Dr. Robert Zeigler, an eminent American botanist, flew to Saudi Arabia in March for a series of high-level discussions about the future of the kingdom’s food supply. Saudi leaders were frightened: heavily dependent on imports, they had seen the price...
Blake Mycoskie has proved that he can wear his Toms shoes on the red carpet...Photographs from PatrickMcMullan.com. Blake Mycoskie, the founder of Toms shoes, was standing on the fifth floor of Bergdorf Goodman this afternoon in New York City surveying...
Ethiopia's infamous famine, Bob Geldof overnight visited one of the then worst-affected villages in the north of the Horn of Africa country. Dozens of children and women greeted the Irish rock star as he arrived in Korem village, some 600km...
Africa resembles an upturned soup plate. Much of the continent consists of a high plateau whose sides fall sharply to a narrow, low coastal belt. The plateau varies in elevation between about 1,000 and 8,000 feet (305-2,440 meters), but is...
Twenty-five years after the world was gripped by harrowing scenes of starvation and death in Ethiopia, chronic hunger has returned to the Horn of Africa. Last month the Ethiopian government called for urgent international assistance to help feed 6,2-million people....
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia
| updated Sun Nov 15 12:06:33 -0800 2009
| political-news
Malaria and Tuberculosis has approved grants worth $2.4 billion to fight the diseases during the next two years. The amount represents a slight decrease in funding levels, though the three killer diseases show little sign of abatement. Malaria and Tuberculosis...
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia
| updated Sun Nov 22 17:00:15 -0800 2009
| travel-news
United Nations officials say years of drought and war, as well as high food prices and the global financial crisis, have made the Horn of Africa one of the most critical hunger areas in the world, with 23-million people not...
Ethiopian military of killing and raping civilians and burning villages in the region as part of its effort to root out insurgents. The regular accusations from both sides are impossible to verify. The Ogaden region is said to contain mineral...
The Saudi East African forum, a new initiative that offers unique opportunity for trade, investment and to promote and exhibit products and services between Saudi Arabia and the East African countries winded up today in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa....
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia
| updated Sun Nov 08 08:55:07 -0800 2009
| political-news
China on Sunday signed a 349-million-U.S. dollar loan agreement with Ethiopia to help build the country's first expressway. The 79-km expressway will link Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa with the country's second largest city of Nazeret.
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