(Left) Ghion Ashenafi, an electrical engineer at the Entoto Observatory and Research Centre and (right) Workers install a dome at the Entoto Observaory in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The construction of the observatory, the first in Ethiopia was completed nearly two years ago. PHOTO | ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER |
High above the crowded streets of Addis Ababa, among fields where farmers lead oxen dragging wooden ploughs, sits Ethiopia's space programme.
Perched on the top of the 3,200-metre high Mount Entoto, two metal domes house telescopes, each a metre in diameter.
