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- ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: Urgent need for dialoque after departure of UNMEE, says analyst.
NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA, 1 August (IRIN) - Tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea are unlikely to escalate immediately following the departure of UN peacekeepers, but a mechanism should be found to quickly engage the two neighbours, an analyst said. - SOMALIA: IDPs out of food, more clashes in Beletweyne
Clashes between insurgents and government troops in Beletweyne, Hiiraan region of central Somalia, have created serious food scarcities in the town, hitting thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) hardest, locals said. - ETHIOPIA: Outlook bleak for several regions as crops fail.
The humanitarian situation in Ethiopia's regions of Afar, Amhara, Somali and Tigray is likely to deteriorate because seasonal crops have failed and livestock numbers have fallen, according to preliminary findings of the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency led multi-agency mission. - ADDIS ABEBA. DONOR PLEDGES TO COVER FOOD AND NON FOOD INSUFFICIENT TO TACKLE THE MASSIV E FOOD SHORTAGES THE COUNTRY IS FACING
"Until now we have got US$160 million in pledges," Deputy Prime Minister Addisu Legese said. "[But] we need $430 million," the official, who recently visited some of the most affected areas, added. - SOMALIA: Thousands displaced following attack on central town
Officials in Guri-Eil town in Galgadud region have appealed for urgent help for thousands of people displaced after fighting between Ethiopian troops and insurgents over the weekend. - DJIBOUTI : Almost half of the population facing food shortage
A significant percentage of Djibouti's population could face food shortages due to drought, rising prices with declining remittances, and high levels of livestock deaths, an early warning information service has warned. - ETHIOPIA : Malnutrition increasing in southern regions.
The humanitarian situation in southern Ethiopia is becoming more critical, with increasing malnutrition being reported among young children in the past few weeks, a senior UN official said. - SOMALIA : Appeal for food aid as two IDP children die in Beletweyne.
Officials in the town of Beletweyne in Hiiraan region, central Somalia, have appealed for urgent help for thousands of internally displaced persons, saying they had run out of food. - SUDAN: Concerns rising over Darfur restrictions
On a UN map of Darfur released this month, a patchwork of yellow and orange denotes locations with little or no humanitarian access. Compared with maps of previous years, vast new regions are labelled off-limits. - ETHIOPIA:
NAIROBI, 7 February (IRIN) - Ethiopia experienced a record harvest during the meher season that runs from June and October but pockets of poor food production across the country have still left millions of people needing food assistance, according to a food security update. - SOMALIA : Prime Minister to name new, leaner cabinet.
NAIROBI, 17 December (IRIN) - Somalia's new prime minister Nur Hassan Hussein has dismissed his government just three weeks after its formation in favour of a "small but effective cabinet". - ETHIOPIA : Encouraging Farmers to boost productivity.
TIJO, 17 October (IRIN) - Five years ago, Wegene Abebe was just another local peasant eking out a living in Tijo, 220km southeast of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa; today he is a prominent farmer with a steady income. It all started when 38-year-old Wegene was approached by government agricultural experts and recommended improved seed. Although Wegene did not own a piece of land, he was offered two hectares after a preliminary assessment demonstrated his potential. - ERITREA: Interview - President says border issues
ASMARA, 12 October (IRIN) - IRIN interviewed President Isaias Afewerki in Asmara, on 1 October. Eritrea and the Horn of Africa in general remain chronically vulnerable in humanitarian terms due to drought, conflict and poverty. - ETHIOPIA: Millennium celebrations to target malaria control
ADDIS ABABA, 21 August (IRIN) - Ethiopia will distribute 20 million free treated mosquito bed nets as part of campaign that will culminate with the country's Millennium celebrations in September. - SOMALIA: Displaced Somalis living rough near Kenyan border
NAIROBI, 19 April (IRIN) - At least 15,000 Somalis who fled violence in the capital, Mogadishu, are facing disease and uncertainty in Dobley town, near the Kenyan border, local sources told IRIN on Thursday. - ETHIOPIA: Training community workers to sustain pastoralist livelihoods
ADAMA, 17 April (IRIN) - Jemal Adem, a 20-year-old pastoralist, has spent every night in the last seven months away from home, often sleeping on dusty ground, and always surrounded by his camels. - ETHIOPIA: Flash flood damages houses in Dire Dawa
Several houses were damaged by flood waters in the eastern Ethiopian town of Dire Dawa, 515 km from the capital of Addis Ababa, after heavy rains pounded the area, officials said on Thursday. "The morning floods swept over the Addis Ketema and Decahtu suburbs," said Binyam Fikru, public relations officer at Dire Dawa police station. There were no reports of casualties, although the flooding was quite intense. - ETHIOPIA: making the most of emergency aid.
ADDIS ABABA, 8 March (IRIN) - The expectation that Ethiopia will enjoy a bumper food harvest this year has led the government and its humanitarian partners to adopt a new policy towards emergency needs and allocating resources. - PEANUT PRODUCT TO COMBAT CHILD MALNUTRITION
ADDIS ABABA, 27 February (IRIN) - The Hilina factory in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, is to start producing a peanut product to prevent malnutrition in children. - ETHIOPIA: Acute watery diarrhoea claims 279 lives.
Acute watery diarrhoea has continued to spread alarmingly in Ethiopia, with the death toll rising to 279 and 29,880 people infected, despite efforts by the government and humanitarian agencies to control the epidemic since April, the United Nations humanitarian agency said on Wednesday. - ETHIOPIA-ERITREA ; Annan recommends extending UNMEE mandate
NAIROBI, 27 September (IRIN) - The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has recommended a six-month extension to the mandate of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), but warned that arrests, detentions and expulsions of mission staff by Eritrean authorities were "particularly troubling". - ETHIOPIA - Diarrhoew death toll rises to 182
NAIROBI, 19 September (IRIN) - Another 49 people have died within a week of acute watery diarrhoea in Ethiopia, raising the death toll since the disease broke out in April to 182, with almost 20,000 others infected, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Tuesday. - ETHIOPIA - Fears of more flooting
NAIROBI, 19 September (IRIN) - The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has warned of further flooding across Ethiopia in coming months after the country experienced the worst floods in its history last month. At least 647 people died and thousands were made homeless. - WATERY DIARRHOEA SPREADS, DEATH TOLL UP TO 125
ADDIS ABABA, 4 September (IRIN) - The death toll from an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea in Ethiopia has risen to 125, the country's health ministry reported. The spread of the disease had been exacerbated by massive flooding last month, it added. - AFRICA BEARS THE BRUNT OF GLOBAL TB INFECTIONS
ADDIS ABABA, 30 August (IRIN) - Twenty-five percent of global tuberculosis cases occur in Africa although the continent's population comprises only 11 percent of the world's total, the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy to Stop Tuberculosis (TB), Jorge Sampaio, said on Wednesday, urging aid donors to increase their support for projects to combat the disease. - HORN OF AFRICA: Appeal for assistance as flood toll rises
ADDIS ABABA, 17 August (IRIN) - Ethiopia has asked for international assistance to contain the effects of flooding as hundreds of people are reported dead or missing, and neighbouring Eritrea reported damage to about 1,000 homes. - ETHIOPIA : WAITING TO BURY THE DEAD
DIRE DAWA, 11 August (IRIN) - Every time word spread through Dire Dawa town that the police had found more bodies, Zeituna Hassen rushed to the morgue at Dil Chora hospital to search for her brother. - ETHIOPIA : AGENCIES SCRAMBLE TO GET AID TO DIRE DAWA.
NAIROBI, 10 August (IRIN) - Humanitarian agencies are sending aid to thousands of people made homeless by flash floods in the southern Ethiopian city of Dire Dawa but more help is still needed, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned on Thursday. - ETHIOPIA-DIRE DAWA
DIRE DAWA, 9 August (IRIN) - Two days after the flood, Hailat Gebreamelak was still in shock. Standing in front of the morgue, waiting to identify a dead relative, his hands shook. - More than 190 people have been confirmed dead after heavy rains in Dire Dawa
ADDIS ABABA, 7 August (IRIN) - More than 190 people have been confirmed dead after heavy rains in Dire Dawa, 525 km east of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, caused the Dechatu river to burst its banks, the police said on Monday. It was feared more bodies would be recovered. - ETHIOPIA. Incresed efforts to prevent blindness
Former US President Bill Clinton (middle) at a health centre during his recent visit to Ethiopia. ADDIS ABABA, 21 Jul 2006 (IRIN) - The Ethiopian government is to increase efforts to prevent and treat blindness, which afflicts a large number of people across the country, said Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. - WORLD BANK PLEDGES CONTINUED SUPPORT
ETHIOPIA: The World Bank will continue supporting Ethiopia's development efforts, President Paul Wolfowitz said on Wednesday, expressing confidence that the country was recovering from the political upheaval that caused major donors to suspend direct budgetary support last year. - ETHIOPIA: Fourteen dead as diarrhoea hits Oromiya region
An outbreak of acute diarrhoea has claimed the lives of 14 people in the Oromiya region of southern Ethiopia, where more than 530 cases of the disease have been reported in the past two weeks, a United Nations agency said. - DJIBOUTI - Drought-affected pastoralists facing tough times
NAIROBI, 30 June (IRIN) - Cattle farmers in Djibouti are facing an uncertain future due to continuing drought conditions and a lack of long-term planning for pastoralists in the Horn of Africa state, an early warning agency said. - ERITREA- Measles vaccination campaign launched.
NAIROBI, 30 June (IRIN) - A nationwide measles vaccination campaign aimed at children aged 6-months to five-years against has been launched in Eritrea, the health ministry has announced. - ETHIOPIA - Bunper crop harvest expected next year.
Ethiopians should expect a bumper crop harvest next year due to good rains and an improved use of fertilizers, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has promised. - ETHIOPIA - Avain flu contingency plan approved.
Ethiopia's national avian flu coordination committee has approved a multi-million dollar contingency plan to strengthen preparedness in the event of the disease spreading to the Horn of Africa country. - TESTIMONIES FROM ETHIOPIANS
NAIROBI, 14 June (IRIN) - Mohamed, 27, former soldier, from Ethiopia - TESTOMONIES FROM SOMALIA
NAIROBI, 14 June (IRIN) - With life in Somalia offering so little comfort and hope, some migrants risk crossing the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, not just once, but time and time again. More than 5,000 Somalis registered as refugees in Yemen in the first four months of 2006, and the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) believes many more travelled on, making their way to Saudi Arabia. - TRAGIC CARGO PART TWO.
NAIROBI, 14 June (IRIN) - Tragic Cargo, Part Two: This is the second part of a two-part Special Report by IRIN on the Somali and Ethiopian migrants who undertake a treacherous journey in small fishing boats from the tip of the Horn of Africa to the Arabian peninsula - WATERY DIARRHOEA CASES ON THE RISE
ETHIOPIA: Watery diarrhoea cases on the rise Watery diarrhoea has claimed the lives of 10 people and infected more than 1,400 others in the Gambella regional state in western Ethiopia since 15 April, said Turuwork Tafesse, director of disease surveillance for the country?s health ministry. - SOMALIA. APPEAL LAUNCHED TO STOP SPREAD OF POLIO.
Health officials have warned that ongoing vaccination campaigns in Somalia, which has seen 202 children infected with polio since July 2005, must be sustained to prevent the disease spreading to neighbouring countries. - NEW STRAW TO KILL DISEASE AS YOU DRINK.
BBC NEWS 04 MAY 2006 - Horn of Africa Invest in development to reduce drought vulnerability - UN envoy
ADDIS ABABA, 2 May (IRIN) - In a pledge of continued cooperation between his country and Africa, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called for reforms to the United Nations Security Council to make it more representative of member states. - ETHIOPIA launches anti-malaria plan
Ethiopia has launched a five-year malaria treatment and prevention plan at cost of US $447 million in an effort to lessen the burden of the disease, one of the leading causes of illness and death in the Horn of Africa country, the health ministry has said. - SOMALIA : NEW MALARIA THERAPY INTRODUCED
A new malaria treatment, artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), is being introduced in Somalia to combat the disease, one of the leading causes of death among children and women in the Horn of Africa country, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. - SOMALIA : SEVEN KILLED.
At least seven people were killed and scores wounded as rival armed groups fought on Sunday in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, displacing dozens of families. - ERITREA: UN envoy urges stronger links between Govt, agencies.
The United Nations special humanitarian envoy for the Horn of Africa, Kjell Magne Bondevik, has called for the strengthening of cooperation between the Eritrean government and humanitarian organisations in a bid to improve food security in the Horn of Africa country, one of several in the region affected by drought. - ANTI-POLIO CAMPAIGN
ETHIOPIA: Anti-polio campaign targets five million children - vaccin against measles
TUKA, 13 Apr 2006 (IRIN) - Diramu Arero had waited since early morning along with dozens of other mothers and their babies in front of Tuka's small health centre in drought-stricken southern Ethiopia to get her child vaccinated against measles. - Funding shortfalls could worsen humanitarian situation
ADDIS ABABA, 10 April (IRIN) - The Ethiopian government and humanitarian organisations have expressed concern about the slow donor response to the drought crisis in the Horn of Africa nation, where nutrition and water needs are severely underfunded. - UNMEE ENVOY LEAVES. NEW FORCE COOMANDER APPOINTED.
ERITREA-ETHIOPIA: The top United Nations envoy to Ethiopia and Eritrea expressed both regret and determination in his farewell remarks on Thursday. "I leave with sadness that the border has not been demarcated, but with pride that I have led this mission for five-and-a-half years, even under difficult circumstances," said Legwaila Joseph Legwaila, the outgoing special representative of the Secretary-General at the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE). - FIRST TWO PRIVATE RADIO STATIONS
ETHIOPIA: Gov't licenses first two private radio stations - SOMALIA - DISPLACED FAMILIES.
SOMALIA: Displaced families in Mogadishu in dire conditions - rights group - DEAD BIRDS TEST NEGATIVE FOR H5N1 VIRUS
ETHIOPIA: ADDIS ABABA, 6 April (IRIN) - Final laboratory tests on birds suspected of having died of the H5N1 avian flu virus in Ethiopia in March are negative, according to health officials. - IT IS NOT THE RAINS IN ETHIOPIA YOU NEED TO WORRY ABOUT,BUT WHETHER IT RAINS IN AMERICA OR CANADA.
ETHIOPIA: Struggling to end food aid dependency - ETHIOPIA. SOUTHEASTERN REGION RAVAGED BY DROUGHT
DENAN, 20 January (IRIN) - For a two-year-old child, Bishir Arab should be twice his weight, but severe malnutrition has seen his body weight plummet to just six kilogrammes. - UK IMPOSES ETHIOPIAN AID SACTION
Clashes between police and protesters followed last year's polls The UK has ended unconditional aid to the Ethiopian government over concerns about its commitment to human rights. All aid will now be earmarked for specific projects, UK Development Minister Hilary Benn announced on a visit to Ethiopia. - SOMALI GOVERNMENT SET TO RELOCATE.
Somali government set to relocate The speaker and president are continuing in talks in Yemen Somalia's interim government is close to agreeing to relocate to the capital, at talks with rivals in Yemen. The president and speaker, who have been in dispute over the issue, initialled an agreement which could be finalised in Yemen on Wednesday. - ETHIOPIA : Halt in budget support will effect the poor, minister says.
U N I T E D N A T I O N S Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) - 1995-2005 ten years serving the humanitarian community - DJIBOUTI : Food insecurity worsens as dry spell peersists.
The delayed onset of the October-February rainy season in Djibouti has led to worsening food insecurity in pastoral areas due to lack of pasture and water in the coastal dry period grazing areas, a famine alert agency has reported. - ETHIOPIA - Donors withold budget support to government.
Donors have put on hold US $375 million in budget support to the Ethiopian government because of a crackdown on opposition supporters, development officials said Thursday. They said the money would be diverted to other programmes in the country. - ETHIOPIA : A million people in southeast face extreme food insecurfity.
At least one million people in southeastern Ethiopia are facing extreme food insecurity following a prolonged drought, a famine early warning agency reported on Thursday, saying the crisis had sparked conflicts over scarce water and pasture. - ETHIOPIA THREATENED WITH AID CUTS
Many of the country's opposition leaders are now in jail Western donors are considering withholding millions of dollars of aid to Ethiopia, after a recent crackdown on the opposition and the press. The sum of $375m in direct funding for Ethiopian government programmes is reported to be under review. - SOMALIA : COUGHT IN THE STORM
SPECIAL NEWS FROM : MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERS. - BBC NEWS. ETHIOPIA THREATENED WITH AID CUTS.
Many of the country's opposition leaders are now in jail Western donors are considering withholding millions of dollars of aid to Ethiopia, after a recent crackdown on the opposition and the press. The sum of $375m in direct funding for Ethiopian government programmes is reported to be under review. - AFRICA AIDS ORPHANS
Africa Aids orphans 'may top 18m' Sub-Saharan Africa will be the main focus of the campaign UN charity Unicef says 18 million children in sub-Saharan Africa could be orphaned by Aids by the end of 2010. It also says that every minute, a child is infected with HIV and another child dies from an Aids-related illness. - MAIN OPPOSITION COALITION MERGES TO FORM PARTY.
The four parties that make up Ethiopia's largest opposition alliance, the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) have merged to form one party, an official of the coalition said on Thursday. - ETHIOPIA. Six million at risk of Malaria Epidemic.
NAIROBI, 22 September (IRIN) - Some six million Ethiopians, most of them children, are threatened by a potential malaria epidemic, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) cautioned. - HORN OF AFRICA CRISIS. Polio Vaccintion campaign targets 34 millions kids
NAIROBI, 14 September (IRIN) - The UN-backed Global Polio Eradication Initiative has launched a new campaign to vaccinate more than 34 million children in the Horn of Africa against the polio virus amid concern that the crippling disease was re-emerging in the region. - AKIS DRINK
How I look after my Health - UN envoy calls for greater flexibility in providing AID
ADDIS ABABA, 29 August (IRIN) - Greater flexibility in providing aid to Ethiopia is needed to tackle widespread hunger and underdevelopment in the region, the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Humanitarian Crisis in the Horn of Africa, Martti Ahtisaari, said on Sunday. - HORN OF AFRICA CRISIS
NAIROBI, 29 August (IRIN) - Some 90,000 Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees living in eastern Sudan could go hungry unless more money is found to fill a 47-percent funding gap in a feeding programme for them, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. - ETHIOPIA. Three million in need of emergency food Aid - WFP -
ADDIS ABABA, 25 August (IRIN) - More than three million Ethiopians face food shortages this year unless they receive emergency food aid, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. - HORN OF AFRICA CRISIS
ADDIS ABABA, 23 August (IRIN) - The UN Special Envoy for the Humanitarian Crisis in the Horn of Africa, Martti Ahtisaari, began an eight day visit to the region on Monday to assess prospects for long-term food security. - DJIBOUTI- Precarious food situation in rutal areas
NAIROBI, 19 August (IRIN) - The food situation in rural areas of Djibouti is precarious and there is a need to accelerate emergency food distribution in the tiny Horn of Africa country, an early warning network has reported. - ASMARA- NATURAL DISASTERS STRIKE COMMUNITIES
ASMARA, 27 July (IRIN) - Of all the natural disasters that strike communities and environments, a drought can be the most devastating. If it develops into a full-blown famine or forces people to leave their homes or become dependent on external food aid, drought becomes a humanitarian crisis. - OGADEN REGION - SERIES OF GRENADE ATTACKS
ADDIS ABABA, 26 July (IRIN) - A series of grenade attacks on Sunday that killed five people in Ethiopia's Somali region was designed to disrupt forthcoming elections there, officials said. - OGADEN REBEL GROUP OFFERS TO END WAR.
An armed rebel group waging a bloody guerrilla war in lawless eastern Ethiopia on Tuesday offered a truce to end its decade-old fight against the government. The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) offered peace talks in a neutral country to try to bring an end to the fighting that has plagued this arid region. The decision was announced in a statement following an exchange of letters between Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and Ogadeni clan elders in an attempt to secure peace in one of the poorest and most remote parts of the country. - Waiting for election results
ADDIS ABABA, 22 July (IRIN) - Two months after more than 25 million Ethiopians went to the polls in the country's third ever national election on 15 May, it is still not clear who won or lost the ballot. - SOMALIA. Houses to be built for TSUNAMI survivors
SOMALIA: Houses to be built for tsunami survivors - ERITREA- OXFAM GIVING SEEDS AND TOOLS TO HOUSEHOLD
1 - ERITREA: Oxfam giving seeds and tools to households - SOMALIA- Tsunami survivors need help to overcome the trauma.
HAFUN PENINSULA, 28 January (IRIN) - Nurfo Ibrahim Mudey, a 27-year-old widow and mother of four, is still unable to go to the shore where her home once stood in the Somali hamlet of Hafun, destroyed by the Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December. Her husband and her six-month-old baby drowned when the surging waves swamped their house. - Mr Blair launches appeal for Africa
U2 singer Bono (right) joined Mr Blair to plead Africa's case Africa's poverty is "a scar on the conscience of the world", UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He criticised global leaders for neglecting Africa, saying there would be an outcry if another part of the world was to suffer similar problems. - UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and rock star Bon joined forces an attempt to focus the world spotlight on the plight of Africa
DAVOS, Switzerland -- UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and rock star Bono joined forces Thursday in Davos an attempt to focus the world spotlight on the plight of Africa. - AFAR REGIONS - DROUGHT INCREASING LIVESTGOCK DEATHS.
Increasing livestock deaths are threatening the livelihood of nomadic pastoralists in Ethiopia's drought-hit Afar region, the UN and aid agencies said on Tuesday. - THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY THE TSUNAMI HAD ALREADY BEEN DISPLACED.
GARACAD, 20 January (IRIN) - Thousands of people affected by the tsunami in Somalia had already been displaced by years of successive drought from their areas of origin and had moved to the coastal areas in search of opportunities, a report released by the Somali government and various agencies said. - SOMALIA-THOUSANDS OF TSUNAMI SURNIVIVORS WERE DISPLACED PEOPLE.
GARACAD, 20 January (IRIN) - Thousands of people affected by the tsunami in Somalia had already been displaced by years of successive drought from their areas of origin and had moved to the coastal areas in search of opportunities, a report released by the Somali government and various agencies said. - MR BLAIR TO MAKE TSUNAMI STATEMENT
UK soldiers have been clearing up debris in Sri Lanka and elsewhere Prime Minister Tony Blair is to make a statement to the Commons on the Asian tsunami, including an update on the British death toll. His statement to MPs will also include details of the UK's contribution to the relief effort so far. - ETHIOPIAN ORPHANS
ADDIS ABABA, 10 January (IRIN) - Wrapped in a bundle of warm blankets and lucky to be alive, four-month-old Thomas Bekele still faces a precarious future. - SOMAILA - SHELTER MATERIALS BEING SENT TO TSUMANI AFFACTED AREAS.
NAIROBI, 7 January (IRIN) - The UN refugee agency is to ship a consignment of shelter materials and other non-food items this weekend to people left homeless in Somalia by the tsunami that also wreaked havoc in South Asia on 26 December. - TSUNAMI EFFECTS ON SOMALIA
The UN has launched a flash inter-agency appeal for more than US $10 million dollars to help thousands of people in Somalia who were affected by the tsunami that devastated areas of South Asia and swamped some Indian Ocean coastal areas on 26 December. - TSUNAMI DEVASTES SOMALI ISLAND
SOMALIA: 130 reported killed over 15,000 affected and in urgent needs . - ERITREA CALLED ETHIOPIA TO COMPLY WITH BORDERS RULING.
NAIROBI, 15 December (IRIN) - Eritrea has called on Ethiopia to abide by the ruling of an independent commission that delineated their disputed border in 2002 and urged the international community to help secure peace and stability in the Horn of Africa. - POWER LINK TO BOOST ELECTRICITY SUPPLY
ADDIS ABABA, 14 December (IRIN) - Ethiopia and Djibouti are to link up their power generation in a bid to boost electricity access in both countries using loans worth US $32 million and $27 million respectively, the African Development Fund (ADF) said on Monday. - GERMAN PRESIDENT MAKES A PLEA FOR PEACE
ADDIS ABABA, 13 December (IRIN) - German President Horst Kohler made an impassioned plea on Monday for peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea, saying neither of the two countries could afford another war over their unresolved border dispute. - FISTULA HOSPITAL
ADDIS ABABA FISTULA HOSPITAL - OLD ALPHABET ADAPTED FOR MODERN USE IN TECHNOLOGY.
ADDIS ABABA, 11 November (IRIN) - One of the world's oldest living alphabets could make its debut soon on mobile phones, Ethiopian scientists said on Thursday. In groundbreaking research, the ancient script of Ethiopic, which dates back to the fourth century, has been adapted so it can be used for SMS text messaging. - POTENTIAL FAMINE IN 2005
ADDIS ABABA, 2 November (IRIN) - A government agency warned of a "potential famine" in Ethiopia during 2005, saying food shortages could affect up to 12 million people and the crisis, which could hit the country by the end of 2004, has worsened due to inadequate rainfall and a gradual loss of farmers' assets. - FISTULA HOSPITAL - OCTOBER 2004
FISTULA HOSPITAL ADDIS ABABA - WORLD BANK OFFICIAL WARNS OVER OIL PRICES
A senior World Bank official warned on Tuesday of the "substantial" impact of continuing high oil prices on developing countries. Francois Bourguignon, the bank's chief economist, said that precious foreign exchange reserves were being depleted by as much as one third and families were paying more for goods. - BRITISH PRIME MINSTER IN ADDIS ABABA
ADDIS ABABA, 11 October (IRIN) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Friday the time for excuses on Africa was over, adding that Africa must be pushed to the top of the world's agenda. - UNMEE DIRECT FLIGHTS BETWEEN ADDIS ABABA & ASMARA
ADDIS ABABA, 20 August (IRIN) - The Ethiopian government has allowed the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) to operate direct flights between Addis Ababa and Asmara, lifting a ban that was put in place after the border war between the two countries ended in 2000. - URGENT APPEAL FOR £ 3,000
This is an URGENT appeal to raise £ 3,000 to ship ONE container with Medical equipment to Ethiopia. - FISTULA HOSPITAL JULY 2004
FISTULA HOSPITAL ADDIS ABABA - RAINFALL, TIMELY FOOD AID DELIVERIES IMPROVE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION
NAIROBI, 20 July (IRIN) - Recent rainfall and increased distribution of aid have improved the immediate humanitarian situation in the country, but additional pledges are still required to cover an 11 percent food shortfall in the June-December period, a famine alert network has reported. - ANNAN CALLS FOR
ADDIS ABABA, 12 July (IRIN) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told Ethiopia and Eritrea that "sober choices" must be made if they are to end their potentially dangerous stalemate. In his latest report to the UN Security Council on the progress of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), Annan said the four-year-old peace process was unlikely to succeed without flexibility from both sides. - UNPRECEDENTED ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURE GROWTH REPORTED FOR 2003/2004
ADDIS ABABA, 12 July (IRIN) - Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Friday that Ethiopia enjoyed unprecedented economic and agricultural growth over the past 11 months. Presenting his annual progress report for 2003/2004 to parliament, he said the economy had grown by 11.6 percent, and agriculture by nearly 20 percent. - BORDER SITUATION IMROVING
ADDIS ABABA, 7 July (IRIN) - The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) has said that incidents along the 1,000-km common border have declined and the situation in the area is calm. - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan visit t
ADDIS ABABA, 2 July (IRIN) - The proposed visit to Eritrea by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan this weekend should have a positive impact on the stalled peace process with Ethiopia, UN officials said on Thursday. - Major Obstacles
to Ending Conflict
ADDIS ABABA, 28 June (IRIN) - The commissioner of the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) has spelt out four major obstacles to ending conflict on the continent. - POTENTIAL FOR INVESTMENT DESPITE WIDESPREAD POVERTY.
ADDIS ABABA, 24 June (IRIN) - Ethiopia is one of the poorest nations on earth, but it has the potential to be a land of opportunity for investors and businesses, analysts say. - LIKELY FOOD SHORTAGE REPORTED.
ADDIS ABABA, 22 June (IRIN) - Unless donors provide additional food aid to Ethiopia, there could be shortages as early as July when the "hungry season" that precedes the November-December harvest starts, the USAID-funded Famine Early Warning Network (FEWS Net) reported. - SMALL FARMERS BATTLING POVERTY
ADDIS ABABA, 10 June (IRIN) - Cooperatives are playing a key role in helping impoverished Ethiopian farmers escape from the cycle of poverty, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said on Wednesday. - FISTULA HOSPITAL - APRIL 2004
ADDIS ABABA FISTULA HOSPITAL - WORLD BANK
ETHIOPIA: World Bank announces US $3.3 billion debt relief under HIPC - SITUATION IN SOMALI REGION DETERIORATING.
ADDIS ABABA, 19 March (IRIN) - Fears are mounting for the welfare of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in eastern Ethiopia, the United Nations warned on Friday. Disease, lack of food and dwindling water supplies are hitting the IDPs, the UN said in a special alert. - IRIN Interview with US Ambassador. Aurelia Brazeal
ADDIS ABABA, 5 March (IRIN) - Aurelia Brazeal is the US ambassador to Ethiopia. Last year the US provided over US $500 million in food relief for 14 million people facing starvation in Ethiopia. In an interview, she told IRIN that in the wake of that enormous crisis - an emergency she said was not yet over - the US would now begin refocusing on the country's democratic and economic development. - US Ambassador - Calls for Telecommunication and Banking Reforms
ADDIS ABABA, 4 March (IRIN) - Ethiopia must "get trade going" and get rid of obstacles precluding overseas businesses from investing in the country, the US ambassador urged on Wednesday. Ambassador Aurelia Brazeal said reforms in the country's telecommunications and the banking sectors were vital as a means of stimulating foreign investment. - AFRICA : Conference delegates in Ethiopia call for end to FGM
ADDIS ABABA, 6 February (IRIN) - African governments faced renewed demands on Friday to introduce and enforce tough laws to stamp out female genital mutilation (FGM) and protect the women of their countries. Leading health and human rights experts on the continent called for legislation to end the practice to which 2 million African women and girls in 28 countries are subjected every year. - ETHIOPIA & ERITREA, : END THE IMPASSE, BRITISH ENVOY URGES.
ADDIS ABABA, 20 January (IRIN) - Ethiopia and Eritrea have been warned that the international community is gradually running out of patience with their stalled three-year-old peace process. - ETHIOPIAN WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV
ETHIOPIA: New film depicts the suffering of women living with HIV - SEASONS GREETINGS
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West 'risks new Ethiopia famine' By Alex Kirby BBC News Online environment correspondent in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - COUNTRY PROFILE : ETHIOPIA
Ethiopia is Africa's oldest independent country and, with the exception of a five-year occupation by Mussolini's Italy, has never been colonised. - SEASONS GREERINGS
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ADDIS ABABA, 10 December (IRIN) - Seven million Ethiopians could go hungry next year without international aid to make up a chronic food shortfall, the government warned on Wednesday. - WFP APPEALS FOR FOOD FOR REFUGEES
ADDIS ABABA, 25 November (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of refugees in Ethiopia face severe food shortages early next year, the UN's World Food Programme warned on Tuesday. - ERITREA-ETHIOPIA & ASSAB
ASSAB, 20 November (IRIN) - The straight ribbon of road from the Eritrean port city of Assab to Bure, just over the border in Ethiopia, is deserted. Save for a few camels and their Afar herdsmen, the only moving objects are the patrol cars of UN peacekeepers. - ETHIOPIA. AN OTHER DROUGHT LOOMS.
ADDIS ABABA, 12 November (IRIN) - Water shortages in eastern and southern Ethiopia are reaching "emergency proportions" as a result of failed rains, according to the Ethiopian government's federal early warning system (EWS), based in the capital, Addis Ababa. (inserting "eastern and southern") - BRITISH GOVERNMENT PLEDGES US $ 2.5 TO FIGHT
ADDIS ABABA, 12 November (IRIN) - The British government pledged US $2.5 million on Wednesday to combat a massive malaria epidemic threatening 15 million people in Ethiopia. The funding follows an emergency appeal by the UN for $5 million to provide drugs and mosquito nets for affected regions. - IRIN interview with UN Special Envoy Martii Ahtisaari.
ADDIS ABABA, 10 November (IRIN) - Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari is the United Nations Special Envoy for the Humanitarian Crisis in the Horn of Africa. During a six-day visit to drought-stricken Ethiopia and Eritrea, where 15 million people are facing starvation, he told IRIN that the international community should not overload with too many development initiatives a new five-year food coalition strategy aimed at ending food-aid dependency. - BLINDNESS, MALARIA, FAMINE & POVERTY.
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ADDIS ABABA, 6 October (IRIN) - A holy book looted from Ethiopia by British troops more than a century ago was back home and on public display for the first time on Saturday. - ANTI MALARIA MEDICINES
4 - ETHIOPIA: Vital medicines arrive to combat malaria - Ethiopians urged to eat RICE
ADDIS ABABA, 25 September (IRIN) - Ethiopians should consider changing their eating habits as part of the fight against repeated famines that have hit the nation, the United Nations said on Wednesday. - Eritrea-Ethiopia:End
ADDIS ABABA, 10 September (IRIN) - The peace process between Ethiopia and Eritrea must not "lose momentum" in the crucial run-up to the demarcation of their common border, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged. In his latest report on both countries, he also called on them to end their "cold peace" and take advantage of the economic potential normal relations would offer. - USA EMBASSY ADDIS ABABA : LAUNCHED OF APPEAL
ADDIS ABABA, 10 September (IRIN) - The United States embassy in Addis Ababa launched on Monday a small grants scheme worth $360,000 to support human rights organisations in Ethiopia. - URGENT APPEAL
Appeal to target:- BLINDNESS - over 900,000 are suffering in Ethiopia only. 80% could have been saved.
- MALARIA - 3rd big killer in Ethiopia only.
- WATER PURIFICATION KITS - To tackle blindness & Malaria.
- SMALL-SCALE FARMING - To tackle blindness & famine.
- The progress of Polio vacinnation
ADDIS ABABA, 5 September (IRIN) - Almost a million children are being vaccinated in Ethiopia as part of the global polio eradication campaign which aims to eliminate the crippling disease by 2005. - Chronic food shortage- Major turning point
ADDIS ABABA, 1 September (IRIN) - Ethiopia has reached a "major turning point" in tackling its chronic food shortages, the head of the United Nations in the country stated on Monday. - Malaria worsening due to drug resistance
The fight against a growing malaria epidemic in Ethiopia is being hampered because of a resistance to available drugs, humanitarian agencies warned on Monday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned that the parasite's resistance was "aggravating the epidemic and causing a high death toll". Malaria is already the third biggest killer in Ethiopia with some 100,000 lives claimed each year. More than 40 million people are at risk. But UN agencies also warned that a slow response to "unexpected" emergency needs and a "lack of clarity" on who should have access to free drugs were also exacerbating the crisis. - Water distribution aims to combat disease
Vital water purifying equipment is being distributed in Ethiopia's drought-stricken areas to combat the growing threat of water-borne diseases, the United Nations said on Monday. The water supplies will be targeted at women and children in eight hard-hit areas around the country, according to the UN's Children's Fund (UNICEF). "This contribution is particularly significant as safe water is vital to prevent the outbreak of waterborne diseases," said UNICEF head Bjorn Ljungqvist. UNICEF estimates some 4.2 million people are in urgent need of clean, safe water. - EMERGENCY FOOD ARRIVING VIA BERBERA
Emergency food aid to tackle Ethiopia's devastating famine is being shipped in through the Somaliland port of Berbera, officials said on Monday. - HIV/AIDS
ADDIS ABABA, 15 August (IRIN) - Ethiopia must radically expand the country 's voluntary testing centres if it is to curb the AIDS scourge, a conference heard on Friday. - Families unwilling to go home until border marked.
ADDIS ABABA, 5 August (IRIN) - Families displaced during the Ethiopia-Eritrea war are still not returning home because of the danger of landmines and the impending demarcation of the border. - Feares if Malaria Epidemic.
ADDIS ABABA, 5 August (IRIN) - Fears are mounting of a major malaria epidemic in Ethiopia, officials at the ministry of health told IRIN on Tuesday. - Still struggling to escape the grip of famine.
ADDIS ABABA, 5 August (IRIN) - Ethiopia is still struggling to escape the grip of famine with the numbers in need increasing by more than half a million people, according to a government-led assessment. - Anti-AIDS drugs
ADDIS ABABA, 4 August (IRIN) - For Sister Tibebe Maco there is little reason to note, let alone celebrate, the first distribution of drugs to treat victims of the AIDS pandemic in Ethiopia. - WFP appeals for aid to feed Somali refugees in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, 31 Jul 2003 (IRIN) - Food for tens of thousands of refugees in Ethiopia will run out in three months unless urgently needed supplies are provided, the UN’s World Food Programme warned on Thursday. - Millions of Ethiopians are at risk of starvation
Millions of Ethiopians are at risk of starvation because of a funding shortfall for food aid, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday. - Sir Bob Geldof returns to the impoverished country as it stands on the brink of yet another disaster
Twenty years ago he helped raise US $60 million to fight the devastating famine that hit Ethiopia. The world vowed never to let it happen again. On Monday, Sir Bob Geldof returns to the impoverished country as it stands on the brink of yet another disaster, and millions once again face starvation. - Appeal for more aid
The UN and the Ethiopian government have appealed for more aid to address the humanitarian crisis in the country. - Appeal for non-food aid
ADDIS ABABA, 5 September (IRIN) - Ethiopia on Friday appealed for US $40 million to help fight the devastating crisis which has affected 13.2 million people in the impoverished, drought-stricken country. - Malnutrition rates in Ethiopia are gradually increasing
Malnutrition rates in Ethiopia are gradually increasing despite widespread efforts to help millions of people facing starvation in the country, according to aid organisations. - Food for the Hungry Prevents Famine
Food for the Hungry is implementing a comprehensive plan to prevent famine in multiple regions of Ethiopia, where officials warn that more than 12 million people could go hungry. - Interview with Dr Catherine Hamlin, founder of the Fistula Hospital
Dr Catherine Hamlin, 75, founded the world-renowned Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia with her late husband in 1974. In that time they have treated over 20,000 women suffering from appalling birth injuries. Here Dr Hamlin tells IRIN of why more needs to be done to improve a key millennium development goal of maternal health. - Fading hope for Children hit by drought
At the tender age of seven Nuria Ibrahim shouldn't have to worry about starvation or death. But like many children in Ethiopia she soon learnt the harsh realities of life in one of the poorest countries in the world. - Debt and Famine in Ethiopia
The international public seems to be hardly aware of the current crisis in Ethiopia, which could have dimensions even surpassing the imminent food shortages in Southern Africa. Ethiopia is facing a famine of such catastrophic proportions that it could be even worse than the crisis of 1984 which led to Bob Geldof's Band Aid appeal. According to the Ethiopian Government, up to 15 million Ethiopians could soon die of hunger if no action is taken. This means that the number of people involved in this disaster is up to three times higher than in 1984. The Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the United Nations' World Food Programme have called for a massive international relief operation that could be the largest ever mounted. As much as 200 million tons of food aid may be needed. - Massive famine stalks Ethiopia
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has warned that his country faces a famine worse than that of 1984 which killed nearly one million people and sparked a big international relief effort. - Migrant Children Starving to Death in Bale
At least 10 children have starved to death among drought-stricken families who fled to one of Ethiopia's most important national parks seeking refuge. - Sowing the Seeds of Famine in Ethiopia
Crisis in the Horn
More than 8 million people in Ethiopia - representing 15% of the country's population - had been locked into "famine zones". Urban wages have collapsed and unemployed seasonal farm workers and landless peasants have been driven into abysmal poverty. The international relief agencies concur without further examination that climatic factors are the sole and inevitable cause of crop failure and the ensuing humanitarian disaster. What the media tabloids fails to disclose is that - despite the drought and the border war with Eritrea - several million people in the most prosperous agricultural regions have also been driven into starvation. Their predicament is not the consequence of grain shortages but of "free markets" and "bitter economic medicine" imposed under the IMF-World Bank sponsored Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). - NETHERLANDS TO AID EDUCATION
ADDIS ABABA, 5 November (IRIN) - Six million schoolbooks are to be printed and distributed to children throughout Ethiopia, the Dutch government announced on Wednesday. - Mr Tony Blair visit in Ethiopia.
ADDIS ABABA, 7 October (IRIN) - British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, flew into Ethiopia on Wednesday to discus the plight of the world's poorest continent at a meeting of the new Commission for Africa that he helped to create. - UK aid to famine-ravaged Ethiopia slashed by half
Britain has halved its aid to Ethiopia, despite a drought which has triggered the worst food shortages in the Horn of Africa since the terrible famine that killed a million Ethiopians in the mid-1980s. Despite fresh evidence of the massive scale of the disaster threatening Ethiopia, International Development Secretary Clare Short has cut Ethiopia's three-year aid programme from £39.3 million to £19m, because of fears that renewal of war with Eritrea will stop the cash from getting through to projects to tackle poverty and illiteracy. - SOMALIA-TSUNAMI OVER 10,000 PEOPLE AFFECTED.115 PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIFE.
NAIROBI, 31 December (IRIN) - UN agencies appealed on Friday for immediate assistance to communities on the Somali coast that were affected by the earthquake-generated tsunami which devastated much of South Asia on 26 December. - FOOD DISTRIBUTION IN DROUGHT-HIT AREAS STILL INADEQUATE
NAIROBI, 4 June (IRIN) - The distribution of food and other relief items in drought-affected areas of Ethiopia has remained inadequate, and donors need to expedite food deliveries to avert shortages before the end this month, a famine-alert agency said on Thursday. - MAJOR RELIEF EFFORTS UNDER WAY
ADDIS ABABA, 8 June (IRIN) - A major relief effort is under way to avert a potential crisis from affecting the government's controversial resettlement scheme, humanitarian sources told IRIN on Tuesday. Some 250,000 people are being provided with supplementary food as families who moved under the scheme face serious shortages. - MALNUTERITION LOOMING IN OROMIYA REGION
NAIROBI, 24 August (IRIN) - Ethiopia's south-central Oromiya region is threatened with rising malnutrition levels, hunger, disease and water shortages as a result of inadequate and erratic rainfall, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said. - 750,000 CHILDREN VACCINATED AGAINST POLIO.
ADDIS ABABA, 27 October (IRIN) - Ethiopia has completed the vaccination of 750,000 children against polio as it seeks to eradicate the last traces of the paralysing disease in the country. The campaign comes amid fears that polio could re-emerge in Ethiopia after new cases were discovered close to the border of neighbouring Sudan. - RULING PARTY WANTS MORE WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT.
ADDIS ABABA, 29 October (IRIN) - Ethiopia's ruling party is imposing female quotas on candidates in a bid to have more women in parliament, officials said on Friday. Women are guaranteed up to 30 percent of seats in the national elections for the incumbent Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). - BBC NEWS
'No rop' in world hunger deaths All but one of the 16 hungriest nations are in sub-Saharan Africa A child still dies of hunger every five seconds, eight years on from a pledge to halve the world's hungry by 2015, a United Nations agency has said. The annual UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) report says present levels of hunger cause the death of more than five million children a year. - ETHIOPIAN CHILDREN SEEK ANSWERS
Half of Africa's population is made up of young people. It is they who are often hardest hit by the continent's poverty, and they who face the challenge of creating a better future. BBC Africa Live invited eight Ethiopian children to put their questions to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's Commission for Africa, which is examining how to pull the continent out of poverty. - ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: UNMEE warns of continuing border incidents
The UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) has expressed concern over "continuing incidents of violence" along the disputed 1,000 km border between the countries. At UN-hosted Military Coordination Commission talks on Saturday between the armed forces of Eritrea and Ethiopia in Nairobi, Kenya, the commander of the UN peacekeeping forces in the region, Maj Gen Rajender Singh, called on both sides to try and resolve the hostility. - OGADEN REBEL GROUP, OFFERS TO END WAR
An armed rebel group waging a bloody guerrilla war in lawless eastern Ethiopia on Tuesday offered a truce to end its decade-old fight against the government. The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) offered peace talks in a neutral country to try to bring an end to the fighting that has plagued this arid region. The decision was announced in a statement following an exchange of letters between Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and Ogadeni clan elders in an attempt to secure peace in one of the poorest and most remote parts of the country. - EU PLEDGES FUNDS TO HELP END HUNGER
ADDIS ABABA, 27 July (IRIN) - The European Union pledged on Tuesday to provide 60 million Euros (US $71.9 million) to help end hunger and food aid dependency for five million people in Ethiopia. - SOMALIA. 100,000 need urgent humanitarian assistance - UN
NAIROBI, 22 September (IRIN) - More than 100,000 people in southwestern Somalia's Gedo district are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Tuesday. - MAIN OPPOSION COALITION MERGES TO FORM PARTY
The four parties that make up Ethiopia's largest opposition alliance, the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) have merged to form one party, an official of the coalition said on Thursday. - ETHIOPIA- 10,000 HOMELESS IN FLOOD HIT - DIRE DAWA
ADDIS ABABA, 8 August (IRIN) - At least 10,000 people have lost their homes in the eastern Ethiopian city of Dire Dawa after a flash flood hit the area, killing hundreds, officials said on Tuesday.