Tigray: A very Central European war - New Eastern Europe - A bimonthly news magazine dedicated to Central and Eastern European affairs neweasterneurope.eu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from neweasterneurope.eu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Authoress Rita Stranger Hillier is not known to be Maltese. Strictly speaking, she was Anglo-Maltese. Her father was Gustav Vassallo, son of Enrico Vassallo and Camilla Mifsud. His sister Maria, my mother, wife of Judge Roberto Federico Ganado, was six years older than Gustav, who was born in Malta on February 26, 1889.
On September 29, 1917, he married in London an English lady, Winifred Stranger-Ford. They had two daughters: Patricia, born on October 18, 1919, and Rita, born in London on June 14, 1921.
Rita married George Norman Hillier on June 27, 1951. They had no children, and Rita became a widow on August 24, 1963. During World War II she served with an ambulance unit in North Africa and Italy. Later, together with her husband, she made her home in the Western Desert of Egypt, thence to Ethiopia for a time before returning to England to the West Country Farm owned by the couple.
At around 9 a.m. on Jan. 15, Yodit Gulelat, the owner of Van Dorn Pharmacy, found herself facing down a growing line of elderly patients eager to get their COVID-19 vaccinations. The pharmacy had just received its first batch of Moderna vaccine doses from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the line outside her door was ballooning.
Gulelat, who immigrated to the U.S. from Ethiopia in 1986, worked non-stop to process the winding line of patients.
“I didn’t see her take a sip of water,” Pamela Norton, director of business development for a local architectural firm who had been at the pharmacy throughout the vaccination process, said.
What Uganda can learn from Ethiopia monitor.co.ug - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from monitor.co.ug Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Fighting in Ethiopia has left thousands of people dead and forced millions to flee their homes, sparking a humanitarian crisis. The unrest, which blew up in November, has compounded economic devastation wrought by the pandemic, prompting warnings from the country about its ability to repay debt. The dispute centers on the northern state of Tigray, where regional leaders are at loggerheads with the federal government led by Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.