This profile provides an overview of climate risks facing Ethiopia, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture and crop production, livestock, water resources and human health. The brief includes an overview of Ethiopia’s geography and landscape, observed historical climate changes, and projected changes to key climate stressors. The profile …
• South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who is standing trial on charges of fraud and embezzlement for his team's research on stem cells, has resumed work on animal cloning. He has opened a biological research facility in southern Seoul and is working with about 30 of his former lab associates. …
An important find at Gona in Ethiopia's Afar region, about 500 kilometres from Addis Ababa, is likely to fill a major gap in the story of human evolution. Fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, one of the earliest humans who lived about 4.5 million years ago, are expected to provide insights into …
The Ethiopian economy has received a major boost in the form of debt relief by the Paris Club countries, comprising mainly Western nations, and the African Development Bank. Announcing the cancellation of us $758 million of debt, the Paris Club nations recently said Ethiopia's outstanding debt was us $153 million …
• Ethiopia is to issue its first-ever private radio broadcasting licences by August 2004. The licences would be issued ahead of the 2005 elections that, analysts say, will test the government's commitment to democracy. All legal TV and radio broadcasting organisations in Ethiopia are currently state-owned. • Want to help …
in many parts of Ethiopia, traditional healers are tackling malaria quite easily with the help of a few medicinal plants. This was found during a study, carried out by researchers from Germany-based Martin Luther University. A total of 44 traditional healers were studied from two areas in Ethiopia
Ethiopia is waging a novel war against famine. Relief workers are teaching people about the soil. They are trying to counter the land degradation, caused by too many farmers crowded on small tracts, thereby destroying Ethiopia's terrain. The concerted effort of relief workers to tackle famines is bearing fruit. More …
Fossil hunters have found the bones and teeth of forest-dwelling creatures who are said to have lived more than 5.8 million years ago. The creatures are believed to have walked upright. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, usa , along with his colleagues found the fossils …
Almost 3,000 tonnes of dangerous pesticides stored at nearly 1,000 sites around Ethiopia are threatening the health of millions of people and contaminating the soil and water resources. "These pesticides are time bombs,' says Belay Ejigu, the country's deputy agriculture minister. The pesticides got accumulated due to mismanagement. A severe …
Waste and pollution have led to critical health problems in various cities of Ethiopia. This was stated by the Ethiopian Wildlife and Natural History Society ( ewnhs ). Stephen Spawls, vice president of ewnhs, believes that fast growing urban population has made matters worse. Spawls said the existing environmental educational …
scientists working in a remote part of Ethiopia have unearthed the remains of a new species of an ape-like animal that lived around 2.5 million years ago, and some stone tools. They say the tools were possibly used by the first human ancestor to prepare meat , a dramatic evidence …
The Eucalyptus tree has witnessed changing times in Ethiopia. Rulers may have come and gone, but the Eucalyptus still plays an active role in shaping the ecology. Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa looks like a verdant jungle from afar. That is why a Frenchman visiting the country this century suggested changing …
The border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea has taken a new turn, with Ethiopian jets trying to destroy a vital water source in Eritrea. Ethiopian MiG-23 fighter planes bombed a reservoir 50 kilometres from the Eritrean port of Assab. An Ethiopian communiqu
A major change in the agricultural policy by the East African country has helped increase crop production. In the last five years, the government has invested more money, provided far-mers with more services and perhaps most important, allowed them to sell their crops in the open market. The changes in …
According to a report of the UN, the HIV epidemic is far worse than previously thought. The report released by the joint UN programme on HIV/AIDS paints a grim picture of the spread of the HIV epidemic, particularly in such hard-hit developing regions as sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America …
A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the us have abandoned plans to use dummy pills in an experiment on Ethiopian women who are pregnant and infected with the aids virus. The use of the dummy pills as a placebo has renewed the intense debate over the ethics …
according to a study printed in the British medical journal, The Lancet, industrialisation has brought a host of diseases, from cancer and brain tumours to depression. It says that development also increases people's susceptibility to respiratory diseases and allergies. British and Ethiopian doctors sent questionnaires to some 10,000 households in …
