2017 Mar: VIDEO The Great Monkey Cascade, Geladas in the Simiens
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I recorded the following for From Our Own Correspondent, the BBC programme on Radio 4. The audio can be heard here by clicking through to the time mark of 22m 20s: High on the roof…
Twenty years ago a shepherd boy in the remote highlands of Ethiopia heard something that would change his life - he heard English. It was being spoken by a small but growing flow of tourists…
Imagine a range of mountains cleaved in two. From one side it looks like any other: slopes gaining height from valley floor to rocky skyline. But when you reach that skyline, there’s something missing –…
The dominant feature of our first days in Ethiopia was one I had least expected – water. The most populous landlocked country in the world is yet to shed the Live Aid/Geldof framing of famine,…