Full Coverage: Ethiopia

10.11.2009 While Ethiopia endures a devastating famine, Meles Zenawi's regime has been downplaying and double-talking around the crisis, writes Alemayehu G. Mariam.

14.10.2009 Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Eritrea, Sierra Leone Chad, and Ethiopia score worst in a Global Hunger Index, which links the problem to gender inequalities.

10.06.2009 Owen Barder quotes figures from Ethiopia to add pressure on the US to abandon its policy that food aid should be sourced from its own farmers. Owen Abroad

30.05.2009 Owen Barder justifies his flying habit by offsetting the emissions against his "no meat, no car" lifestyle. Living in Ethiopia adds to his dilemmas. Owen Abroad

06.05.2009 Innovations from Ethiopia, India, Nicaragua, the US and Uganda are named as finalists for this year's Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.

10.10.2008 The number of Ethiopians needing emergency assistance has leapt from 4.6 million to 6.4 million since June, according to the government and the UN, but cereal rations have been cut by a third because not enough food is reaching the country.

23.09.2008 The World Food Programme appeals for $460 million to feed 9.6 million hungry people affected by drought and high food prices in Ethiopia through to March next year.

01.09.2008 Poor rains in much of the Horn of Africa in the normally wet March-to-May period, compounded by high food and fuel prices, mean that 14.5 million people in five countries need food assistance, warns the UN.
+ Africa droughts
+ Top UN relief official assesses drought-stricken areas

24.07.2008 Millions of people in East Africa are facing a humanitarian crisis driven by drought, conflict, and rising global food prices, says an international charity as it launches a fund-raising appeal.

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.