22 January 2014 , By Nick Ashdown, Source: IPS Addis Ababa_ It’s hard to tell if Gelegay Tsegaye is smiling, since a flap of skin covers half his mouth, but his eyes crinkle when he talks and his muffled voice rings…
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Addis Ababa, 22 January 2014 (WIC)- Ethiopian House of Peoples’ Representatives pass a new tobacco control proclamation. The proclamation prohibits smoking in public places and it also includes putting enormous taxes on and increasing the price of cigarettes. The…
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Addis Ababa, 21 January 2014 (WIC)- A research project for developing varieties of enset, a traditional Ethiopian crop which resembles the banana plant, resistant to the deadly bacterial wilt disease has been launched. The project launched last month (16…
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Berlin Clinic Aims To Make Genital Cutting Survivors Feel Whol By SORAYA SARHADDI NELSON, NPR At a recent sewing class held in Berlin at Mama Afrika, which helps immigrants adjust to life in Germany, most of the African and Middle…
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VOA January 17, 2014 Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders has suspended activities in a South Sudanese state capital after what it calls the looting of its compound. The group said Friday that armed men had entered its compound in…
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By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Netherlands nudged past France and Switzerland as the country with the most nutritious, plentiful and healthy food, while the United States and Japan failed to make it into the top 20, a…
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By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Netherlands nudged past France and Switzerland as the country with the most nutritious, plentiful and healthy food, while the United States and Japan failed to make it into the top 20, a…
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Jan 13, 2014 The University of Gondar is constructing 1,000-bed referral hospital, expected to be inaugurated next June, at a cost of over 350 million birr. Upon completion, it will benefit over five million people in Gondar town and its…
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Chris DeckerNurses care for a patient at the Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Some state medical workers will be visiting the hospital. By John Fauber of the Journal Sentinel Jan. 10, 2014 Chris Decker knows he will see things that…
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Jan 6, 2014 A spurned teen took revenge on a girl by burning her face with boiling water after she unfriended him on Facebook, according to police in India. The Independent reports that the boy, from Bihar state in northern…
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