Business in the Sululta district of Ethiopia’s Oromia region is burgeoning. So why, despite abundant rainfall, does half the population have no access to fresh water? BY WILLIAM DAVIDSON | THE GUARDIAN Towards the end of the day at the Abyssinia Springs bottled water factory near Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, workers hose down the car […]
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The Menschen für Menschen charity has said 5.7 million Ethiopians could die of a lack of food. Part of the problem is that other countries are faring even worse and thus getting most of the publicity. BY DEUTSCHE WELLE Some 6 percent of Ethiopia’s population of 98 million suffers from food shortages resulting from a […]
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Drought kills 110 people in just 48 hours as Somalia slips into famine DEUTSCHE WELLE (DW), Somalia’s prime minister announced Saturday that 110 people have died of hunger in the past 48 hours as a severe drought threatens millions of people across the country. The death toll announcement comes just four days after Somalia’s government […]
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By David Steinman | Forbes, In what could be an important test of the Trump Administration’s attitude toward foreign aid, the new United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, and UN aid chief Stephen O’Brien have called on the international community to give the Ethiopian government another $948 million to assist a reported 5.6 million people facing […]
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Harvest in Eritrea has been bountiful in 2016. Coherent and multi-faceted strategy helped Eritrea offset crop shortfalls. By Ministry of Information, Annual precipitation levels in Eritrea, and the Horn of Africa region in general, are not always plentiful. The main rains tend to be erratic both in terms of spatial distribution and frequency particularly in […]
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The objective is to enhance drought resilience and improve sustainable livelihoods of the communities in the severely drought prone regions with limited Government or donor interventions. By African Development Bank, The African Development Bank has approved a loan and a grant amounting to US $7.14 million to finance the fourth Drought Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods […]
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By Katy Migiro | for Reuters, Over the years, Ethiopian mother-of-three Hana Mekonnen has received all sorts of aid designed to free her from the bitter trap of poverty and hunger: goats, cash transfers, resettlement and, of course, sacks of grain. None has worked. Hana’s one-year-old son was diagnosed with malnutrition in October, usually a time […]
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By Graham Peebles, Millions of the poorest, most vulnerable people in Ethiopia are once again at risk of starvation. Elderly men and women, weak and desperate, wait for food and water; malnourished children lie dying; livestock, bones protruding, perish. According to a statement issued by the World Food Programme (WFP) on 6th February, over 10 […]
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