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Feb 29, 2020
Ethiopia marathon runner Yonas Kinde aims for spot on Refugee Olympic Team
A runner who fled Ethiopia nearly a decade ago is preparing for Sunday's Tokyo Marathon with hopes of returning to Japan as a member of the Refugee Olympic Team.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 3, 2020
Somalia declares locust plague emergency, appeals for funding
Somalia declared the worst desert locust invasion in a quarter-century a national emergency that's posing a major threat to an already fragile food situation.
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WORLD
Feb 2, 2020
Ethiopians demand action over kidnapping of students amid simmering ethnic violence
Several thousand protesters took to the streets in Ethiopian cities this past week, demanding Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed do more to tackle simmering ethnic violence following the kidnapping of a group of university students.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 30, 2020
African locust invasions believed triggered by climate change
Climate change may be powering the swarms of desert locusts that have invaded eastern Africa, ravaging crops, decimating pasture and deepening a hunger crisis, locust and climate experts said.
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WORLD
Jan 2, 2020
Africa starts 2020 battling extremism, Ebola and hunger
A tragic airline crash with far-reaching consequences, cataclysmic cyclones that may be a harbinger of the future, the death of an African icon and a new leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize. These African stories captured the world's attention in 2019 — and look to influence events on the continent in 2020.
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WORLD
Nov 7, 2019
Hundred of thousands displaced by floods in East Africa
Heavy rains and floods have killed more than 50 people and forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes across East Africa as researchers warn warming oceans are causing unpredictable weather patterns in the region.
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BUSINESS
Oct 29, 2019
'We know we made mistakes' on 737 Max, Boeing CEO set to tell Congress
Boeing Co. Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg will acknowledge on Tuesday that the aircraft manufacturer made mistakes, as he appears at a congressional hearing on two 737 Max crashes that killed 346 people, according to written testimony made public on Monday.
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WORLD
Jun 27, 2019
'Dozens' killed in foiled Ethiopia coup attempt, regional government reveals
Dozens of people were killed in fighting during a foiled coup by a rogue state militia in Ethiopia's Amhara region over the weekend, the regional government spokesman said on Wednesday, the first official report of significant clashes.
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JAPAN
May 21, 2019
Former U.S. defense chiefs and Ethiopian ex-leader to be decorated in Japan
Former U.S. defense secretaries Chuck Hagel and Ashton Carter, as well as former Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, will be among 142 foreign nationals recognized in this year's spring awards for notable contributions to relations between Japan and their countries, the government said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Mar 21, 2019
Japanese citizen believed to be among 5 miners killed by gunmen in Ethiopia
Five miners in Ethiopia were shot dead by unidentified gunmen earlier this week and the Japanese Embassy is trying to confirm media reports Thursday that one of the victims was a Japanese citizen.
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WORLD / FOCUS
Mar 18, 2019
FAA workers sounded alarm about Boeing performing its own safety checks as early as 2012
Employees of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration warned as early as seven years ago that Boeing Co. had too much sway over safety approvals of new aircraft, prompting an investigation by Department of Transportation auditors who confirmed the agency hadn't done enough to "hold Boeing accountable."
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WORLD
Mar 12, 2019
Ethiopian jetliner smoked, strewed debris and shuddered before death plunge, say witnesses
The Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed killing all 157 people aboard was making a strange rattling noise and trailed smoke and debris as it swerved above a field of panicked cows before hitting earth, according to witnesses.
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BUSINESS
Feb 19, 2019
Ethiopian coffee farmers are betting on blockchain to make trade fairer and boost business
On a bustling street near the shiny new international airport in Ethiopia's capital is a small coffee roastery with big dreams.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 17, 2019
Warming and deforestation threatening coffee species, including Ethiopia's Arabica, scientists warn
Climate change and deforestation are putting more than half the world's wild coffee species at risk of extinction, including the popular commercial coffees Arabica and Robusta, scientists warned on Wednesday.
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WORLD
Oct 3, 2016
Dozens killed in Ethiopia stampede after police fire warning shots at protesters attending festival
More than 50 people were killed in a stampede in Ethiopia's Oromiya region on Sunday that was triggered when police used teargas and shot guns into the air to disperse anti-government protesters at a religious festival.
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JAPAN
May 10, 2016
Japanese technology, investment could help turn Ethiopia into gateway to Africa, ambassador says
Introducing Japanese technology and investment projects to Ethiopia would not only speed up its growth but could also serve as a gateway to Africa, Cham Ugala Uriat, Ethiopia's new Ambassador to Japan, said Tuesday.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Feb 3, 2015
Bullet train black gold awaits Ethiopian roasters
On a typically sunny January day in southwestern Ethiopia, smallholder coffee farmers gather beneath red, blue and orange canvases, propped up by wooden stakes, to watch and participate in a coffee-tasting competition with demanding Japanese standards.
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ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Jan 4, 2014
To the Simien and back — 47 years on
By the time you read this I should be in the Simien Mountains of northern Ethiopia. I have been asked to go back there to tell the nation's current generation what the forests and wildlife were like in 1967, '68 and '69 when I served the government of Haille Selassie as the country's first game warden and set up the Simien Mountains National Park.
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ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Aug 31, 2013
Hope blooms eternal for the Simien National Park
In 1967, Ethiopia was the last African country south of the Sahara still without any national parks — an embarrassment for a nation then entertaining ambitions to assume leadership of the continent.
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LIFE / Travel
Jun 30, 2013
Delving into Ethiopia's ancient past and present
I'm edging my way through a long tunnel in pitch darkness, feeling for the roof so I don't hit my head, waving my trusty flashlight around to scan the walls and sandy floor and check for any unwelcome wildlife. I feel like Indiana Jones but a lot less brave.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.

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