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Recognising the humanity of Ethiopia
An encounter with a cabbie has ROGER McKENZIE reflecting on the remarkable history of a great African nation and the importance of migrants and their skills for our beloved NHS
Villagers in Asmut, Ethiopia, put on a traditional welcome for UN Special Envoy for El Nino and Climate Mary Robinson, in 2016
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Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
AFTER the relief of finally tracking down a taxi that would take a debit card on a hectic Saturday night near Cardiff railway station, my wife and I got chatting with the driver.
The driver, who was willing to take us back to our hotel by a convenient cash point, originally hailed from Ethiopia and, it turned out, knew our home town of Oxford because he had trained there as a radiologist.
There is so much to unpick from that one sentence.
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