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This paper analyses the outcomes of food aid and food security in India, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Zambia. The research shows that there are large differences in the effectiveness of food aid in reducing long term dependence on food aid in Asia as compared to Africa. The study lists the following as some of factors influencing the differences in outcomes in the two regions: per capital GDP; population size; differences in terms of growth and poverty outcomes over time. The paper makes the following conclusions (eldis.org)

Ethiopian authorities have rejected accusation by four position groups that hundreds of their members are allegedly been jailed by the ruling party to prevent them from running in Next year's general electron.

DAKAR Thursday, October 01, 2009 (IRIN) - According to (yet another) new climate change report, this time from development think-tank CGD, these are the 20 cities where the most people will be at the greatest risk from sea level rise and storm surges in the developing world. (irinnews.org)

Madagascar's political rivals struck a deal late Friday on the make-up of a unity government, paving the way for an end to a 10-month political crisis that has rocked the Indian Ocean island.

(Ethiopian News, Music, Video) - Maybe it is time for the rest of the world to follow Canada's lead and pull out of Afghanistan. Then we can all invade some place equally needy like Eritrea. It only makes economic sense. (Topix.net)

(Ethiopian Music, News, Video) - The impact of the worldwide financial crisis could include preventing Ethiopia from reaching its anti-poverty goals by 2015, a United Nations official says. U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Thursday the international economic downturn may leave Ethiopia unable to successfully embrace the Millennium Development Goals, a U.N. release reported. (Topix.net)

Immigration officials in the self-declared republic of Somaliland have expressed concern over the increase in the number of illegal Ethiopian migrants entering the region, with claims that up to 90 people are arriving daily, against 50 in 2008. (AllAfrica)

Ethiopian Government has appealed for an emergency food aid for 6.2 million people suffering from malnutrition and hunger due to drought. (AllAfrica)

Ethiopia needs an additional $175 million this year to help feed 6.2 million people ravaged by prolonged drought and crop failure, about 8 per cent of the population, the United Nations humanitarian arm reported today, citing the Government and aid agencies. (AllAfrica)

Africa's efforts to meet the global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals by their 2015 deadline are threatened by the impact of the global financial crisis on the continent's economies, said Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro.

With droughts becoming more common, donors and the Ethiopian government must look beyond the traditional "band aid" responses to disasters by using approaches that are more cost-effective, sustainable and better suited to the population, international aid agency Oxfam says in a new report. (AllAfrica)

HARGEISA Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - Immigration officials in the self-declared republic of Somaliland have expressed concern over the increase in the number of illegal Ethiopian migrants entering the region, with claims that up to 90 people are arriving daily, against 50 in 2008. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - With increasing natural disasters, including floods, storms and droughts, hitting the continent, more people in Africa are likely to be displaced, creating a challenge for governments, the UN warns. (irinnews.org)

ADDIS ABABA Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - With non-skilled jobs in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, paying as little as US$16 per month, the financial incentives to engage in commercial sex work are overwhelming - earning 30 times a domestic worker’s salary. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA Thursday, October 22, 2009 (IRIN) - Civil society and government officials are gathered in the Ugandan capital of Kampala to discuss the Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Africa and a declaration on refugees, returnees and IDPs. (irinnews.org)

The sound of the evening bell at a local boarding high-school in Wajir, in the northeast of Kenya, did not always signal the end of the day's classes.

(Ethiopian Music, News) - As an Ethiopian nothing drives me more bonkers than waking up every morning, just to learn that something tragic, or depressing had happened in Ethiopia (either on the political arena, or the economical-and-business front). In my entire existence, I have never felt any less of an Ethiopian through all this mayhem that Ethiopia seems to find itself in, time and again. In fact, I believe, Ethiopians have an undying patriotism about them. Patriotism oozes through our blood stream. We fight, and fight, and fight for one common goal - the betterment of Ethiopia.

As you all know, we have what we call - the Ignorant Ethiopian Diaspora. If you haven't already felt like you have been attacked or disrespected, congrats, as you are not in that category. You are the average Ethiopian who wakes up every day, goes to work, support the family, and hope and pray for the best in Ethiopia. (Topix.net)

Echoing the Ethiopian government's recent call for food aid, British diplomat, Paddy Ashdown, has requested the international community's urgent assistance in preventing a looming humanitarian crisis. Reuters reports that 160,000 tons of food are required if the devastating effects of poor rainfall are to be avoided. According to the Economist magazine, this year has seen the worst drought in East Africa since possibly 1991. Production of Kenya's staple crop, maize, is expected to fall by a third, with subsistence farmers suffering the most. In several parts of the country, villagers are already dependent on monthly government rations of maize-meal and cooking oil. Somalia, faced with attrition from an escalating civil war, is now also considering the daunting prospect of supplying emergency food supplies to about 3.6 million hungry people. Yet, it is Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous nation, that is most susceptible to climate change, and, confronting the specter of famine, will have to ask itself why it is once again in this perilous situation. Paddy Ashdown, speaking to Reuters about the possibility of 6.2 million Ethiopians starving to death, said, "We can prevent this situation getting to much worse proportions."
Although the government's appeal for aid coincides with the 25th anniversary of the 1984 famine, a tragedy that resulted in the deaths of over 1million Ethiopians, Ashdown claims such a doomsday scenario is less likely in the twenty-first century. "A number of factors are not in place that were in place then. There was a civil war, we didn't have the institutions we have now to deal with problems, and we reacted late." Although agriculture remains the mainstay of Ethiopia's economy, and most farmers continue to employ outmoded practices, the country is better prepared to avert famine than it was 25 years ago. And, thanks to the well-publicized Band Aid and USA for Africa campaigns in the 1980s, the world is much more aware. According to the U.S. State Department, agriculture is responsible for more than 80 percent of Ethiopia's exports and provides jobs for 85 percent of its population. Coffee production is the country's largest source of foreign reserves, and, unsurprisingly, is closely monitored by the government. Other important agricultural exports include animal skins, pulses, and "khat", a 6-12 foot flowering shrub whose leaves are chewed for their mind-altering effects. (Topix.net)

A vital air service providing humanitarian support to hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people in Ethiopia - particularly the Somali Region – may be grounded in a matter of weeks, due to a shortage of funds. (AllAfrica)

A book on auditing relating to local features of Ethiopia was launched at a ceremony organized by the Department of Accounting and Finance of the Addis Ababa University on Monday at the Faculty of Business and Economics hall. The book is authored by Professor Yohannes Kinfu and Ato Engida Bayou. Panel discussion took place in which many stressed the huge contributions of a book on auditing relating to the ground realities of Ethiopia rather than mere theoretical assertions. (AllAfrica)

NAIROBI Thursday, October 22, 2009 (IRIN) - With droughts becoming more common, donors and the Ethiopian government must look beyond the traditional "band aid" responses to disasters by using approaches that are more cost-effective, sustainable and better suited to the population, international aid agency Oxfam says in a new report. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Monday, October 19, 2009 (IRIN) - As countries across East Africa and the Horn of Africa begin to receive El Niño-related enhanced rainfall, disaster risk reduction experts from 10 countries in the region are meeting in Nairobi to develop strategies for reducing the negative impact of the evolving El Niño phenomenon. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Forty years after the rights of Africa’s refugees were enshrined in a landmark convention, the continent’s leaders are due to make legal history again by adopting a new instrument to assist people displaced within the borders of their own country. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Africa hosts at least 11 million of the world's 25 million conflict-affected IDPs. Millions more are displaced annually by natural disasters. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Most IDPs in Africa have been forced out of their homes by conflict, either between government forces and armed opponents or between communities. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - The objectives of the Convention (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Wednesday, October 14, 2009 (IRIN) - Designed to be safe havens in times of disaster, health facilities are vulnerable to upheaval when catastrophe strikes, according to the UN, which is focusing on hospital safety for International Day for Disaster Reduction. (irinnews.org)

The Afar Triple Junction: A region in Ethiopia where the three sections of the earth's crust meet and cause volcanoes.

(Ethiopian Music, News) - Blame famine on trade restrictions, not on climate change or a lack of Western aid.

Today is World Food Day and, once again, millions of people in East Africa are starving. Some have sought to turn this tragedy into opportunity. Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi blames Western-induced climate change, and demands that rich countries cut greenhouse gas emissions and provide more aid. These views are echoed by the World Bank, Oxfam, Christian Aid and that bellwether of bad ideas, Gordon Brown. But such top-down solutions are doomed to failure. If Africans are to to weather their existing and future climates, the solutions must come from the bottom up. (Topix.net)

Being a university freshman is an exciting time for any young person, but many students get carried away, partying too hard and taking sexual risks. (AllAfrica)

The ONLF guerrilla's officials have claimed victory over heavy fighting between their forces and the Ethiopian troops in the Somali region under the control of Ethiopia, official told Shabelle radio on Wednesday. (AllAfrica)