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Tag Archives: Ethiopia
Ethiopia Still Requires Food Aid, But Situation Is Improving
Its amazing what peace can actually do. In Ethiopia, crop production in 2004 was 24 percent higher than in the 2003, and 21 percent higher than the average of the previous five years according to a report by the Food … Continue reading
Boutros Boutros Ghali Predicts Regional Water Wars
In an interview with the BBC, former United Nations Secretary Boutros Boutros Ghali predicted that conflicts would soon arise between countries in the Nile basin over rights to water that flows through the Nile. Egypt has long been the largest … Continue reading
Tagged Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, United Nations, Water
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You Mean Genocide and Corruption Aren’t Good for the Economy?
Speaking at a conference in Ethiopia, United Nations investment analyst stated the obvious — investors don’t want to put their money into Africa when they see genocide in Sudan, civil war in Ivory Coast, and the sort of endemic corruption … Continue reading
Ethiopia and the International Monetary Fund at Loggerheads Over Privatization
Ethiopian officials complained in September about International Monetary Fund requirements that it privatize several industries in order to receive further IMF aid. Ethiopia formally rejected IMF requirements that it privatize state-run telecommunications, power and water utilities. The IMF agreed on … Continue reading
More Warnings about Hunger in Ethiopia and Eritrea
Aid agencies and Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi warned this week that if international aid does not arrive soon, the numbers of people who could die in Ethiopia in 2003 will be even more than died in the 1984 famine … Continue reading
Tagged Eritrea, Ethiopia, World Food Program
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Illegal Abortions a Major Killer of Women in Ethiopia
According to the World Health Organization, complications arising from illegal abortions are now the second leading cuase of death for young women in Ethiopia. Only tuberculosis kills more young women in that poverty-stricken nation. Abortion is illegal in Ethiopia except … Continue reading
Forty Million in Danger of Starvation
The United Nations recently revised its estimate of the number of people facing food insecurity to 40 million as problems in Africa continue to mount. In the Horn of Africa alone, 14 million people face starvation unless the World Food … Continue reading
Ethiopia Facing Ongoing Crisis
While other parts of Africa have received more attention, Ethiopia is experiencing an ongoing food crisis that threatens up to half a million people in the northeastern part of the country, and millions of others throughout the country. Populated by … Continue reading
Tagged Ethiopia
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