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Ethiopian ‘Apology over Textbook Blunders’

September 19, 2016TesfaNews19 Comments

By Emmanuel Igunza | for BBC Africa,, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education has apologized for “honest” mistakes contained in school textbooks, state-owned television has reported. The ministry had revealed that several text books published between 2004 and 2010 had wrongly defined boundaries of the country’s regional states.

Ethiopia: Anti-Tigrayan Revolt Spreads Across the Country

July 31, 2016July 31, 2016TesfaNews32 Comments

By The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Barely had the insurrection in Gondar subsided than Ethiopia’s government found itself facing other brushfires. Everywhere, the same resentment is being voiced over the stranglehold of Tigrays on government. Only on July 17 did the Federal Police and Ethiopian army, employing tear gas and firing heavy weaponry, managed to crush […]