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Africa’s point man at the Copenhagen climate-change summit next month is prime minister of drought- stricken Ethiopia, a former Marxist rebel who favors tailored suits and has coaxed billions of dollars in aid from the West.
Mike Wooldridge looks at today's famine fears It is now well over two decades since Mesele Adhena gave up all hope of being able to remain in his village of Bezeta, and came to this market town in the highlands of northern...
Nairobi/Addis Ababa - Exactly 25 years ago, BBC correspondent Michael Buerk unveiled the full extent of Ethiopia's now infamous drought, calling it a Biblical famine in the 20th century. A cavalcade of horrors paraded before...
It is now well over two decades since Mesele Adhena gave up all hope of being able to remain in his village of Bezeta, and came to this market town in the highlands of northern Ethiopia. "Had we stayed," he says, "we would all...
Adama University (AU), formerly known as Nazareth College of Technical Teachers Education, on Thursday declared that it instigates the first self-developed, campus-wide eLearning environment in the university.
25 years after Michael Buerk's broadcasts from Ethiopia, the documentaries have stopped, but the starvation hasn't Michael Buerk describes them as "by far the most influential pieces of television ever broadcast". The first of...
News Type: Opinion — Fri Oct 16, 2009 1:08 PM EDT Are you on Twitter? "Follow Friday" these important causes and help bring an awareness to change and progression! On the "Exhibit Darfur" website, one can find information on...
AFD, the French development agency, is expanding its development support in Ethiopia and a number of projects are well under way in various sectors across the nation, the French Ambassador to Ethiopia indicated on Wednesday at...
Forget about the United States of America; their interest in Somalia is not to arrest the plight of the suffering Somali people. Foremost, their goal is to defeat and crush the imagined al Qaeda element in the on-going civil...
Addis Ababa - In a studio littered with squeezed paint tubes and drab canvases, Dawit Abebe, one of the artists spearheading the revolution, gazes intently at his latest paintings that include nude portraits. In the olden days...
