Ethiopian Olympic gold medallists are to help spearhead the country’s fight against poverty, the country’s national athletics coach announced on Wednesday.
Families displaced during the Ethiopia-Eritrea war are still not returning home because of the danger of landmines and the impending demarcation of the border.
Ethiopia has bought 60 Russian-made tanks from Yemen at a cost of over -million dollars, a privately-owned weekly newspaper reported on Wednesday.
World-renowned disaster experts on Friday declared the devastating crisis that is crippling Ethiopia a famine.
Ethiopia is on the brink of distributing the country’s first ever anti-retroviral drugs for treating HIV/Aids — but only to people who can afford them.
The head of a newly-formed political opposition party on Monday pledged wide-ranging land reform as the key manifesto strategy for the 2005 Ethiopian elections.
The US government has pledged some -million for desperately needed seeds to help avert a food crisis in Ethiopia next year, US officials in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, said.
Bob Geldof has called on Ethiopia’s leaders to be tested for HIV/Aids to prove their commitment to combating the pandemic.
Ethiopia’s latest drought-driven famine seems familiar at first: infants with pot-bellies suckling the emaciated breasts of mothers too tired to wave away flies crawling across their lips.
Some of the reasons for Ethiopia’s plight are well known. They include a legacy of misrule under its former dictator, Mengistu Haile Mariam, a swelling population, and flooding. Less well-known has been the devastating impact of slumping coffee prices for a country that relies heavily on coffee exports.