By Alastair Leithead BBC News, Africa correspondent, Dire Dawa, Eastern Ethiopia Source: BBC News Ethiopia is the world’s fastest growing economy. So when drought struck why did it need international help? Ethiopia has been doing very well over the last Read More ...
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Part I By Worku Aberra Most economists argue that a common market between two or more countries is mutually beneficial, but they also recognize that common markets create winners and losers in each country. To make everybody better off, economists suggest that the winners compensate the losers. In reality, such compensation rarely takes place: the
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BBC News Ethiopia is suffering its worst drought in 30 years, but the country is better equipped to cope than the crisis in 1984, writes the BBC’s Clive Myrie, who has visited one of the worst affected areas. It is a hard-scrabble life being a farmer in northern Ethiopia. Normal years are tough. In some
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By Katy Migiro, Reuters NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Donors are not responding fast enough to urgent calls for more aid to drought-stricken Ethiopia where record-breaking numbers of children are suffering malnutrition, the United Nations said on Monday. Ethiopia is experiencing its worst drought in decades, after low and erratic rainfall during the spring and
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By Katy Migiro, Reuters NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Donors are not responding fast enough to urgent calls for more aid to drought-stricken Ethiopia where record-breaking numbers of children are suffering malnutrition, the United Nations said on Monday. Ethiopia is experiencing its worst drought in decades, after low and erratic rainfall during the spring and
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By Teshome M. Borago Twenty years after rebel-turned-politician Meles Zenawi promised us that all Ethiopians will soon eat three times a day, another famine is now approaching. In 2008, the famous Ethiopian-American economist Dr Eleni Gabre-madhin made headlines worldwide after the establishment of her Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) with the help of authoritarian premier Meles
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By ELIAS MESERET ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s government is calling for international assistance to help feed 8.2 million people after erratic rains devastated crop yields. Climate shocks are common in Ethiopia and often cause poor or failed harvests that lead to acute food shortages. The government has allocated $192 million for food and
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