World Bulletin / News Desk The Pan-African Medical Doctors and Healthcare Conference kicked off on Wednesday at African Union (A.U.) headquarters in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. The opening session was attended by A.U. Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Ethiopian President Mulatu Teshome and Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom. In his keynote speech, Teshome said the conference
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By Olivier Knox, Yahoo News Amid a deadly backlash and a resurgence of polio in Pakistan, the White House has promised that the CIA will never again use a vaccination campaign as a tool of spycraft. “I wanted to inform you that the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) directed in August 2013 that
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Time.com By Charlotte Alter @charlottealter A U.N. Special Rapporteur on the right to food warned that obesity is a bigger global health threat than tobacco use, lamenting that it isn’t taken seriously A United Nations official called for greater regulation of unhealthy foods on Monday, saying junk food is just as bad for global health as tobacco. Olivier
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Three-year Trachoma Elimination Programme will help millions of Ethiopians. Gulf News Image Credit: WAM Dubai: A delegation from Noor Dubai Foundation recently travelled to Ethiopia as part of its three-year programme to eliminate trachoma, an eye disease associated with poverty and which affects millions. The delegation, in collaboration with the Carter Centre, visited the Amhara
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MSNBC By Mustafah Abdulaziz and Johnny Simon Photo by Mustafah Abdulaziz In the Konso Region of southern Ethiopia, the struggle for clean, safe water is a daily reality for women and young girls. “Bringing the water is not a simple task,” says Mariam Bakaule, a mother standing at the edge of the mountaintop village of Jarso. “This is
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MSNBC By Mustafah Abdulaziz and Johnny Simon Photo by Mustafah Abdulaziz In the Konso Region of southern Ethiopia, the struggle for clean, safe water is a daily reality for women and young girls. “Bringing the water is not a simple task,” says Mariam Bakaule, a mother standing at the edge of the mountaintop village of Jarso. “This is
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Food Programme will help to feed nearly 6.5 million Ethiopians this year, the U.N. agency said on Tuesday, with the country hit by locusts, neighboring war and sparse rainfall. “We are concerned because there is the beginning of a locust invasion in the eastern part of the country, and if
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Food Programme will help to feed nearly 6.5 million Ethiopians this year, the U.N. agency said on Tuesday, with the country hit by locusts, neighboring war and sparse rainfall. “We are concerned because there is the beginning of a locust invasion in the eastern part of the country, and if
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By Lisa Bloom ETHIOPIA! What I learned in our two week trip, which just ended. (Now I’m in Israel on a very different kind of trip for the next ten days.) My highlights: 1. Ethiopians are the friendliest people I’ve met in my lifetime of travels to about 60 countries. It was just a constant
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Lessons in emergency wait times: In Ethiopia, the sick go first By JAMES MASKALYK SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL Abdu Ibrahim Mohammed, a retired salt merchant, poses for a photograph close to his home in the town of Berahile…
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