{"id":291543,"date":"2019-06-17T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=1102041129896632d104491541f9b50a"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:16:17","slug":"die-zeit-asked-whether-ethiopias-addis-ababa-observatory-could-keep-science-talent-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/291543","title":{"rendered":"DIE ZEIT asked whether Ethiopia\u2019s Addis Ababa observatory could keep science talent at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its 25\/2019 issue, DIE ZEIT\u2019s Felix Lill visited Ethiopia\u2019s space-research centre in Addis Ababa and described a telescope hall that lost power mid-morning until staff restarted a generator beside mirrors shipped in marked German crates.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-355987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"DIE ZEIT asked whether Ethiopia\u2019s Addis Ababa observatory could keep science talent at home\" \/>\n<p>Lill asked whether one of the world\u2019s poorer countries could use space research to protect harvests and keep gifted scientists from leaving, framing the observatory as both a national ambition and a fragile daily operation.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as science archive, the ZEIT feature dates a mid-2019 European look at Ethiopia\u2019s space and astronomy push.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeit.de\/2019\/25\/weltraumforschung-aethiopien-addis-abeba-observatorium\">DIE ZEIT<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weltraumforschung: \u00c4thiopiens Griff nach den Sternen | ZEIT ONLINE&nbsp;&nbsp;ZEIT ONLINE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":355987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1dQj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755237,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291543\/revisions\/755237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}