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New Ocean Emerging in Africa’s Rift Valley, Geologists Say
In September-October 2005, a dramatic geological event unfolded in the Ethiopian Desert ... million years for the Earth’s crust in the rift valley to thin from “40 to 35 kilometers (25 ...
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Where the World’s Only Grass-Eating Monkeys Thrive
Homes thatched with stolen grass were burned. Small farms hug the slopes of the Great Rift Valley and cover much of the Ethiopian Highlands, fragmenting geladas’ native grasslands. Many ...
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Rift Valley Lakes, Ethiopia
Maintaining your paper trailA travel agency wonders: What paper files do we need to retain, and for how long? Catching the island vibes on Margaritaville at SeaI drew a bingo card as I boarded the ...
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To walk the world: part one
Color: lime green. The dust of the Rift Valley is a palimpsest stamped by such footwear. Yet if Ethiopia’s populist sandals are mass-produced, their wearers are not. One man might drag his left ...
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Ethiopia - Geography
Annual precipitation is heaviest in the southwest, scant in the Great Rift Valley and the Ogaden, and negligible in the Denakil Depression. More about the >Geography of Ethiopia.
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Africa’s tectonic shift: how the continent is splitting apart
The Somali tectonic plate in eastern Africa is “also stretching away from the Nubian plate, peeling apart along the East African Rift Valley, which extends through Ethiopia and Kenya”.
The Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund (EDTF) Broadens Its Mission to Drive Transformative Partnerships and Innovation for Ethiopia’s Growth
The Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund (EDTF), a pioneering diaspora-driven organization, is making waves as it expands its ...