ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia is launching a national initiative in schools this year to treat children at risk of infection from parasitic worms, mirroring a program in Kenya which has improved child health and school attendance, a charity involved said. Ethiopia aims to treat at least 80 percent of children at risk from parasitic
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Ethiopia’s Central Statistical Agency says there are over 5.5 million child laborers in this country between the ages of 5 and 14 World Bulletin/News Desk Eleven-year-old Senait travels the streets of Addis Ababa, the bustling Ethiopian metropolis of 3.5 million people, every day in search for people who want to try their luck by buying
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Ethiopian Tarikuwa Lemma The Guardian In 2006, less than a year after my sisters and I were brought to America as the victims of a corrupt adoption agency, I told the Americans who were saying that they were our “forever” family that I wanted to return to Ethiopia. I didn’t want a new family, I
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Mar 7, 2014 By Frank Ligtvoet A Unicef report states that in Ethiopia there are at this moment 4.5 million orphans on a population of some 90 million. The 4.5 million means that 5 percent of the total population is…
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