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Ethiopia, Africa

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AFRICA: Need to focus on mater...
AFRICA: Need to focus on maternal, child health - top AU official
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Countries in Africa should promote maternal, infant and child health and report on progress, in order to curb high deaths rates on the continent, a...
ETHIOPIA: Saving lives with tr...
ETHIOPIA: Saving lives with trained birth attendants
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Like many teenagers in rural Ethiopia, Shekuria Mume, 19, became pregnant, quit school and got married at 15. The birth of her first baby remains one...
ETHIOPIA: Can't eat, won't lea...
ETHIOPIA: Can't eat, won't learn
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Ethiopia's schools have opened for the new academic year, but severe food insecurity in some regions has kept thousands of children out of class. ...
ETHIOPIA: More parents saying ...
ETHIOPIA: More parents saying no to FGM
Monday, September 15, 2008
Fewer Ethiopian parents are subjecting their daughters to female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM), according to an NGO campaigning to eradicate...
ETHIOPIA: Cappuccino with cond...
ETHIOPIA: Cappuccino with condom
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Bellissima, on bustling Gabon Street in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, could be just another upmarket café, except that each order comes with a...
ETHIOPIA: Soaring malnutrition...
ETHIOPIA: Soaring malnutrition hits children hardest
IRIN NEWS http://irinnews.org
Monday, June 2, 2008
Genetu Dekebo's children were on the verge of starvation at the time she decided to seek treatment at Rophi therapeutic feeding centre in southern...
AFRICA: Soaring food and fuel ...
AFRICA: Soaring food and fuel prices may hurt growth
IRIN: http://www.irinnews.org
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Tayech Ali arrived half an hour before the grain distribution centre in Gojam Berenda, in the capital, Addis Ababa, opened, but still had to queue...
ETHIOPIA: Lifting of grain tax...
ETHIOPIA: Lifting of grain tax may ease food burden for urban poor
Sunday, March 23, 2008
The Ethiopian government’s decision to remove some taxes on grains is unlikely to have an immediate impact on rising food prices in rural areas,...
ETHIOPIA: “Eight million need ...
ETHIOPIA: “Eight million need assistance, despite record harvest”
IRIN
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Ethiopia experienced a record harvest during the meher season that runs from June and October but pockets of poor food production across the country...
ETHIOPIA: Strategy to focus on...
ETHIOPIA: Strategy to focus on malnutrition
IRIN
Monday, February 11, 2008
Ethiopia’s new national nutrition strategy will target children younger than two years of age because a significant number suffer chronic...