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Some curiosities:

• Travel advice: Don’t leave home without earplugs in case you don’t agree with the bus driver’s music selection.
• Motives of churches murals: Belai the Cannibal - Although not a saint, he’s a favourite theme in religious art. Devouring anyone who approached him including his own family, Belai yet took pity one day on a leper begging for water in the Virgin’s name. After Belai died – some 72 human meals later – Satan claimed his soul. St Mikael, the judge, balanced Belai’s victims on one side, the water on the other. However, the Virgin cast her shadow on the side of the scales containing the water, and caused them to tip. Belai’s soul was saved.
• Ethiopian Media: Ethiopian TV, Radio Ethiopia and the country’s most widely circulated newspapers are state controlled. The Ministry of Information shares a building with Ethiopian TV.
• Frogs: During a scientific expedition biologists discovered frogs who appear to have made peculiar adaptions to their environment. One species swallows snails whole, another has forgotten how to hopp and a third has lost its ears.
• Eating from individual plates strikes most Ethiopians as hilarious, as well as rather bizarre and wasteful. In Ethiopia, food is always shared from a single plate without the use of cutlery. Don’t be offended if waiters snatch away your plates the moment you’ve finished; its considered impolite to leave dirty dishes in front of customers.
  (Lonely Planet: Ethiopia & Eritrea)
  


• Statistics of 2005 estimated that: farmers in Addis Ababa had a total 20,700 head of cattle, 7,900 sheep, 3,150 goats, 380 horses, 270 mules, 4,780 donkeys, 21,420 poultry of all species, and 170 beehives.
  (CSA 2005 National Statistics, Tables D.3 - D.5.)

Goat market Addis Ababa

Was mich als Sanitäterin zum Nachdenken brachte:

• In der äthiopischen Gesundheitsversorgung stehen verhältnismäßig 3 Ärzte 100.000 Einwohnern zur Verfügung. In Österreich sind es zum Vergleich 3 Ärzte pro 1000 Einwohner.
• Von Unterernähung sind 47% der Kinder unter 5 Jahren betroffen
• Über Zugang zu sauberem Wasser verfügen landesweit nur 22 %; (in den Städten 90 %, auf dem Land 20 %)
• Im Human Development Index (HDI) ist Äthiopien mit dem 170. Rang von 177 verzeichnet.
  Im Gender Related Development Index (GDI) mit dem 134. Rang von 140
• Im Index über den Anteil der Bevölkerung unter der Armutsgrenze-Human Poverty Index (HPI-1) der 99. Rang von 103
  (UNDP, 2005)