The biggest challenge to his diplo-matic career - that's how Ethiopian Ambassador to China Teshome Toga Chanaka describes 2020.
The unexpected novel coronavirus pan-demic resulted in 300 Ethiopian students stuck in Wuhan, the capital city of central China's Hubei Province (where the coun-try's first case was reported). "The embassy phones were ringing off the hook at that time [with our people wanting help and information]," Chanaka recalls.