Year: 2015
- Africa
Latest MDG Progress Report Released
Ethiopia Shows Progress to Meet the Targets but Lagging Behind on Gender Equality and Maternal Health The latest report assessing Ethiopia’s progress towards Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is released Thursday in Addis Abeba at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. The MDG progress reports have in the past been used as a strong advocacy tool to accelerate progress and…
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The many hands of Henock Temesgen
Mahlet Fasil As a host of a one hour radio show, “Timeless Classics”, on Sheger FM 102.1, every Saturday afternoon at 6 pm, the bassist Henock Temesgen plays popular old tunes from Willie Nelson to The Temptations, form Bob Dylan to The Jackson Five. For those listeners who prefer standard Jazz and the likes of John Coltrane or Miles Davis,…
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More Than 4.6 Million children in Ethiopia facing hunger from current drought
Close to five million children risk going hungry as the result of a worsening food crisis in Ethiopia brought on by a severe drought across normally green and productive regions – making this natural disaster the worst in recent history, warns Save the Children. Three hundred and fifty thousand children are already severely malnourished, which if left untreated, can cause…
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Hawassa University to host international symposium on balancing soil nutrients
Land degradation worldwide costs an estimated US$10.6 trillion every year and presents a huge challenge to future global food security. In sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia, soil nutrient-depletion is directly related, where fertilizer use and agricultural productivity rates are the lowest in the world. Many African countries use little or no potash fertilizers, which are crucial for balanced fertilization and sustainable…
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EU Foreign Policy Chief visits Ethiopia, AU
Issues of Peace and Security, Migration, Economic Cooperation, Democracy high on her agenda Kalkidan Yibeltal Federica Mogherini, the European Union Commission’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, made her first visit to Ethiopia and the African Union Commission (AUC) yesterday. Federica Mogherini, who is also the Vice President of the EU, visited Ethiopia as part of…
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Breaking – Ethiopia drops infamous terrorism charges against all bloggers
Mahelt Fasil Nearly a year and half since they were first arrested charges of terrorism against the five remaining members of Zone9 bloggers were dropped this morning. A federal court in Addis Abeba freed Journalists Tesfalem Wadyes Asmamaw Hailegiorgis and Edom Kassaye as well as members of the blogging collective Zelalem Kibret and Mahlet Fantahun on July 8th. …
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Dream turns sour for Ethiopian migrants jailed in Malawi
The dream of a new life in SA has turned into a nightmare for Ethiopian migrants held in Malawian jails despite having served their sentences “This prison is hell on earth. We are in prison despite paying the fine,” a tearful 15-year-old Eyasu Tadiya told Agence France-Presse inside Dedza prison, 85 kilometres south of Lilongwe, the administrative capital. Eyasu, looking…
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Germany contributes one million Euros to help refugees in Ethiopia
The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany committed 1,000,000 Euros until the end of 2015 to support the efforts of the World Food Program (WFP) in Ethiopia. The grant is given to provide emergency food assistance for Eritrean, Sudanese, South Sudanese, and Somali refugees in the country. With this grant WFP will provide food for refugees, targeted supplementary feeding…
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Editorial – Ethiopia should depoliticize hunger
A statement issued by the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and was released in early August this year is replete with paragraphs showing the unmistakable difference between a drought in Ethiopia and Australia. The effect of a rain pattern delayed by a season or two in Ethiopia means “Food insecurity is widespread and rates of acute…
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Migration within the Horn: Balancing regional integration and national interests
The Life & Peace Institute’s Horn of Africa Regional Program held its first Horn of Africa Bulletin Forum (HABForum) on ’Mobility and Migration in in the Horn of Africa: East African Migrants in South Sudan’. The Forum, which was held on Oct. 1st, was opened by the South Sudanese Ambassador to Ethiopia, and convened civil society actors, international organizations, IGAD…
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