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GLOBE AND MAIL-A few months ago, a small town honoured Toronto fund manager Eric Sprott by naming a street after him. The town isn't in Canada, it's in Ethiopia. In February, officials in Bati named one of the town's main streets "Eric Sprott Road" and the local marketplace "Eric Sprott Market Centre." The honour was in recognition of more than $8-million the Sprott Foundation has contributed to ... Full story

A decommissioned ambulance dedicated to former Ottawa mayor Marion Dewar will soon be in service in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. At a handover ceremony outside City Hall yesterday, Councillor Diane Deans gave the keys to the ambulance to Samuel Getachew of Friends of Ethiopia, which organized the project and raised the money to ship the ambulance to Ethiopia. ... Full story