US Ambassador Travels to Dire Dawa and Harar (12/02/10)

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US Ambassador Travels to Dire Dawa and Harar (12/02/10) See all items with this value

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In Harar, on Tuesday, November 30, the Ambassador took part in a ceremony marking the completion of the renovations of the historic Teferi Mekonnen Palace and made a donation of equipment to the ongoing effort to preserve and archive the important Islamic manuscript collection housed in the Palace (now called the Harar City Museum). The Teferi Mekonnen Palace renovation was funded through a $35,000 grant from the Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation to Harar's Bureau of Culture and Tourism. The equipment provided by the U.S. Embassy to help preserve, display and archive the Islamic Manuscript collection is valued at approximately $27,000.

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2017-02-14

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2010 See all items with this value

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Embassy of the US. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia See all items with this value

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Articles