Last year, on a typical day in October, Hannah Lalango was riding home from school on the minibus. Suddenly, one of the bus passengers put a knife to her throat. Five men kidnapped a 16-year-old girl and took her to the house of one of the kidnappers. Hannah spent several days there and was gang raped. She was then thrown into the street, causing her serious injuries. When, finally, the girl was given health care and help from a gynecologist, it was already too late. Hannah Lalango died on November 1, 2014.
The tragic story of the Ethiopian girl appeared in the media only 2 weeks after her death. In fact, the Ethiopian public might never have known about the brutal gang rape if not for Blena Sahilu, an Addis Ababa University lecturer and women's rights activist. Yellow Movement AAU [Note lane Yellow Movement Addis Ababa University, verb. The Addis Ababa University Yellow Movement was founded by students and a faculty member at the university to support the rights of women and girls in Ethiopia and protect them from violence. Add. information: Yellow Movement AAU [English]]. Blena came across a small article about the incident in the newspaper and decided to start a campaign #JusticeForHanna[Justice for Hannah] on Twitter. Facebook campaign page reads as follows:
Seeking for an adequate punishment to all responsible for this heinous crime so that no other woman has to go through the same tragedy.
The purpose of creating this page is to achieve a well-deserved punishment for all those responsible for this heinous crime, so that no other woman has to endure a similar tragedy.
Shortly after the campaign began, the story began to spread like a virus, and the hashtag #JusticeForHanna quickly became one of the 15 most popular hashtags in Africa in 2014.
It is imperative that Ethiopian justice deals with the abduction, gang rape and subsequent death of Hannah Lalango as quickly as possible.
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Ethiopia is famous not only for its stunning landscapes, but also for its numerous and very distinctive tribes who jealously preserve their traditions. Lebanese photographer Omar Reda traveled to the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia and photographed representatives of three different tribes - the Hamar, Dasanech and Mursi. His vivid portraits demonstrate the unique cultural identity of each tribe, as well as their unusual jewelry, such as the famous labial discs of the Mursi and bottle caps and watch straps from women of the Dasanech tribe.
Emphasizing the artistic direction of his project and expressing gratitude for the hospitality of each of the tribes, Omar Reda commented to MailOnline: “I want to show the beautiful diversity of cultures on earth. These tribes still maintain their traditions and culture. One example: the lip disc of the Mursi tribe appeared during the times of colonization and slavery, when women began to pierce their lips and deform them so that they would not be taken into slavery. Over time, the tradition changed and the labial disc became a sign of beauty. The larger the disc, the more beautiful the girl is considered. Another example: I was told that Hamar women are not allowed to bathe at all after marriage.”
We invite you to look at some of Omar Reda's striking photographs that reflect whimsical beauty Ethiopian women.
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An elderly woman from the Hamar tribe, famous for covering their hair and body with clay, oil, animal fat and painting with ocher. The necklace on her neck is similar to a wedding ring.
The Dasanech tribe, numbering 200,000 people, lives in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia and is known for creating unique jewelry from everything from old electronic wristwatch and ending plastic lids from bottles. On the picture - elderly woman, decorated with watch straps and shells, as well as colored beads.
Another elderly Dasanech woman with colorful accessories. Wearing an ostrich feather means that the person killed either a wild animal or a member of an enemy tribe.
Among the Mursi tribe, the labial disc is considered a sign of beauty, and girls begin to wear it in adolescence, gradually increasing its size. They remove the two lower teeth to fit the disc: the larger it is, the more prettier girl. Seashells are considered the most exotic decoration.
Heavy labial discs, made of clay and often measuring five inches in diameter, are used to mark the traditional Mursi rituals of transforming a girl into a woman. Some women can eat without removing the disc, others take it out to eat.
Because Ethiopians do not belong to the Negroid race, but are representatives of the East African or Ethiopian small race, which has characteristics of the Negroid race ( dark pigmentation skin, curly hair), but the facial features of Ethiopians are more likely to be Caucasian.
The origin of the East African race remains controversial at present.In addition to Ethiopia, the Ethiopian minor race is common in Eritrea, which separated from Ethiopia in 1993, as well as in Somalia, Djibouti and partly in Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan, and Egypt.
With a population of over 84 million, Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Africa (after Nigeria) and 14th in the world. Ethiopia is the only traditionally Christian African country; currently 63% of the Ethiopian population professes Christianity, 34% are Muslims, and 2.6% adhere to African animist cults.
13th place: - Ethiopian model working in the USA and Europe. Height 179 cm, body measurements 84-61-89.
12th place: Tirunesh Dibaba / Tirunesh Dibaba(born June 1, 1985) is an Ethiopian track and field athlete. Three-time Olympic champion and four-time world champion in the 5000 and 10,000 meters.
11th place: Zewdy Awalom(born July 4, 1990, New York, USA) is an American singer of Ethiopian descent. Singer's channel - http://www.youtube.com/Zewdy
10th place: - beginning model. Born in Ethiopia, currently lives in the USA.
6th place: - model from Ethiopia, winner of the Model of Africa 2009 competition. Currently lives in the USA. Height 175 cm, body measurements 81-56-66.
5th place: - Miss Ethiopia 2010, represented the country at the Miss World 2012 competition.
4th place: Liya Kebede / Liya Kebede(born January 3, 1978) is an Ethiopian model, fashion designer and actress. Lives and works in the USA. Height 178 cm, body measurements 82-59-86.
Fulfilling the “order” - about Ethiopians in Sudan. Because, being here, it is simply impossible to ignore the life of the huge Ethiopian community, most of which are women.
The girl Sarah came to Sudan from Ethiopia, like thousands of other girls like her, in search of a more prosperous and happy life. She found a job at one of the many cafes in Khartoum that serves Ethiopian coffee.
Orders at this cafe are traditional. Water, coffee. A ceramic coffee pot fits on the tray that Sarah places on the table; thanks to its shape, it does not allow it to cool for a long time aromatic coffee, small cups, sugar, a cup of smoking bakhoor (incense) and a plate of popcorn for a snack.
Even newly arrived Ethiopian women very quickly begin to speak the Sudanese colloquial dialect Arabic, at least many of them also know English.
She asks how you liked the coffee, talks about herself, about her impressions of Sudan.
Few Ethiopians speak positively about Sudan, although most of them have lived here for years. The money they can earn in Sudan is considered an incredible amount in Ethiopia, so they use it to support not only themselves, but also their relatives back home.In Ethiopia it is like this - those who have a good education will never be left without normal operation and more or less decent earnings, but education for many residents of this overpopulated African country- an unattainable dream.
Sarah doesn’t like it in Sudan either; work isn’t going well. The cafe is visited mainly by men who are interested not so much in tasting coffee, but in “close” communication with beautiful girls.
Sarah complains that she needs regular customers who will come to the cafe precisely to drink coffee from her hands, because her earnings are a percentage of each visitor’s order, and there is no way to get such customers.
Those men whom she treats to coffee are happy to take her phone number, but they do not call her at all in order to book a table again for another evening, but to invite her to meet somewhere outside the cafe. If she refuses to meet outside of work, then they stop calling and don’t come to the cafe anymore. Coffee is just that, just a reason for further acquaintance.
Sudanese men, brought up in a society with strict views, perceive a girl who works in a cafe until late at night, sitting at tables with unfamiliar men and having casual conversations with them, unambiguously. Moreover, for some of them, Ethiopia is a country where they go for cheap pleasures that are not available in Sudan - wine and women.
Sudanese women, if they go to cafes, do so only as companions for their men. A Ethiopian girls is considered to be an easily accessible leisure option.
In many ways, they are perceived in the same way as women from the CIS in other countries.
They are beautiful, independent, hardworking. They do not count on anyone’s support and are forced to deal with all their problems alone, because, unlike Sudanese women, they often do not have male support behind them.
They take on any job that brings in at least some money - washing, ironing, cleaning, serving, babysitting, cooking, doing manicures, hairstyles. The list of jobs in which Ethiopian women can be involved is very extensive, because Sudanese women prefer to delegate these responsibilities to them.
Ethiopians at dark skin have European facial features. Many of them are tall, slender, and almost never suffer from excess weight.
Conducting long years Far from their homeland, they are nevertheless very committed to their country and traditions. If they listen to music, then only Ethiopian singers.
They dance their national dances.
If they drink coffee, then only “jabana,” when Ethiopian coffee beans are roasted over charcoal and then manually crushed in a mortar.
If they eat bread, then only home-made sour flatbreads called injera.
Every Ethiopian girl has at least a few in her closet. national dresses- completely traditional, according to the fashion of yesterday and from the latest collection of national fashion designers. Their designers, leaving the main motifs in the model - hand embroidery crosses, however, are constantly coming up with new versions of dresses.
For any holidays, Ethiopian girls wear only national clothes.
Ethiopians live in their community.
Nobody oppresses them, despite the fact that most of them are Christians. In Khartoum, entire neighborhoods are inhabited by “habash,” as the Sudanese call them. There are their shops, cafes, hairdressers, where Ethiopian women deftly weave african hair various small braids “mosh”. There is also an Ethiopian church in Khartoum, which occupies a fairly large area.
You can probably find a lot of photographs of Ethiopian women on the Internet. national clothes with hairstyles, but I don’t post other people’s photos, only what I have, but my own.