Addis Ababa Bank, Ethiopia’s first privately owned bank, was founded in 1964 with 2 million in capital, 40% owned by National and Grindlay Bank, London. By 1968, its capital grew to 5 million, operating 26 branches with 300 staff.
The Greeks and hellenists, astute as they were, are an exceptional source as regards the contributions of ancient blacks to world civilization (Lucian, quoted below, is referring to the Northeast African Kushite progenitors of Kerma and the Puntites - c. 3,100 BC)
Princess Anne attends, with the Emperor, Haile Selassie, a graduation ceremony of Naval cadets, dinner ball and parade on the square at the naval base, Massawa. February 1973
Prince Alemayehu photographed after death, 1879. "A plaster cast was taken of the prince’s face for any future memorial statues. A photographer came to take
two posthumous photographs."💔 The prince & the plunder
The trial has started against a 20-year-old American woman who stabbed a 64-y-old Eritrean asylum seeker to death while he was sexually assaulting her at a train station in Kaiserslautern, Germany last summer.
The woman is a civilian contractor working at the Ramstein Air Base
Happy 79th birthday Ethiopian Air Lines (EAL) - began operations today in 1946 with its first flight from Addis Ababa to Cairo, Egypt via Asmara, Eritrea. A Douglas C-47 aircraft flew both passengers and cargo. In 2025 EAL is Africa's largest and the world's 4th largest airline.
I see no issues with paternity tests becoming standard procedure. If women knew to expect them, maybe they’d think twice about cheating. And children could grow up in healthy, intact homes.