BONGA For many years, Waskan Munya has followed the same Saturday afternoon routine - chatting with his fellow refugees while one of his two wives...

Desperate Ethiopians, flocking to an ancient mountain north of the capital, Addis Ababa, seeking a holy water cure for AIDS have been belatedly...

Asmera Getachew had completed a teacher training course when she saw an advert inviting applications from those interested in joining the government...

Benishangul Gumuz regional state in southern Ethiopia was a lush, green area before local residents began cutting down most of the trees. Once 60...

For the first time, air attacks have been reported in Somalias escalating conflict between forces of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) and the...

Ethiopia began a nine-day national census on 29 May to determine demographic trends in the country, but the exercise was delayed in Afar and Somali,...

Like his neighbours in the southern Ethiopian district of Yirgacheffe, Birhanu Gizamu is a smallholder coffee farmer. Unlike the rest of the...

Boston International agency Oxfam welcomed todays news that the Government of Ethiopia and the Starbucks Coffee Company have agreed in principle to...

A swarm of locusts is likely to infest the eastern part of Ethiopia in mid-June, the Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA)...

Ethiopia's Afar and Tigray regional states are so heavily mined that hundreds of thousands of people living there are exposed to danger from the...