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Three-time Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia will take part in the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon on 23 January 2015, organisers of the IAAF Gold Label Road Race announced…

Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu – Ethiopia Alemu, 34, founded her company, SoleRebels, in 2004, and it is now bringing in $5 million in revenue annually. The company makes sandals, slip-ons and lace-up shoes from recycled tires.

Flamingos in Ethiopia

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Ethiopian legendary singer Alemayehu Eshete

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Abebe Bilila, Rome 1962 Olympics

Legendary Ethiopian signer Asnakech Worku

Ethiopian marathon legend Abebe Bikila at the 1960 Rome Olympics

Ethiopia’s first Marathon race in Addis Ababa, 1904 In the year 1904 the first marathon race was held in Addis Abeba in the middle of Art Kilo. – Source: Eduardo Byrono

Abebe Bikila, Tokyo, Japan – 1968

Empress Taitu of Ethiopia (photos)

Ethiopia in the Korean war

Emperor Fasiladas’ Castle in Gondar

Wearing Ethiopian cultural dress for wedding

The King of Kings and I: Haile Selassie, by his great nephew

Asfa-Woosen Asrate’s even-handed account of Haile Selassie’s successful autocracy is that precious thing: an African history written… Read the full text here

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Ras Makonnen Wolde Michael, Governor of Harrar, de facto Foreign Minister, Cousin of Emperor Menelik II, Father of Emperor HaileSellasie I.

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Emperor HaileSelassie I of Ethiopia takes a train ride while on an official visit in Switzerland – 26 Nov. 1954

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Liya Kebede on the cover of Vogue May 2009