Amanda Rivkin

Ethiopian Millennium

<b>ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA.</b> A mental health care worker watches a special millennium program on Ethiopian state television in the recreation room of the addiction ward at the Amanuel Psychiatric Hospital, the only of its kind in Ethiopia, on the eve of the Coptic millennium celebrations on September 11, 2007. While Ethiopians in the capital prepare for the festivities to usher in the year 2000 in the Ethiopian calendar, many say they wish the goverment had devoted its energies and finances to health care, social welfare and poverty alleviation instead. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for e-politik.de)
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA. A mental health care worker watches a special millennium program on Ethiopian state television in the recreation room of the addiction ward at the Amanuel Psychiatric Hospital, the only of its kind in Ethiopia, on the eve of the Coptic millennium celebrations on September 11, 2007. While Ethiopians in the capital prepare for the festivities to usher in the year 2000 in the Ethiopian calendar, many say they wish the goverment had devoted its energies and finances to health care, social welfare and poverty alleviation instead. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for e-politik.de)