Tutti i temi: Etiopia

28.02.2008 Global warming, swelling populations, and the increasing accessibility of arms are making water scarcity a growing source of conflict in Ethiopia and Kenya.

08.02.2008 Suomalaisen kouluruokailun 60. juhlavuoden kunniaksi oppilaitokset ympäri Suomen voivat tulla mukaan kattamaan koulupöydän Etiopian kyläkoulujen lapsille. Keräysvarat käytetään koulujen rakentamiseen ja ylläpitämiseen Etelä-Etiopiassa Alaban, Ankoberin, Baso Liben, Chehan ja Konson kunnissa.

11.01.2008 One of many reasons Zeynu Ullu loves her position as a community health educator is that now, "All women in my community are informed about breastfeeding, immunization and sanitation."

28.12.2007 The United Nations peacekeeping mission monitoring the ceasefire between Ethiopia and Eritrea has called on both sides to show maximum restraint after a shooting incident in the border area where the two countries fought a two-year war that ended in 2000.

26.12.2007 The anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, detained in Ethiopia in 2005 and convicted on 24 December after a two-year trial, were today given prison sentences of two-and-a-half years each.

24.12.2007 Ethiopia's Federal High Court has convicted anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, the last remaining defendants in a trial in which they were charged along with 129 others.

18.12.2007 An international organization working on food security will provide Ethiopia with the world's first 'humanitarian' insurance and contingency plan to cover 6.7 million people, in case there is a drought comparable to the one that hit the Horn of Africa country in 2002-2003.

30.11.2007 The verdict in the case of Ethiopian anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, which was expected today, has been postponed yet again because one of the three judges has had to be replaced because of illness.

22.11.2007 The verdict in the case of Ethiopian anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and
Netsanet Demissie, which was expected today, has been postponed again because a judge is in hospital.

09.11.2007 Etiopian leikkokukkavienti on viisinkertaistunut viimeisen vuoden aikana. Se on nyt Kenian jälkeen Afrikan toiseksi suurin leikkokukkien viejä.

07.11.2007 Kansainvälinen ajatushautomo varoittaa kasvavista jännitteistä Etiopian ja Eritrean rajalla. Uusi sota uhkaisi sysätä koko Afrikan sarven alueen syvemmälle syöksykierteeseen.

06.11.2007 War between Ethiopia and Eritrea could break out again within weeks, potentially throwing the entire Horn of Africa into new turmoil, a think tank warns.
From: International Crisis Group

03.11.2007 A grim deadline is approaching that marks the undermining of peacemaking in Africa, says Michela Wrong.
From New Statesman

29.09.2007 Fleeing violence, drought, and unemployment, a growing number of Somali and Ethiopian immigrants are attempting to escape across dangerous waters, often encountering death at the hands of smugglers, the sea, or Yemeni forces, reports the UN.

26.09.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (OneWorld) - International donors' apathy towards African flood victims is worrying numerous UN agencies involved in humanitarian relief operations.

06.09.2007 A medical humanitarian organization insists that Ethiopian authorities must grant it access to the conflict-ridden Somali region of the country, where the civilian population already struggles to cope with food insecurity and displacement.

04.09.2007 Medici Senza Frontiere (MSF) ha chiesto alle autorità etiopi di permettere immediatamente ai propri operatori l'accesso alla 'Somali Region' - detta anche Ogaden, una regione dell'Etiopia al confine con la Somalia dove è in corso un conflitto - per portare assistenza alla popolazione. "Nella Somali Region siamo di fronte ad una crisi umanitaria. Le persone vivono nel terrore perché sono intrappolate e spesso bersaglio dei diversi gruppi armati. Chiediamo un accesso immediato alla regione per potere aiutare i civili in pericolo" - ha detto William Robertson, capo missione di MSF in Etiopia. Nelle scorse settimane il governo di Addis Abeba ha espulso dalla regione la Croce Rossa Internazionale (Icrc), accusata di favoritismo verso i ribelli del Fronte nazionale di liberazione dell’Ogaden (Onlf): da alcuni mesi intensi scontri sarebbero in corso nella regione tra esercito e i ribelli impegnati in un decennale conflitto indipendentista.

20.08.2007 Two civil society activists remain in prison in Addis Ababa despite the release of 31 opposition supporters last week.

13.08.2007 Ethiopian, Somali and insurgent forces are all responsible for rampant violations of the laws of war in Mogadishu, an international rights group says in a report that urges the UN Security Council to include a strong civilian protection mandate in any peacekeeping mission.
From: Human Rights Watch
+ Radio Station Chiefs Killed in Wave of Political Killings

09.08.2007 An international health non-profit explores why soap operas have been successful tools to promote understanding and change regarding health, human rights, and the environment in less developed countries.