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- The Well That Twitter Built - Mashable
  Posted by Jeff from Mashable
  On September 18th 2008, Mashable's Twitter followers donated $3536 to Charity:Water, an initiative to build wells in Ethiopia. On the same day, our Twitter friend Paul Young raised a further $637 through his Twitter and Facebook accounts. And Twitter user Sarah Townsend hauled in $400 - that's more than $4500, almost exclusively from Twitter, in a single day. With $4000 buying an entire well to supply water to 200 people for 20 years, we can truly call this the "well that Twitter built".
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- An aid worker’s selfless life
  Posted by devolved from The Age
  From women's hospital nurse to wife of an Ethiopian clan leader, devoted aid worker Valerie Browning has published a memoir of her life, which she believes would have been no life at all without risk.
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- Deal brewing in the Starbucks coffee fight
  Posted by SoxFirst
  With its carefully designed ethical image badly tarnished, Starbucks is about to announce a deal with Ethiopia over its claims in premium coffee brands. And for Ethiopian farmers, it could be worth millions of dollars a year.
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- 74 die in Ethiopian oil field attack
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Gunmen raided a Chinese-run oil field near the Somali border on Tuesday, killing 65 Ethiopians and nine Chinese workers, an official of the Chinese company said. An ethnic Somali rebel group claimed responsibility for the attack. Seven Chinese workers were kidnapped.
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- Starbucks coffee roasted
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  Ethiopia's coffee growers are creating problems for Starbucks which has an annual turnover of $7.8 billion, not much lower than Ethiopia's gross domestic product. Ethiopian farmers make a pittance on the coffee and Starbucks has refused permission for Ethiopian farmers to trademark their beans.
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- Somalia inches towards war
  Posted by Billbar from Guardian UK
  Somalia was edging closer to full-scale war last night as Ethiopian troops moved into a second Somali town, potentially bringing them into conflict with an Islamic militia that has taken over the capital, Mogadishu, and is seeking to spread its influence over the rest of the country. The move of fresh Ethiopian troops into the anarchic country raises the prospect of renewed war in Somalia. Ethiopia strongly backs the UN-supported government of President Abdullahi Yusuf and has vowed to prevent the country from slipping into the hands of Islamic extremists.
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- 'Absurd' Ethiopia charges slammed
  Posted by Billbar from BBC News
  Amnesty International has urged the Ethiopian government to free the 111 people on trial for treason and genocide, saying the genocide charges were "absurd".
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