ETHIOPIAN Woman leaves Amharic note before committing suicide

AN ETHIOPIAN housemaid left a handwritten note claiming she was sick and dying before hanging herself from a palm tree in Hamad Town.
Buzunesh Zarihun Tadesse was discovered by her sponsor at around 10pm on Monday.
Police later found the note in the 26-year-old's room written in Amharic (an Ethiopian dialect).
"The maid hanged herself on a palm tree using a piece of cloth," said Ethiopian community member G W Demmelash, who translated the note for the police.
"The incident took place at 10pm but her sponsor claims they tried to save her when they heard her screams.
"She came to Bahrain only two months ago to work as a housemaid for a Bahraini employer."
Mr Demmelash said the note was addressed to Natu Zarihun Tadesse and said he could take whatever she had.

Israel seeks to treat Ethiopian boy mauled by hyena

(JTA) — Israeli officials joined international efforts to save an 8-year-old boy who was mauled by a wild hyena in Ethiopia.
Contributions are being collected so Abdul Razek can be brought to the Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya.
Bedouin-Israeli diplomat Ismail Khaldi and Israel’s ambassador to Ethiopia, Belaynesh Zevadia, are spearheading the campaign.
Five months ago, the hyena attacked Abdul’s village, killing five and injuring 15. Abdul suffered severe head, scalp and eye injuries, and lost one of his ears.

Ethiopia's big Nile dam is compared to Hoover Dam

The book, a history of Hoover Dam, fell from the dashboard as Simegnew Bekele drove through the rugged mountains where the engineer is leading construction work on Ethiopia's massive Nile River dam.
"This book," he said, picking it up, "I am reading it now ... It's a fascinating story. This dam too (has) a history one day someone will write about."
Simegnew's sentiment illustrated the great expectations of a dam that has raised tensions between this Horn of Africa nation and Egypt, which is concerned the ongoing project will diminish its share of Nile River waters. Reading the book, a gift from Ethiopians he met in New York recently, the engineer has come to see similarities between the Ethiopian dam-in-progress and Hoover Dam, the Great Depression-era project that in its time became an icon of American enterprise under difficult economic conditions.

Ethiopia to buy former Indian Air Force Su-30Ks from Russia

New 'Flankers' mooted for #Ethiopia are the former Indian Air Force Su-30Ks, 18 in all.

(DVO) - 18 Su-30K fighter jets that India returned to Russia, probably will not be sold to Vietnam, but instead is Ethiopia.

Deputy Group Director arms exporter Rosoboronexport Alexander Mikheyev said that Russia is negotiating supply 18 Su-30K fighters to Ethiopia.

Number 18 multipurpose fighters were returned to India to replace the Russian fighter Su-30MKI is newer.

"We are in consultation with Ethiopia for the supply of the fighter. They have proposed a variant to modernize, enhance combat capability as well as the specification and provide additional tactics the rocket - to - land / sea more advanced, "said Mikheyev said.

Letter from Ethiopia: Special brew

An invitation to join in an Ethiopian coffee ceremony is considered a mark of friendship and respect. Photograph: Karel Prinsloo/AP

In a nation with dozens of ethnic groups and languages, the revered coffee ceremony remains a constant for all to savour
In the scorching Danakil desert, the Afar people are known to file their front teeth to a point in the belief it is attractive. The Mursi of the southern lowlands slit their lips and ear lobes and fill the opening with clay or wooden discs. In the central highlands the devout staff-wielding Amhara and Tigrean Orthodox Christians harvest teff on small plots, while the nomadic camel-herding Somali Muslims ply the southern deserts. With more than 70 ethnic groups and over 80 different languages, it is no surprise that it is difficult to find common ground throughout the nation.

Ethiopian Air clinches record profit despite temporary grounding of new Boeing 787s: CEO

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia –  The chief executive of Ethiopian Airlines says that his company has pocketed a record profit despite the temporary grounding of its Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes.
Tewolde Gebremariam told The Associated Press Monday that his company is expecting a record profit with 20 to 25 percent growth in revenue and number of passengers.
He said Ethiopian Air would have been even more profitable, if it had not been for the grounding of its four 787 planes for more than three months. In January the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration grounded the aircraft after incidents with smoldering batteries on two different planes.
Ethiopian Air is seeking to be compensated by Boeing and has already notified the airplane manufacturer of the financial loss it incurred due to the grounding, the CEO said.

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‘Life Happens’ for Ethiopian-Israeli Singer Ester Rada

When the famine struck Ethiopia in 1983, Ester Rada’s parents were forced to flee.
They traveled by foot to Sudan, only to find themselves packed into a dangerous refugee camp. But the couple managed to get out because of their religion.
The Rada’s were part a group of Ethiopian Jews who were airlifted out of Sudan in 1984 by the Israeli government. It was called Operation Moses.