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the country. Potential assailants could easily purchase the items needed to make bombs without inside of Somalia. Those materials could then be smuggled into country without the knowledge of law enforcement. Assailants could remain undetected in Addis Ababa before the attack is carried out on the US embassy. Government officials should continue to monitor the group. Efforts should be made to push attackers to secondary targets. These would be areas in which the affects of the attack would be…

As stated by Anderson, S., Peterson, M., & Tops, S., “ Africa is perhaps the least understood continent in the world. Misperceptions about African civilization and peoples have abandoned since European traders, slavers, and imperialists came into greater contact with Africans in the sixteenth century.” Africa located in a very special region, i.e. between Americans Continents, Europe, Asia, and Australia continents. It is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, the Mediterranean Sea on the…

Once there’s an ethical scandal, it will bring negative effects from media coverage, public criticism, legal and governmental punishment (G.Mehalu & Addis Ababa, 2011). Our existing offshore supplier used to break labor laws that force workers to work overtime without provide good and safe working environment in order to increase productivity and make profit. It did gain immediate monetary value by doing…

There was intense fighting from 1958 to 1972 until the Addis Ababa Agreement which gave Southern Sudan autonomy. In 1983, President Gaafar Nimeiry violated the agreement, attempting to create a federated Sudan which resulted in the death of two million southern Sudanese and nearly four million displaced. The…

What do you think why many traditional charity projects usually become unsuccessful? In The Blue Sweater, the author, Jacqueline Novogratz, had a chance to work with a project that failed because of several reasons. However, the two main reasons why traditional charity projects often fail are a lack of an efficient financial plan and a lack of professional experience and political connections of management team. To begin with, traditional charity projects fail because of a lack of an efficient…

The Chinese Civil Engineering Construction Corporation and China Railway Group (CREC) are building a railway to connect Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, to Djibouti, a port on the Red Sea. The project costs $1.2 billion, however, the Export-Import Bank of China is footing 70% of the bill, and the Ethiopian government the other 30%. This railway links Ethiopia to eight other…

The authors ' goal of this article is to educate the audience who has a little knowledge/information about the topic. The author gives brief explanations of the importance of trees in nature preservation and reduces the impact of climate change that currently affecting Ethiopia. He asserts that one way to effectively reduce the deforestation problem in Ethiopian is through Agroforestry the integration of trees. The author outline how planting trees can benefit to change the climate of the…

Stone. Prior to this novel, Verghese wrote two other critically acclaimed books: The Tennis Partner and My Own Country. These autobiographies detailed his experiences as an Indian physician in the United States. Verghese was born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia but was forced to flee during the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie. He found refuge in Madras, India—a setting he includes in Cutting for Stone. After completing his medical studies in India, Verghese sought a career in the United…

Education is a basic right that every child must be given the opportunity to achieve and maintain an acceptable level of learning. It is a right of children that must be respected; no child should be denied it and the opportunity to complete (UNICEF, 2004).It is therefore; educators have societal responsibility to make the provision of education to all people based on their diversified individual’s needs and ability (Okech, 1993). Among the different approaches to education, inclusive…

In the following article from 2002, author Melissa Greene, uses a past experience of a tragic death in her high school to draw conclusions about the Layla House Orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Greene uses a European/American stereotype style of writing to express her views on what will be the future for children in orphanages that have tested positive for the HIV/AIDS virus. Throughout the article Greene, reflects on how most children who have a positive HIV/AID result will not be adopted…