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SHASHEMENE, Ethiopia -- Nine-month-old Alfiya Galeto weighed just 10 lbs. when she arrived at the makeshift clinic here, her eyes dull and her arms as thin as drinking straws. There was no food in ...
SHASHEMENE, Ethiopia — This was the Promised Land, a place where people stolen from Africa would one day return to reclaim their homeland and their pride. And Gladstone Robinson was one of the ...
SHASHEMENE, Ethiopia -- A Jamaican lilt rises in Albert Allen's voice as he chants the multiples of five in English to a group of wiggly children in the cement-block Rasta Community School.
2000-12-04 04:00:00 PDT Shashemene, Ethiopia-- The voluminous plumes of marijuana smoke that stream from Isaiah Kelly's mouth obscure the creases and wrinkles of a face aged prematurely by hardship.
About seven years ago, she and her husband emigrated from Jamaica to Shashemene, a town nearly 200 miles south of Ethiopia's capital. They are caretakers of the Nyahbinghi church here. Empress ...
Rastafarian priest Ras Moya attends festivities in Shashemene, Ethiopia to mark the 46th anniversary of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie's visit to Jamaica in 1966. After Selassie's visit ...
A 29-year-old day laborer in Shashemene, a city in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, was walking home from dinner with two friends one night in November when he heard a commotion. On the side of the ...
A resurgent Shashemene City held Ethiopian Insurance to a 1-1 draw in the day's other fixture. Both Week 12 fixtures at the Adama Science and Technology Stadium drew massive crowds. Insurance and ...