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Ethiopia - Teff gaining popularity as animal feed in America
Teff, Ethiopia's staple crop, is gaining popularity as animal feed in the United States. Michigan State University (MSU) is having an open house this week to show off the crop. Teff which is used to make injera, the spongy bread used in Ethiopia, is increasingly expensive in Ethiopia. You can read about MSU's open house here.
An article about Teff by University of Nebraska says, "Compared to these other grasses, teff is much leafier and finer stemmed, and often contains more crude protein and TDN. However, it usually doesn’t produce quite as much tonnage. Teff makes a very palatable hay and is well accepted by horses, llamas, alpacas, and similar livestock. Recently weaned calves also adapt to teff hay quite quickly. Teff may be better suited to these uses than our other summer annual grasse. "
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Teff Recipes
Source: Purdue University
Teff Oat Bran Muffins
1/2 cup Arrowhead Teff
1/4 cup boiling water
2 cup Arrowhead Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
1/2 cup Arrowhead Oat Bran
1-1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt (optional)
1/2 cup honey
2 tbsp. Arrowhead Sesame Oil
1 cup buttermilk
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 tbsp. grated orange rind
Preheat oven to 375°F. Oil muffin tin. In a mixing bowl, pour boiling water over Teff. Stir to moisten all Teff. Set aside. In another mixing bowl mix flour, Oat Bran, baking soda, and salt. When the Teff mixture is cool, stir in honey, oil, buttermilk, egg, and grated orange rind. Add to dry ingredients. Mix with a few quick strokes, spoon into prepared muffin tin and immediately place into preheated oven. Bake for 20 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from tin. Makes 12 muffins.
Teff-Peanut Butter Muffins
1/3 to 1/2 cup uncooked Teff
2 cups Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
1 tbsp. low-sodium baking powder
1/2 tsp. sea salt
1/4 cup Peanut Butter, Crunchy or Creamy
2 tbsp. Unrefined Safflower Oil
1-1/2 cups water
4 tbsp. molasses, honey, or maple syrup
Stir Teff, flour, baking powder, and salt together. Cut in Peanut Butter and oil with fork or pastry blender until the mixture is like crumbs. Add the water and molases; stir just until well mixed, but do not beat. Fill oiled muffin cups 2/3 full. Bake 12-15 minutes at 350°F or until done.
Teff Burger
1 cup Arrowhead Teff
3 cup water
1 tsp. thyme
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1/4 tsp. salt (optional)
3 scallions, chopped
2 tbsp. Arrowhead Sesame Oil
6 slices Jarlsberg Cheese
6 slices tomato
6 lettuce leaves
6 hamburger buns
Place Teff, water, thyme, garlic, and salt in a pan and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Stir once or twice toward the end of cooking. Spread cooked Teff in a shallow pan to cool. When cooled, add scallions and form patties. Heat a skillet, add oil, and fry until nicely browned. Turn, top with cheese and cook until the bottom is browned and the cheese is melted.
Assemble burgers on buns with lettuce and tomato.
Makes 6 burgers.
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Kenya, Sudan to import power from Ethiopia
By ARGAW ASHINE
Sudan's national Electric agency is set to buy power from Ethiopia early next year after grid installation was completed last week.
Mr Saddiq Haroun, manager of the Ethiopia- Sudan power linkage project, told the Nation that a 157km power grid installation was done from Gedarif region of Sudan to Ethiopian west border.
The entire project will cost $35 million and India's Import export Bank is to provide $25 million as loan to the Sudanese government.
The power grid consists of 400 towers which have a capacity of carrying 220KV.
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Ethiopia suspends 42 NGOs as hunger worsens
By ARGAW ASHINE
Ethiopian authorities have suspended the operations of 42 non-governmental organisations allegedly involved in activities that are "out of their mandate” in the Southern region of the country.
Ethiopia's Southern regional state justice office chief Mr Yilma Meresa told this writer that those NGOs were out to interrupt the peace and development of the region.
Mr Yilma refused to disclose the name of the suspended organisations. However, he hinted that most of them were local NGO
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Ethiopia in need of more aid - UN
Addis Ababa - More than six million Ethiopians could soon need food aid due to poor rains in some parts of the country over the last three years, the UN humanitarian affairs office said on Monday.
Currently 4,9 million Ethiopians receive food aid, but the figure could rise to 6,2 million, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement.
A current relief food shortfall of 176 000 metric tonnes is also expected to rise to 390 000 tonnes, it added.
"Because of the existing shortfall, only three of the six planned rounds of food allocations have been distributed to date," it said.
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Ethiopia's export earnings tumble 42% of gov't forecast
Ethiopia's export earnings for the fiscal year that just ended in June 2009, is down 42% of projected earnings of $2.6 Billion. The country's Ministry of Trade and Industry said, Ethiopia's export earnings in 2008/09 (July-June) came in at $1.5 billion, well below a planned $2.6 billion due to the global financial crisis.
Coffee export was severely hit, Ethiopia earned $376 million from sales of 134,000 tonnes of coffee, down from $525 million it earned in 2007/08.
Ethiopia is Africa's largest exporter of coffee and the world's fourth largest exporter of sesame seeds.
Despite the power cuts affecting industry and export earnings down 42 percent of government forecast, Ethiopia insists economy to grow 10% this year.
Ethiopia's Export Earnings breakdown
- $376 million from sales of 134,000 tonnes of coffee
- $355 million from exports of 287,334 tonnes of oil seeds
- $139.2 million from exports of 25,000 tonnes of khat
- $91 million from exports of pulses
- $99.43 million sales of 4.72 tonnes of gold,
- $131 million from the export of 1,300 billion flower stems
- $76 million from Live animal and meat products
- $105.3 million from leather exports
Geologists, geophysicists say volcanic eruption causes surface displacement in Ethiopia
ENA - A team of geologists and geophysicists dispatched to Afar region in northeast Ethiopia, where volcanic eruption took place recently, confirmed that the eruption caused surface displacement in the area.
The eruption has recently occurred in the Karbahi locality about 65-kms northwest of Semera, capital of Afar regional state.
Earth Scientists drawn from Institute of Geophysics, Space Sciences and Astronomy (IGSSA), Department of Earth Sciences of the Addis Ababa University, Geological Survey of Ethiopia, Mines and Water Bureau of the Afar Regional State as well as the universities of Cambridge and Oxford told ENA over the weekend that the volcanic eruption, which occurred on June 29th, 2009, was emitted from about 4.5-kms long crack.
According to them, the current eruption occurred on the same place affected by a 60-km long and 2-meter wide dyke that was intruded in 2005, extending from Dabbahu to Harraro area.
With the expectation of more volcanic events in the region, Dabbahu-Manda-Hararo is one of the most active areas on the planet right now, they said.
Dr. Elias Lewi at IGSSA of Addis Ababa University said that there were a number of magmatic movements in the area since 2005. However, most of them remained beneath the surface of the earth, he said, adding that the recent one is the fourth eruption in Ethiopia since 2005.
Dr. Gezahegn Yirgu of the Department of Earth Sciences from Addis Ababa University mentioned that the eruption was a continuation of the magmatic/ dyking event that started to occur some four years ago.
The recent molten rock emitted from the eruption covers an area of about 4.5 square kilometers and has also created small hills elevated about 30 to 40 meters high.
Dr. Tesfaye Kidane from the Department of Earth Sciences on his part said that the lava has overflowed from the fissure that measures about 5-kms long and surface displacement or faulting occurred in the vicinity following the eruption.
The Earth Scientists from the Department of Earth Sciences and IGSSA of AAU further said that bigger eruptions and earth quakes are expected to happen in the next few years.
They also urged responsible bodies in the region to consider these active earth phenomena and associated hazards in any of the development activities being undertaken in the area.
Ethiopia's Foreign Affairs State Minister holds discussion with Kuwaiti counterpart
ENA -
Ethiopian Foreign Affairs State Minister Dr. Tekeda Alemu here on Monday held discussion with Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry Undersecretary, Ambassador Khalid Sulaiman Al-Jarallah on various issues of mutual concern.
A senior official with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told journalists that the discussion focused on a number of bilateral issues of political and economic affairs, among others.
The official said the two sides are currently seeking to enhance the existing historical relationship between Ethiopia and Kuwait.
According to the official, the discussion was to facilitate ways in which the already existing development cooperation between Ethiopia and Kuwait would further be advanced.
Ambassador Khalid Sulaiman Al-Jarallah on his part told journalists that his country is keen to have strong bilateral ties with Ethiopia.
“We need to do more in the next future to enhance and promote our bilateral relations,” he said.
According to him, the discussion was fruitful and would help the two sides have common stand on the need to further strengthen cooperation.
He pointed out that the two sides have agreed to continue consultations. According to him, a memo of understanding on bilateral consultations is going to be signed in Addis Ababa on Tuesday, July 21, 2009.
A high level Kuwaiti delegation led by Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is here for a three-day official visit.
The Kuwaiti Premier is on an African tour, which took him to Benin and Gabon, Ethiopia, Comoros, Swaziland, and Senegal, according to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
Ethiopia - Six projects go operational in Axum Town
ENA - Construction of six of the eight development projects launched in Axum Town of Ethiopia's Tigray State at a cost of 47 million birr has been finalized, town mayor, Hagos Gebrewold said.
Speaking at the opening of the 4th regular meeting of the town council, Hagos said six of the projects launched in the previous budget year have already gone operational.
The projects include, among others, construction of roads, abattoirs, installation of electric power cables and water pipelines.
The road development fund, the federal and regional governments have supported construction of the projects, he said.
He said construction of market center and drainage development project is expected to be finalized at the end of the current month.
The projects will benefit 45,000 residents when they fully go operational, the mayor said.
Ethiopia - Jimma Agricultural Research Center discovers new species of soya bean
ENA - The Jimma Agricultural Research Center in Ethiopia's Oromia State said it has discovered new species of soya bean, center manager , Dr. Wendyefraw Tezera said.
The manager told ENA that the new species can withstand disease and provide up to 30 quintals of output per hectare.
The national seed approval committee is expected to prove the new species so as to distribute the seed to the farmers, he said.
The center has also been multiplying another four species of soya bean on plots of 58,000 farmers, who are organized in research teams in Jimma and Illuababor zones.
The center so far distributed over 300 quintals of seed and offered relevant training to farmers.
The center has been working to enable farmers benefit from improved species of soya bean since the past two years , Dr. Wendyefraw said.
Farmers in Ethiopia obtain 280 million birr from barley production
ENA - Farmers engaged in barley cultivation in Ethiopia's Arssi zone of Oromia state have obtained over 280 million birr income in the current Ethiopian year, zonal agriculture and rural development office said.
Cereals development expert with the office, Jerre Dubo told ENA on Monday that the farmers have supplied 660,000 quintals of barley to the Assella Malt Factory in the zone.
Over 50,000 farmers were engaged in the production of barley.
Over 1.2 million quintals of barley has been collected in the zone over the past two years, according to the expert.
Ministry attributes Ethiopia's economic growth to government's sound policy, strategy
ENA - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Ethiopia attributes the national economic growth to the implementation of the sound agricultural policy and strategy of the incumbent government.
The main cause of the national economic growth registered over the last successive years is the developmental and democratic government of the country which is committed to implement its agricultural policy and strategy, according to a magazine of the ministry published by its the public relations section.
Hence, it said, lots of farmers who were engaged in primitive ways of production earlier were able to boost agricultural production and productivity, and thereby amass properties valued at millions of Birr owing to the feasible agricultural policy and strategy.
It said the current agenda of the agricultural policy and strategy shall be introducing and expansion of improved agricultural technologies among farmers, agro-pastoralists, and pastoralist communities of the nation.
According to the magazine, the government has been undertaking multifaceted activities geared toward disseminating improved agricultural technologies, distributing agricultural inputs, and creating market access to local farmers over the years.
Ethiopia - Kuwait agrees to provide 63 million USD loan for electricity, road projects
ENA -
The government of Kuwait has agreed to provide nearly 63 million USD loan meant for expansion of electricity in Ethiopia's Afar Sate and construction of Wukro-Zalanbessa road in Tigray State.
More than 38 million USD of the fund will be used to expand electricity in Afar region while the balance will be spent on construction of the stated road, According to a statement the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development sent to ENA later on Monday.
The statement said Kuwait has also plan to support construction of Nekemete-Bedelle road in Oromia State. The country previously gave 35 million USD loan for expansion of the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport.
Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti Civil Aviation Director General Fawes Al-Farah signed agreement with Ethiopian counterpart Gobena Guangul to increase weekly flight of the Ethiopian Airlines from Addis Ababa to Kuwait to seven days from the previous two days a week.
The working visits of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to Kuwait in 1996 and 2007, as well as the opening of Kuwaiti embassy here in 1997 contributed a lot for vibrant relations between the two countries.
A high level Kuwaiti delegation led by Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is here to pay a three-day working visit.
Ethiopia - Prime Minister Meles receives, hold talks with Kuwaiti counterpart
ENA -
Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi received and held discussions with Kuwaiti Prime Minister, Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah here on Tuesday.
After the discussion held with Kuwaiti Delegation at the National Palace, Meles told Journalists that the talks focus on how to bolster all-rounded cooperation between Ethiopia and Kuwait.
Meles said the official visit made by the Kuwaiti delegation and the agreements signed between the two countries testify that Ethiopia and Kuwait were able to forge commendable bilateral relations over the years.
Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah will always remember Ethiopia’s firm stand against the invasion witnessed during former Iraqi regime invaded the sovereign Kuwait.
Ethiopia and Kuwait have been enjoying commendable bilateral relations for ages, he said, In fact, Kuwait considers Ethiopia as part of the ‘Arabian Peninsula’.
He said the two sisterly countries decided to further bolster bilateral ties, especially in economic sectors through boosting the volume of trade and investment between the two nations.
The Kuwaiti premier said he has invited Meles Zenawi to visit his country sometime in the future.
Kuwaiti premier, who is the first Kuwaiti premier visiting Ethiopia, said lots of Ethiopians are living in Kuwait and reaffirmed that the country remains open to Ethiopians.
Obama Criticizes Arrest of Harvard Professor
WASHINGTON — President Obama bluntly accused the police of acting “stupidly” in arresting the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. last week after an officer had established that Mr. Gates had not broken into his own home in Cambridge, Mass.
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Gates Says He Is Outraged by Arrest at Cambridge Home
Prominent Black Professor Says He Will Use Experience to Further Academic Work
By Krissah Thompson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 21, 2009; 2:42 PM
Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. cast his recent arrest in his home in Cambridge, Mass., as part of a "racial narrative" playing out in a biased criminal justice system. The professor who has spent much of his life studying race in America said he has come to feel like a case study.
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Black scholar's arrest raises profiling questions
BOSTON — Supporters of a prominent Harvard University black scholar who was arrested at his own home by police responding to a report of a break-in say he is the victim of racial profiling.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. had forced his way through the front door of his home because it was jammed, his lawyer said Monday.
Cambridge police say they responded to the well-maintained two-story home near campus after a woman reported seeing "two black males with backpacks on the porch," with one "wedging his shoulder into the door as if he was trying to force entry."
"This arrest is indicative of at best police abuse of power or at worst the highest example of racial profiling I have seen," Sharpton said. "I have heard of driving while black and even shopping while black but now even going to your own home while black is a new low in police community affairs."
Al Sharpton
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Ethiopia - Watch Eleni Gabre-Madhin on PBS July 22
Live Chat with Aaron Brown and Eleni Gabre-Madhin
The film premieres on Wednesday, July 22 at 10:00 p.m., but broadcast times vary from region to region, so check your local listings for air times by clicking here:
As an additional feature to the film, Wide Angle will be hosting a live web discussion, during which you can join in a conversation with Gabre-Madhin, Wide Angle host Aaron Brown, and the filmmakers, Eli Cane and Hugo Berkeley.
The talk will be hosted live on Thursday 23rd July 11:00 am EST at pbs.org/wideangle.
The number you can call to participate live is (718) 506-1351.
Wide Angle would love to have as many people involved in this discussion and has asked us to spread the word.
Watch the film and have your say on Thursday July 23 at 11:00 AM EST
Eleni Gabre-Madhin is a woman with a dream. The charismatic Ethiopian economist wants to end hunger in her famine-plagued country. But rather than relying on foreign aid or new agricultural technology, she has a truly radical plan. She has designed the nation’s first commodities exchange, which she hopes will revolutionize an ancient market system whose inefficiencies have been partly responsible for the country’s persistent food shortages. WIDE ANGLE travels to East Africa for The Market Maker, hosted by anchor Aaron Brown, to tell the dramatic, intimate story of a woman on a mission – and a world of trouble standing in her way. The morning after the film's premiere, join a live chat with Gabre-Madhin, the filmmakers, and host Aaron Brown.
The Market Maker: Introduction
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Eleni Gabre-Madhin is a woman with a dream. The charismatic Ethiopian economist wants to end hunger in her famine-plagued country. But rather than relying on foreign aid or new agricultural technology, she has a truly radical plan. She has designed the nation’s first commodities exchange, which she hopes will revolutionize an ancient market system whose inefficiencies have been partly responsible for the country’s persistent food shortages.
In April 2008 and after more than a decade of planning, the starting bell rang on the trading floor for the first time. Gabre-Madhin has been running frantically ever since. She attempts to maintain the machinery that keeps her country fed while facing powerful special interests, antiquated farming practices, poor infrastructure, and an unpredictable climate. Not to mention a global economic crisis.
WIDE ANGLE travels to East Africa for The Market Maker, hosted by anchor Aaron Brown, to tell the dramatic, intimate story of a woman on a mission – and a world of trouble standing in her way.
Airs Wednesday July 22, 2009
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Ethiopia - Fingerprint Collection Begins in Addis
By MERGA YONAS
The Revenue and Customs Authority (RCuA) has collected about 6,600 taxpayers' fingerprints in the first week of the about 70 million Br worth National Identification System (NIS) Project, launched early last week under the first round of this project and financed by the World Bank, plans to collect fingerprints from over 1.6 million people in Addis Abeba.
The project consultant that signed a contract agreement with RCuA in October 2008, Copycat Ethiopia I.T. Plc, has deployed 150 of its employees who, using the mobile registration units, collect the fingerprints that will be transferred to the RCuA's central database from every collection centre across Addis Abeba. The first person to have his fingerprints stored in the system last Tuesday is Melaku Fenta, director general of the Authority.
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