Ethiopia?s biggest opposition says "no intent" to boycott election

African Ministers Appeal to Keep Poor Students in School During ...

By: chnarendra

14 leading African Finance and Education Ministers have written to development and finance ministers in leading OECD donor countries, appealing for financial help to send 20 million children to primary school for the first time by the end of next year.   In their letter to donor government leaders, the African Ministers, from Burkina ...

2 months ago

23 million go hungry in Horn of Africa: UN

By: voiceofkashmir

ROME: U.N. 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 some 23 million people not getting enough to eat.The World Food Program will need $1 billion to provide food aid in the next six months in the region ...

12 days ago

Climate change compounds Ethiopia's food crisis

By: dustgeer

  Standing amidst a group of scrawny fellow Ethiopian farmers, Tuke Shika points to the scorching sun when asked why his food reserves have dwindled this year. "The weather has changed, it's not as it used to be before," he laments. "The rains are increasingly erratic, and we are getting less and less yields." In Loke, 350 kilometres (215 ...

17 days ago

Ethiopia asks for urgent food aid

By: BiodunIginla

Thursday, October 22, 2009 Search term http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-4459148/aHR0cDovL2

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