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Apr 15 , 2024.
A 123-year-old newspaper adorns a cafe around Bole, inspiring the inquisitive gaze of its sole customer on a late afternoon. "Aimro" was the first government newspaper published in Ethiopia in 1901, and it had Emperor Menelik II on its front page. The Emperor introduced the first motor car, postal system, telephone, telegraph, and typewriter. Menelik also reorganized the tithe system to fund the army, issued the first national currency in 1894, and built the first mint nine years later
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