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Ethiopia imports 102,072 tonnes of sugar in 2007/08

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia imported 102,072 tonnes of sugar in 2007/08 to meet growing domestic demand while also exporting 21,700 tonnes of raw sugar to generate foreign currency, a government

Ethiopian film explores nation's recent violent past

VENICE, Sept 2 (Reuters) - A powerful new film chronicles the life of an Ethiopian intellectual who flees his country during the Marxist "red terror" in the 1980s, only to be viciously attacked in Ger

DIARY - East Africa

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Ethiopia celebrates as obelisk is unveiled in Axum

AXUM, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Ethiopians cheered on Thursday as a 1,700-year-old giant stone obelisk taken to Italy by fascist invaders in the 1930s was restored to its historic site

Explosion kills three in Ethiopian bar

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A blast at a bar in the Ethiopian capital has killed three and wounded 12 others on Wednesday, an eye witness told Reuters.

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