PRESS RELEASE WASHINGTON, March 21, 2014 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$205 million International Development Association (IDA*) credit to help the Government of Ethiopia increase access to clean drinking water and improve sanitation services for…
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Mar 20, 2014 Ethiopian scientist is one of the five exceptional women honored for scientific excellence L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science today. Each woman represents a unique career path combining exceptional talent, a deep commitment to her profession and remarkable…
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Tue, Mar 18th, 2014 By Robert Herriman The first case of wild poliovirus 1 (WPV-1) in Ethiopia for 2014 has been reported in a 25 month old boy, making it the 10th case overall in the country since the beginning of…
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By AFP AFP/AFP/File – An aerial view shows the Nile river cutting through the Sudanese capital Khartoum on January 13, 2011 Archaeologists have found the 3,200-year-old skeleton of a man with a spreading form of cancer, the oldest example so far…
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13 MARCH 2014 VOA Washington — Each year one million babies are born with congenital heart defects. Ten percent of them do not live to see their first birthday due to lack of treatment, most of them in poor and…
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WASHINGTON, March 12, 2014 PRNewswire The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and Ethio-American Doctors Group, Inc. (“EADG”) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding agreeing to locate the Regional Cancer Center of Excellence (“RCCE”) at the hospital and medical village complex…
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BY KIM LEWIS, VOA 12 MARCH 2014 A European non-profit is launching new efforts to combat blindness in three African countries where some of the world’s highest rates of trachoma are found. As part of their global strategy to eliminate…
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Saturday, March 08, 2014 ADDIS ABABA – Facing inequality, poverty and domestic violence, Ethiopian women are aspiring for a better future, as millions around the world as marking the International Women`s Day. “I support my family. I pay school fees…
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By Corinne Holroyd March 07, 2014 – 2:00 AM STRATHAM — Behaylu Barry is like any 12-year-old boy: He competes on soccer and basketball teams, plays with the family dog named Yoshi and is in the seventh-grade at the Cooperative Middle…
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EthiopiaSOS Children has six Children’s Villages throughout Ethiopia, along with medical centres, schools and support projects for thousands of Aids Orphans in the community … more about our charity work inEthiopiaSponsor a child in Ethiopia Mar 07, 2014 Throughout history, women have…
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