Ethiopian rebels have launched a wide offensive in the southeastern Somali ethnic Ogaden region and recaptured seven towns from government forces, they claimed Saturday...

In the streets of the Ethiopian capital hundreds of disabled people beg, some from makeshift wheelchairs, the less fortunate dragging themselves on their hands from car...

The centerpiece of a treasure trove of new fossils, the skeleton—assigned to a species called Ardipithecus ramidus—belonged to a small-brained, 110-pound...

The first time Tadu Gelana’s mother suggested she get married, Tadu thought she was kidding. Only 14 years old, Tadu had not yet finished school or had her first...

Globally there has been an increase in concern over the environmental degradation and the need for greater environmental protection and management. All ecosystems of...

The spectre of famine has returned to the Horn of Africa nearly a quarter of a century after the world’s pop stars gathered to banish it at Live Aid, raising...

Ethiopia’s Hamer people, a long isolated, pastoral warrior tribe, are increasingly opening up to tourists, a move some fear could endanger age-old traditions with...

Many women living in poverty in Ethiopia, India and Kenya, are excluded from government lending schemes, or face prejudice in banking systems. ActionAid’s...

There are few stories more tragic than the plight of foreign maids in Lebanon. Those familiar with their circumstances now how much they suffer under cruel employers,...

What do you do when you’re an African nation which relies nearly entirely on hydro power for your electricity, and you’re in the middle of a drought? If you’re...

The calendar of this east African nation has just turned 2001 and Ethiopia has completed its millennium celebrations that kicked off 11 September 2007 of the...

Some have been brought back home but with complications that need attention.

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Britain has pledged 26.9 million pounds for drought-hit Ethiopia, where some 9.6 million people are in need of emergency food aid, its embassy said...

The U.N. humanitarian office said Monday that food shortages in Ethiopia have reached alarming levels following widespread drought in the country. Relief organizations...

Angelina Jolie, after giving birth to twins and having adopted quite a few others, has now started thinking about the future of her kids. And the first thing that came...

The Governor of the Somali Hiiran region accuses the Ethiopian troops of genocide as he along with other people tries to escape the region. It was the first time...

I was not surprised this morning, to read that exiled Ethiopian leader Haile Mengistu Miriam has had his life sentence for crimes against humanity and the murder of...

The call for Africa to have an agricultural revolution to solve its food security (Leaders, May 10) is timely. But need it be like the green revolution in Asia? That...

Farmers in Ethiopia are better off now than they were four years ago, in part due to better-than-average rains and rising grain prices globally. But there’s...

Ethiopian troops were accused yesterday of slitting the throats of seven Somali men during a raid on a Mogadishu mosque that left 21 people dead, including the...