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Swiss nursery lets robot do the talking
Swiss nursery lets robot do the talking
by  AFP

Sat in a circle on the nursery floor, a group of Swiss three-year-olds ask a robot called Nao questions about giraffes and broccoli. Back in the class, teacher Eve L'Eplattenier and the 14 children sat in a circle on the floor with Nao in the middle.

A gloomy season for Ethiopia's 'green gold' at the khat market
A gloomy season for Ethiopia's 'green gold' at the khat market
by  AFP

"We call it green gold," says Ramadan Youssouf, a khat trader in the Ethiopian town of Aweday, one of the largest markets in the world for the mildly narcotic shrub. Many of the bundles from the Aweday market will make their way to Wajale, a border town straddling Ethiopia and Somaliland -- a breakaway region of Somalia.

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