Kennenisa bans release of documentary film based on his life

The Ethiopian long-distance run superstar, Kennenisa Bekele has banned the release of a documentary film entitled “Love Keeps Me Running” based on his life story, according to the weekly Amharic Reporter.

Abiy Fekibelu, producer of the film disclosed that Kennenisa has banned the film after the production is finalized saying that its release [...]

‘Hummer’ for Abune Paulos?

His holiness Abune Paulos, patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church is going to be awarded the American made Hummer car being named “cleric of the millennium,” reported Addis Neger on Saturday December 30.

  

 According to sources of the newspaper, the committee established for the award is fundraising money from different member churches, NGOs and tycoons. [...]

A book box for every family

Michele Bachelet Chile’s president has worked out a plan to change her country’s reading culture. She has come up with a scheme to give 400,000 of the poorest families a maletin literario or a box of up to nine books, according to this week’s The Economist.

“Ask Chileans what they are reading, and the answer will [...]

A lot of missed calls calls in africa

how many of us are annoyed by redundent missed calls made to our phone or had a habit of doing so to request a call back ?
Andrew Heavens of Reuters who had been based in Addis Ababa reflects on the missed call culture in Africa in his article “phone credit low? africans go for beeping”
he [...]