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BADESSA Friday, August 29, 2008 (IRIN) - In normal times, the weekly market in Badessa town, Damot Woyde district of Wolayita zone in Ethiopia’s Southern Region, fills with fresh food as farmers and traders bring in crops from the surrounding hills. (irinnews.org)

NEW YORK Thursday, July 24, 2008 (IRIN) - It's the year 2018. A massive crisis is devastating the Horn of Africa, combining drought, huge migrations, urban desperation and there's little in the way of safety nets. Meanwhile, a major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault has hammered California. US government agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are already overstretched. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (IRIN) - The urban poor in the Horn of Africa are the new face of hunger in a region where up to 14.6 million people now require humanitarian assistance due to poor rains, high food and fuel prices, conflict, animal disease, inflation and poverty. (irinnews.org)

Rising food costs in Ethiopia, where prices have surged up to 500 percent over the last year, was the focus of the final day of the UN humanitarian chief's visit to the country.

At least five people were killed in south-central Somalia on Friday after Islamist insurgents targeted an Ethiopian army convoy that left the town of Baidoa, sources said. (AllAfrica)

This report presents the results of retrospective surveys in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda on young women's experiences of violence before they were 18 years old. Surveys were taken of a group of 500 young women in each of the capital cities of their respective countries. The surveys found evidence of widespread experiences of violence among girls: on average, eight out of every ten girls surveyed reported being physically abused, with a high incidence of sexual abuse including rape, and almost all experienced some (eldis.org)

Ethiopia accounts for the largest youth population in Sub-Saharan Africa, but there has been little research into the major problem of youth unemployment in the country. This study aims to address this gap by analysing a set of youth employment indicators drawn primarily from the 2001 Ethiopia Labour Force Survey. The study looks specifically at the labour market outcomes of young people and key factors influencing these outcomes, including early labour market entry and human capital accumulation. It also examines the (eldis.org)

ADDIS ABABA Wednesday, August 20, 2008 (IRIN) - Bellissima, on bustling Gabon Street in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, could be just another upmarket café, except that each order comes with a packet of 'Sensation' condoms, and is served in 'Sensation' cups by staff wearing 'Sensation' T-shirts. (irinnews.org)

LIMBÉ Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (IRIN) - The persistent and increasing outbreaks of violence against members of the gay community in Africa are jeopardising efforts undertaken to combat HIV, both within this group and across the population as a whole, AIDS activists warned at a recent meeting in Limbé, Cameroon. (irinnews.org)

Africa has at last found its feet and its people are not only dynamic but giving the continent an enterprising outlook, according to Ethiopia's weekly 'Capital'. The business-focused tabloid this week says the ...

In normal times, the weekly market in Badessa town, Damot Woyde district of Wolayita zone in Ethiopia's Southern Region, fills with fresh food as farmers and traders bring in crops from the surrounding hills.

Reporters sans Frontieres 28 August 2008 Reporters Without Borders has learned the good news that Amare Aregawi, the editor of the privately-owned Amharic-language weekly Reporter, was released yesterday ...

Muslims today mark the first Friday of the month of Ramadhan with calls for the release of Kenyan youths deported to Ethiopia two years ago. (AllAfrica)

This paper reports on a study to generate national information on violence against children in Ethiopia. It targeted Addis Ababa and the regional states of Oromia, Amhara, Tigray and the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State (SNNPRS). The research focused on physical, psychological and sexual violence against children at home, in schools and in the community. The document is divided into several chapters that explore the: policy and legal framework and its implementation publics (eldis.org)

This report examines the causes and consequences of livelihood vulnerability in Somali Region, Ethiopia. Examining households coping mechanisms the author finds that rationing of food consumption is an immediate response to shortage, as it is costless and easily reversible. Other responses include: call on support from relatives mechanisms for redistributing food, cash, animals, seeds and labour, either on a reciprocal basis or from wealthier to poorer households formal safety nets are limited (eldis.org)

This report, from the Global AIDS Programme, is the product of seven studies which reviewed the progress being made in implementing the UNGASS (UN General Assembly Special Session) Declaration of Commitment (DoC). The studies were conducted in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti, Latvia, Malawi, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The report considers: national responses; service delivery, including antiretroviral therapy, care and support and services for orphans and vulnerable children; non-governmental stakeholders, (eldis.org)

Using the case study of the Sustainable Agricultural and Environmental Rehabilitation (SAERT) program in the northern Ethiopia regional state of Tigray, the author examines the potential and significance of installing small-scale irrigation dams to increase agricultural productivity and food production, particularly in areas prone to waterborne diseases. Some of the findings and policy implications presented in the paper include: using the case study of the microdam development project in Tigray, the net (eldis.org)

This paper examines the Ethiopian Government's emphasis on the intensification of agricultural activities in order to increase livelihood options and provide better safety nets for the poor (e.g. through food or cash-for-work programmes). The report explores the impact on child labour and child schooling of public policy interventions formulated within the PRSP, and looks at how changes are mediated through gender and rural/urban differences. The key findings include: children were commonly involved in (eldis.org)

This report gives an overview of an Ethiopia pilot project for mainstreaming and breaking the silence of HIV/AIDS in the workplace within NGOs. The paper defines internal mainstreaming as having to do with the adjustment of policy and practice in recognition of an NGOs susceptibility to the impact of HIV/AIDS and to reduce its vulnerability. Internal mainstreaming not only covers such activities as HIV prevention and treatment for staff, volunteers, and possibly dependents, but also on modifying the way the (eldis.org)

The Poverty Reduction Growth Facility (PGRF) consists of a series of targets designed to encourage transformation in the economies and policies of the participating countries, with a view of promoting macroeconomic stability, economic growth and poverty reduction with a six year framework. This research paper assess the impact of the PGRF on social services in Ethiopia, Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania. The studies focused on intermediate outcomes, i.e., the nature of the PRGF strategy and policy framework under-pinning (eldis.org)

This paper explores the circumstances in which the Pastoral Affairs Standing Committee (PASC) can be an effective lobby for pro-poor, pro-pastoralist policy change and what external assistance it requires in this role. It reviews the composition of the PASC, roles, legislative activities, representation and responsibilities. Conclusions include: the committee has some capacity limitations that affect its ability to work on pastoral development more efficiently including lack of transport (eldis.org)

ADDIS ABABA Wednesday, August 27, 2008 (IRIN) - Flash floods following torrential rains in Ethiopia's Gambella regional state have spread to four woredas [districts] and displaced thousands more people, an official in the area said. (irinnews.org)

Thousands of Ethiopians on Thursday cheered the long-awaited restoration of the 1,700-year-old Axum obelisk to its original site in the country's north.

SEKE, 4 September 2008 - Martne Harja had prepared her three-quarter hectare piece of land at Galcha Seke village in Wolayita zone of Ethiopia's Southern Region for the planting season, but her seven children ...

Ethiopia's military commitment to Somalia is not open-ended, and it has to balance its responsibilities in Mogadishu with domestic political priorities, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said in an interview ...

Editor's note: Americans are adopting fewer orphans overseas except in one country: Ethiopia.

Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf and his prime minister signed a deal on Tuesday to work together after a weeks-long rift that threatened to wreck their interim government.

Nicholas Benequista Addis Ababa The global food crisis has forced families to make grievous choices.

United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes expressed yesterday that persistent relief aid to the drought affected areas of Ethiopia is needed in order for the dire situation not to worsen to famine. (AllAfrica)

U.S. counter-terrorism policies and support for the Ethiopian-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Somalia have helped create an increasingly desperate humanitarian and security situation in the East African nation, whose population has become increasingly radicalised and anti-U.S., according to a new report by a major U.S. human rights group. (AllAfrica)

Martne Harja had prepared her three-quarter hectare piece of land at Galcha Seke village in Wolayita zone of Ethiopia's Southern Region for the planting season, but her seven children found themselves without food after the rains failed. (AllAfrica)