Full Coverage: Ethiopia

13.06.2008 In its battle against rebels in eastern Ethiopia’s Somali Region, Ethiopia's army has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to a leading rights organisation.

21.05.2008 Up to six million Ethiopian under-5s are living in impoverished, drought-prone districts and require urgent preventive health and nutrition interventions for severe malnutrition, the UN children's agency has warned.

16.04.2008 The international community and UN should do more to assist the hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians and Somalis who seek refuge in Yemen, one of the "least developed countries in the world," urges an international refugee agency.

15.04.2008 Addis Ababa is the site of a unique new marketplace where buyers and sellers can come together to trade and be assured of quality, delivery, and payment in goods like coffee, wheat, and maize.

04.04.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Apr 3 (OneWorld) - A leading humanitarian group is calling for the United Nations Security Council to take additional measures to help about 1 million Somalis who have been rendered homeless by the ongoing armed conflict in their country.

02.04.2008 Tafessu Jiru, a previously unemployed single mother living in Ethiopia's capital, now manages a small business that transforms organic waste, such as food scraps, into small fuel bricks for home cooking and heating.

28.02.2008 Global warming, swelling populations, and the increasing accessibility of arms are making water scarcity a growing source of conflict in Ethiopia and Kenya.

11.01.2008 One of many reasons Zeynu Ullu loves her position as a community health educator is that now, "All women in my community are informed about breastfeeding, immunization and sanitation."

28.12.2007 The United Nations peacekeeping mission monitoring the ceasefire between Ethiopia and Eritrea has called on both sides to show maximum restraint after a shooting incident in the border area where the two countries fought a two-year war that ended in 2000.

26.12.2007 The anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, detained in Ethiopia in 2005 and convicted on 24 December after a two-year trial, were today given prison sentences of two-and-a-half years each.

24.12.2007 Ethiopia's Federal High Court has convicted anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, the last remaining defendants in a trial in which they were charged along with 129 others.

18.12.2007 An international organization working on food security will provide Ethiopia with the world's first 'humanitarian' insurance and contingency plan to cover 6.7 million people, in case there is a drought comparable to the one that hit the Horn of Africa country in 2002-2003.

30.11.2007 The verdict in the case of Ethiopian anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, which was expected today, has been postponed yet again because one of the three judges has had to be replaced because of illness.

22.11.2007 The verdict in the case of Ethiopian anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and
Netsanet Demissie, which was expected today, has been postponed again because a judge is in hospital.

06.11.2007 War between Ethiopia and Eritrea could break out again within weeks, potentially throwing the entire Horn of Africa into new turmoil, a think tank warns.
From: International Crisis Group

03.11.2007 A grim deadline is approaching that marks the undermining of peacemaking in Africa, says Michela Wrong.
From New Statesman

29.09.2007 Fleeing violence, drought, and unemployment, a growing number of Somali and Ethiopian immigrants are attempting to escape across dangerous waters, often encountering death at the hands of smugglers, the sea, or Yemeni forces, reports the UN.

26.09.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (OneWorld) - International donors' apathy towards African flood victims is worrying numerous UN agencies involved in humanitarian relief operations.

06.09.2007 A medical humanitarian organization insists that Ethiopian authorities must grant it access to the conflict-ridden Somali region of the country, where the civilian population already struggles to cope with food insecurity and displacement.

20.08.2007 Two civil society activists remain in prison in Addis Ababa despite the release of 31 opposition supporters last week.