
20,000 Addis Ababa children gathered at the national stadium of the Ethiopian capital for a manifestation on occasion of the International Year of the Child. In the presence of head of state and government Mengistu Haile Mariam and more representa...
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People's Democratic Republic of Yemen: Children well cared for Happy children can be met everywhere in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen today. Some of these girls from Aden shown here festively dressed take part in a cultural pupils' pro...
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Ethiopia Defeats Ignorance — Geography Lesson
In 1974, the number of Ethiopian students who could not read or write was 93 per cent. But the government's program to educate them using television and radio has been successful. The number of currently studying young and adult students are incre...
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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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Ethiopia: Efforts for Better Grain Harvest
These farmers of an Ethiopian cooperative have not yet modern agricultural technology available. They bring the corn by hand. Nevertheless they strive for better grain harvests which is a major task in the current first year of the national revolu...
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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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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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