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News Articles: Ethiopia

Elias Abdi Abdullahi, an Ethiopian farmer, carries a bunch of uprooted weeds from the wheat field he farms with his wife. They're trying to increase their crop yields in an area often threatened by conflict and drought.

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  • Global Health

What is 'food resilience'? Ask these Ethiopian farmers facing conflict and drought

Many farmers in Ethiopia have lost valuable land for growing crops. They're learning to change the way they work to make the most out of what they have.

August 10, 2024
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By:
  • Willem Marx
A child receives a measles vaccination at a clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe, where a 2022 outbreak saw some 700 children die from the highly infectious childhood disease.

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  • Global Health

It's no surprise there's a global measles outbreak. But the numbers are 'staggering'

That's the adjective used by the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Global Immunization Division. Can the world bring this outbreak under control?

February 08, 2024
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By:
  • Fran Kritz
GPB News NPR

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  • News

Sexual violence is an ancient and often unseen war crime. Is it inevitable?

"Conflict-related sexual violence" is as old as the Bible and as topical as current wars around the world. We talk to three experts about why it persists, why it's underreported and how to stop it.

February 08, 2024
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By:
  • Jill Langlois
People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus keep social distancing as they wait to enter a KFC restaurant in Yokohama near Tokyo on May 14, 2020.

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  • World

These are some Christmas traditions around the world, from fistfights to KFC

Some of these traditions' origin stories and how they are implemented can vary by region or households, but they nonetheless help bring holiday cheer to those who celebrate.

December 14, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Manmade pits at construction sites are providing nurseries for malaria-carrying mosquitoes, new research finds.

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  • Global Health

Big city mosquitoes are a big problem — and now a big target

Africa's cities have become home to an invasive, malaria-carrying mosquito. New research suggests vulnerabilities that could be exploited to take on the disease-bearing insects.

December 05, 2023
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Heman Bekele with the help of his 3M mentor, Deborah Isabelle (left), created a prototype soap to treat melanoma. Isabelle said of Bekele, "he's going to continue to inspire other young people to realize that science can make a positive difference."

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  • Global Health

Q&A: This scientist developed a soap that could help fight skin cancer. He's 14.

Inspired by a childhood in sun-baked Ethiopia, Heman Bekele wanted to tackle skin cancer. He came up with a topical cancer-fighting soap, and it won him the 3M Young Scientist's Challenge.

October 27, 2023
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By:
  • Max Barnhart
A woman walks in front of a house damaged by shelling in the city of Wukro, in Tigray, Ethiopia. A new report indicates that military forces have engaged in hundreds of sexual assaults on girls and women.

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  • Global Health

Whatever happened in Ethiopia: Did the cease-fire bring an end to civilian suffering?

The civil war in northern Ethiopia officially ended in November. But a new report indicates that military forces have engaged in hundreds of sexual assaults on girls and women.

August 29, 2023
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa.

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  • Middle East

Ethiopia to investigate report of killings of its nationals at the Saudi-Yemen border

The Ethiopian government said it will investigate a report of killings of hundreds its nationals at the Yemen-Saudi border. A Saudi government official rejected the Human Rights Watch report.

August 23, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
A scene from the popular Ethiopian soap opera <em>Yegna</em>, which sends messages about health and well-being to its teen viewers. Topics range from child marriage to menstrual pads.

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  • Television

She writes for a hit Ethiopian soap opera. This year, the plot turns on child marriage

The show is Yegna. Its goal (besides entertainment) is to tackle issues affecting teen girls (and boys, too), from a lack of menstrual pads to why betting is unwise. We talk to one of the writers.

June 04, 2023
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  • Veronique Mistiaen
Mayor Andre Dickens

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  • News

Dickens to lead economic, cultural relations trip to Ethiopia

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is leading a trip to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to foster economic and cultural relations between the two cities. 

May 12, 2023
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By:
  • Collin Kelley
Abrham Amare, one of the plaintiffs named in a new lawsuit filed against Facebook's parent company, Meta, claims that social media posts directly led to his father's murder in Ethiopia last year.

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  • Technology

A $1.6 billion lawsuit alleges Facebook's inaction fueled violence in Ethiopia

One of the plaintiffs says he contacted Facebook several times about posts threatening violence against his father, who was murdered by members of a militant group.

December 17, 2022
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  • Emily Olson
Chief of Staff of Ethiopian Armed Forces Field Marshall Birhanu Jula, left, and Head of the Tigray Forces Lt. Gen. Tadesse Werede, right, exchange signed copies of an agreement, at Ethiopian peace talks in Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday.

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  • Africa

Military leaders from Ethiopia and the Tigray region have agreed on a peace roadmap

Both parties have agreed to protect civilians and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the region of more than 5 million people, according to a copy of the agreement seen by the AP.

November 13, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Redwan Hussein (seated left), representative of the Ethiopian government, and Getachew Reda (seated right), representative of the Tigray People's Liberation Front, sign a peace agreement between the two parties in Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday.

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  • Africa

Ethiopia's truce is a step toward ending civil war, but there are reasons for caution

The Ethiopian federal government and Tigray rebels signed a peace deal. But one major player in the conflict, Eritrea, wasn't involved in the talks.

November 03, 2022
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By:
  • Fred Harter
Lead negotiator for Ethiopia's government Redwan Hussein (left) shakes hands with lead Tigray negotiator Getachew Reda, as Kenya's former president, Uhuru Kenyatta looks on, after the peace talks in Pretoria, South Africa, on Wednesday.

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  • Africa

The Ethiopian government and Tigray have agreed to end a 2-year war

Ethiopia's warring sides formally agreed during talks in South Africa to a permanent cessation of hostilities in a conflict whose victims could be counted in the hundreds of thousands.

November 02, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A color-enhanced micrograph of an a<em>nopheles stephens </em>mosquito, which has been behind dramatic malaria outbreaks in urban Ethiopia during the dry season, which is highly unusual.

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  • Global Health

This urban mosquito threatens to derail the fight against malaria in Africa

The Anopheles stephensi is a well-known malaria mosquito, but still sort of new in Ethiopia, where it has caused dramatic, out-of-season outbreaks in ill-equipped cities, new research shows.

November 01, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
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