Ethiopian police seizes tons of chemicals

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 ...

21 days ago

Rebel Somalis in Ogaden take seven Ethiopian towns.

By: northsunm32

 Ethiopia was in the news a while ago for sending troops to Somalia to help prop up the provisional western-backed government there. Eventually they withdrew but it seems that rebel Somalis in the Ogaden area of Ethiopia are now taking the battle back to Ethiopia itself. The Ogaden is an area in southern Ethiopia and the rebel group ONLF ...

17 days ago

Somali anger at Ethiopia 'raid'

By: BiodunIginla

Saturday, October 10, 2009 by Natalie Duval for the BBC's Biodun Iginla. Natalie Duval reported from Djibouti   Somalia's semi-autonomous region o

about 1 month ago

Lebanon: Deadly Month for Domestic Workers

By: chnarendra

The Lebanese government should investigate the deaths of eight migrant domestic workers during October 2009, as well as the reasons for the disproportionately high death rate among this group of workers, Human Rights Watch said today. An estimated 200,000 domestic workers, primarily from Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Ethiopia, work in ...

25 days ago