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		<title>I didn&#8217;t visit you for I was sick</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;One long ailing man who wished to be visited by his friends and relatives spent the time of his sickness alone without any visitor until he recovered. Then after, he went to every of his friends and relatives with a gift of vegetables satirically saying, &#8216;I didn&#8217;t visit you for I was sick&#8217;&#8221; Limenih Taddese [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abiy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=671941&amp;post=138&amp;subd=abiy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Frenchs’ guarding language from all ills</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most political leaders struggle to speak fluently in a foreign tongue. Only the exceptional manage to mangle their own. Step forward France’s president Nickolas Sarkozy. Last year in a written parliamentary question, Francois Loncle, an opposition deputy, said the president “mistreated” the French language with his endless grammatical slips and “vulgar expressions”. He urged the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abiy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=671941&amp;post=134&amp;subd=abiy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bewketu pens a new novel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 11:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bewketu Seyoum, the renowned author and poet who achieved a wide acceptance and recognition to be a celebrated literary star of the time has released a new novel entitled “Megbatna Mewtat: Keastenagaju Mastawosha Yetekenechebe” (In and Out: Excerpts from the Waiter’s notebook.) Set in a café called Beethoven in a German cultural instititute, the novel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abiy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=671941&amp;post=129&amp;subd=abiy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethiopia in Whitman&#8217;s pen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was fascinating to me to learn the great American literary heavy weight Walt Whitman has poetry on Ethiopia. I couldn’t wait to post and share it. Ethiopia Saluting the Colors                                                   (Walt Whitman) WHO are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white and turban’d head, and bare bony feet? Why, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abiy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=671941&amp;post=123&amp;subd=abiy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teedy’s prison term reduced</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The six year sentence ruled on Teddy Afro for the alleged crime he committed is reduce to two years on appeal. In consideration of the time he already served, he could be free very shortly. Despite holding the guilty verdict, the judge Dagne Melaku reduced the sentence from six years to two on grounds that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abiy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=671941&amp;post=120&amp;subd=abiy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We respect every religion equally impartially:HIM Hailesilassie I</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a speech HIM Hailesilassie I gave on October 11, 1963 during his visit of the mosque in Asmara, Eritrea following the welcoming speech by the head of the mosque Sheikh Ibrahim Oumar Muktar. I thought it would invite further reflections on the current Islam-Christian issue. The speech is from the 2nd volume of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abiy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=671941&amp;post=113&amp;subd=abiy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In rescuing Limenih</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early days of the EPRDF government, one of the few TV entertainment shows was the weekly 120. There were program hosts and artists who bought the spirit of entertainment and inspiration to the then environment in which air was congested with fear and insecurity following the government change. Among these prominent artists Alebachew [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abiy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=671941&amp;post=111&amp;subd=abiy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Even on Bloody Feet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The November 10 issue of Newsweek magazine has come up with an article by the legendary Haile Gebresilsie entitled, Even on Bloody Feet. I couldn’t surmise whether Haile himself wrote the article or some consultant shaped Haile’s narration into a well-written magazine article. I don’t often come across an African writer on TIME.  And I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abiy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=671941&amp;post=109&amp;subd=abiy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teddy’s first court defense-‘Truth and dawn gets clear eventually’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the celebration of the Ethiopian New Year Teddy Afro’s song “ Abebayosh” was heard everywhere. Out of every radio station, taxi and music shop, the song reverberated with its resonating beats reminding everyone of the sullen young musician in prison. “They better not remind us,” was the phrase that many utter sympathetically while anticipating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abiy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=671941&amp;post=100&amp;subd=abiy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OLF leaders coming to Addis</title>
		<link>http://abiy.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/olf-leaders-coming-to-addis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OLF (Oromo Liberation Front) leaders; Lencho Leta, Ababiya Jabir and Dima Negewo will come to Addis soon, according to Awaramba Times, a weekly Amharic.  The Arbitration process spearheaded by Professor Efrem Yishak has extended its delegation to arbitrating OLF, that has long been a rival to established Ethiopian governments and EPRDF after its successful role [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abiy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=671941&amp;post=96&amp;subd=abiy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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