Nazret, Ethiopia News

From the first storey of a shopping centre along Nazret's main street, passers-by hear the beats of the latest American hip-hop hits.

Ethiopian women wait to cast their vote Sunday, May 23, 2010 at a poling station in Nazret, Ethiopia, 100 km south of Addis Ababa.

We are heartened to learn that President Obama is staying away from the funeral of Ethiopia's late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, whose death was announced last week, instead sending a comparatively low-level delegation led by the US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice.

This Ethiopian mystery bird shares its common family name with a number of other avian taxa that are not related Mystery Bird photographed on the road between Nazret in the Oromia Region, and Awash in the Afar Region of central Ethiopia .