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: 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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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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Ethiopia: Housing Construction in Addis Ababa
Scaffold and cranes mark the face of the Ethiopian capital in many places between the boroughs Arat Kilo and Bihere Tsige. In the next few years, some 20 million dollars are planned to be spent on the growth of Addis Ababa — especially on flats a...
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Socialist Ethiopia: Volunteers Help With Maize Harvest
An Addis Ababa book-keeper, Meaza Mussie came 275 kilometres to help with the maize harvest in a state farm near Awasa. "Like most of us I am not used to this kind of work. But we hold that revolutionary slogans alone are of no help. Something has...
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Workers Support the Military Council
Snapshot during an anti-imperialist mass rally in Addis Ababa in March 1977 with 500,000 people participating: As a sign of confidence a representative of the Ethiopian farmers presents a spear to Colonel General Mengistu Haile-Mariam (left), Chai...
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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 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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Addis Ababa — Meeting Place of O. A. U. summit
This is a view of Haile Selassie Square in Addis Ababa with the Ethiopian Bank of Commerce in the background.
This year's summit conference of the Organisation of African Unity (O.A.U.) is taking place in the Ethiopian capital from 5 to 9 November...
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