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  • Despite Doping Concerns Ethiopia Finished Second on the Portland Oregon Indoor Championship

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    Ethiopia, one of five countries under the watchful eye of the IAAF over concern for their drug-testing systems, dominated the long races to finish second at the world indoor championships that ended on Sunday. Led by world record holder Genzeba Dibaba, the African nation swept the top two spots in the women's 3,000 metres and claimed gold in the men's 3,000m on Sunday. The strong showing came a day after Ethiopian-born athletes took the first four places in the women's 1,500m.

    "I think it is the altitude and hard training," Dibaba told Reuters when asked why Ethiopian men and women are so impressive in the distance events.

    Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, Ukraine and Belarus have been identified by IAAF president Sebastian Coe as countries in need of "critical care" because of their drug-test systems. "Ethiopia and Morocco -- as a matter of urgency -- need a robust testing program put in place," Coe said. "Kenya, Ukraine and Belarus need to get compliant by the end of the year." The countries are in no immediate danger of being banned from athletics and missing the Olympics, Coe said.

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  • Ethiopia quietly makes strides in robotics to improve lives

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    The black-and-white robot stopped and its eyes suddenly lit up. Rotating 90 degrees, it recognised the blue plastic ball a few centimetres away, came forward and kicked it.

    "The robot is Chinese, but the processor is made in Ethiopia," Getnet Aseffa explains. "A student developed it, and within a few months we will organise the first national football competition between robots, in the same vein as the International RoboCup tournament."

    Welcome to the iCog Labs experiment room in the heart of Addis Ababa's university district. Getnet, 28, is one of the brains behind the operation.

    After graduating in computer science in 2012, he co-created iCog with the help of US researcher Ben Goertzel.

    It is the first Ethiopian research and development laboratory specialising in artificial intelligence.

    "Our programmers have the same skills as Chinese, Americans and Europeans," Getnet says. "The only difference is the economic gap and the daily challenges we face."

    Among them are lack of infrastructure, erratic internet access and frequent power cuts.

    Getnet is convinced cutting-edge technology can be a development tool for his country.

    Ethiopia has invested €87m in the technology park Ethio ICT Village and does not hide its ambition to become a centre of excellence for scientific and technological research.

    The government has even imposed quotas: 70 per cent of students are required to take a course in hard sciences. Some of them may be part of the first promotion of the master's degree in artificial intelligence that will soon open at the University of Addis Ababa.

    "Now my goal is to bring robotics to elementary school," Getnet says, giving a plastic ball to the robot.

    "To develop our country, it's necessary that children learn the basics of programming from an early age."

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  • Training camp in Kenya and Ethiopia. A comparison.

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    For the last four years we prepared our running spring season in Kenya, more exactly in Iten, in the camp Kerio View. Inspring 2015 we went for the first time not to Kenya, but to the neighbouring country Ethiopia. Kenya has a population of 40 Mill. people and has half the size of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is three times larger than Germany and has a population of 100 Mill.

    Why Ethiopia and not Kenya like the last years? We love Kenya, the people, the landscape and the atmosphere. Ethiopia came to our mind because we knew that our coach Renato Canova will stay there from January up to the beginning of March. We’re interested in Ethiopia because there is a lot of unknown that we can discover, the new training conditions, the foreign culture and we want to see, where and under which conditions the Ethiopian runners are training. Since autumn 2014, Canova coaches Kenenisa Bekele, who has built a camp for athletes in Sululta, a place near Addis Abeba at an altitude of 2750m. Canova was there with the Chinese national team that he also coaches. And we joined the group.

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  • BIOGRAPHY TEDDY AFRO

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    Raised by musical parents, it was apparent at an early age that  Tewodros Kassahun , (now know as Teddy Afro) had a deep love of music. Over the past ten years, Teddy has emerged as the number one voice in Ethiopia, breaking records for album sales and show attendance.  He is known far and wide, inside and out of Ethiopia as the rising star of East Africa.

    The 2001 debut release of “Abugida”, was a landmark recording that established Teddy as a musical power to be reckoned with.  “Abugida” is a word that means “beginning”, in the language of Ge’ez (the predecessor to the modern spoken language of Amharic) and this recording is aptly named as it marks his entrance on the national stage.

    Using reggae rhythms combined with the traditional sounds of Ethiopian music, the songs are sung exclusively in the national language of Ethiopia, Amharic. Influenced by Ethiopian Maestro Tilahun Gessesse and international reggae superstar Bob Marley, Teddy combines the musicianship and message of his mentors. Singing of freedom from tyranny and self-emancipation on his debut release, he defined his voice as a songwriter as well as a singer. Using the keyboard as his primary vehicle for songwriting, he has written both hooks and melodies that have become a mainstay in Ethiopian pop culture.

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