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.
Africa’s economy grew at 3,1% in 203 compared to 4,3% in 2001, largely due to the sluggish recovery of the global economy and the crises on the continent from conflict, drought and the HIV/Aids pandemic, a leading United Nations economist on Africa said on Thursday.
African defence experts gathered on Monday in Ethiopia to lay the groundwork for a continent-wide peacekeeping force that aims to provide rapid reaction to crises and conflicts within Africa.
The African Union on Friday condemned the massacre of hundreds of people in northeastern Congo last week and said the violence was an attempt to derail the peace process intended to end the four-and-a-half year war in Africa’s third largest country.
Farmers in lowland areas of eastern Ethiopia are increasingly turning to the narcotic khat, according to the UN’s Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia.
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/ 24 February 2003
The International Committee of the Red Cross is stepping up its emergency relief effort in Ethiopia, the organisation said last week.
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/ 20 February 2003
More than 65-million Africans risk catching trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness, the common name of the illness, every year and the disease is a major threat to Africa’s development, a report by the African Union warns.
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/ 11 February 2003
The head of the UN’s Economic Commission for Africa has criticised the international community for often ”undermining national development efforts”.
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/ 3 February 2003
Heeding an appeal from President Thabo Mbeki, African leaders agreed on Monday to set up a peace and security council with the power to intervene in the continent’s myriad conflicts.
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/ 3 February 2003
The first summit of the newborn African Union was set to open in the Ethiopian capital on Monday, with regional conflicts including Ivory Coast high on the agenda.
When the crude, animal-polluted ponds in the central Ethiopian village of Deyata Dodota used to run dry — as they always did for six months of the year — the women would set out at 4am on a long, back-breaking journey. They’d trek 20km to the nearest water source.
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/ 26 December 2002
Ethiopian Federal Police are examining a foreign link in a scam that deprived the state Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation of over -million in revenues through illegal diversion of international telephone calls.
Ethiopia, which abides by the Orthodox Julian calendar, celebrated its New Year on Wednesday with President Girma Wolde-Giorgis calling for national unity to fight drought and Aids.
Ethiopia is in imminent danger of losing its rare wildlife, the national Institute of Biodiversity Conservation and Research has warned.
Ethiopian officials seeking the return of an ancient obelisk looted by Italian fascist forces in 1937 left for Italy at the weekend determined to find out when and how it will be repatriated, officials said on Monday.
The Irish rock star and the American treasury secretary joked and argued their way across Africa for 12 days, raising awareness of the problems faced by the world’s poorest continent.
The Organisation of African Union has released ,2-million to help combat drought and the threat of famine in six countries of the Southern African Development Community.
The Organization of African Unity (OAU) Secretary General, Amara Essy, pledged on Thursday to make greater efforts to help African refugees.
A hand grenade exploded in a packed classroom at a school in Addis Ababa on Monday, injuring 15 students, police said. The grenade’s safety pin was found under a desk in the blood-splattered classroom for fourth grade students.
Sharp commodity price falls and the terrorist attacks in the United States held back Africa’s economies in 2001, but things are looking up.
A gathering of coffee traders approved a plan to combat world oversupply and rescue low prices, but delegates said on Tuesday there was no way the measures advocated by British charity Oxfam could be enforced.
More Ethiopian women die in hospital from illegal abortion complications than for almost any other medical reason, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.
COUNTRIES in the nascent African Union will need a legal framework enshrining their right to intervene in other states in the event of war crimes, genocide or crimes against humanity.
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/ 19 October 1995
Eritrea reined in United Nations peacekeepers along its border with Ethiopia, leaving the force incapable of giving the world much warning if the Horn of Africa rivals were to clash again. Increasingly isolated, Eritrea also is seen as the main obstacle to restarting talks that may be the only way to avert a new and devastating war over territory between two of the poorest countries in the world.