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<title>Famine and the noisome beast in Ethiopia</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85967</link>
<description>While Ethiopia endures a devastating famine, Meles Zenawi's regime has been downplaying and double-talking around the crisis, writes Alemayehu G. Mariam.</description>
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<title>Six African countries top world hunger list</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163840/1/</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>US food aid versus cash</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85384</link>
<description>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</description>
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<title>Reduce meat not air travel</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85362</link>
<description>Owen Barder justifies his flying habit by offsetting the emissions against his &quot;no meat, no car&quot; lifestyle. Living in Ethiopia adds to his dilemmas. Owen Abroad</description>
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<title>Global green awards’ finalists named</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162857/1/</link>
<description>Innovations from Ethiopia, India, Nicaragua, the US and Uganda are named as finalists for this year's Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.</description>
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<title>Millions of hungry Ethiopians as aid effort stalls</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84380</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Ethiopia caught in middle of Horn emergency</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84302</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Horn of Africa hunger alert</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84190</link>
<description>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</description>
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<title>East Africa appeal launched</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84009</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Ethiopian military accused of war crimes</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83838</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Ethiopia child malnutrition warning</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83740</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Yemen's 'Invisible Problem'</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83407</link>
<description>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 &quot;least developed countries in the world,&quot; urges an international refugee agency.</description>
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<title>Ethiopia Launches Commodity Exchange Market</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/159777/1/</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Somalia Called 'World's Most Neglected Crisis'</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/159432/1/</link>
<description>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.</description>
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<title>Turning Trash into Cash</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83169</link>
<description>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.</description>
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