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Africa's first black female athlete to win gold at the Olympics, Derartu Tulu, will now be featured on postage stamps in her home country Ethiopia.
Zambia has announced it will start rationing its electricity, as the effects of the drought that's hitting much of southern Africa continues to bite. The stamps were unveiled today in the capital, Addis Ababa, to mark International Women’s Day.
Eight hours of load shedding per day will begin by the start of next week, announced the managing director of the state-owned power company Zesco on Thursday. Each stamp in the series shows moments in her career starting from her first Olympic win in 1992 in Barcelona, when she was aged just 20, state broadcaster EBC reported.
Victor Mapani said the move was a result of the low water levels at Kariba Dam which is used to generate most of Zambia's hydroelectricity. Derartu is a huge figure in the country and has been the president of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF) since November 2018.
He said Zambia would continue importing power from Mozambique to cushion the energy deficit on the economy. Her Olympic wins also included 10,000m gold in 1992, the same again at Sydney 2000, and a bronze at Athens in 2004.
Mr Mapani advised consumers to use alternative sources of energy. She is the latest Ethiopian athlete to be honoured with a stamp in the East African nation - previous figures include Abebe Bikila and Haile Gebrselassie.
Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema has declared the drought a national emergency and urged local and international partners to help in fighting its effects.
Besides affecting the country’s energy sector, the dry spell is already hurting Zambia’s agriculture sector with an estimated one million subsistence farmers having their planted crops damaged.
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