Dr. Meshesha Shewarega, Executive Director of CCRDA, has been elected Board member of the Charities and Societies Agency (CSA) in a landmark election held on ......FULL STORY
is an indigenous, non-governmental, and not-for-profit development organization. It was founded by committed, visionary and volunteer Ethiopians in February 1984 as Ethiopian Relief Organization (ERO). ......READ MORE
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UNAIDS Executive Director and Under- Secretary General of the United Nations, Michel Sidibe, said Ethiopia is making impressive progress in curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS. Speaking at a discussion held at the Federal HIV/AIDS.........FULL STORY
An open letter signed by 10 African celebrities, written to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi as well as many African leaders, called the continent’s performance in maternal and child health scandalous for the continent, the future of which lies with women and children........FULL STORY
Los Angeles Lakers basketball star and UNICEF Spain Ambassador Pau Gasol has just spent a week visiting UNICEF-supported education, nutrition and child protection programmes in Ethiopia – and sharing his time with children who live under very difficult conditions here.........FULL STORY
The township of Ayaber in northern Ethiopia is about as isolated as it gets. Sitting on the side of the Mezezo Escarpment in the Amahara Region of Ethiopia, Ayaber is almost two miles above sea level and at least two hazardous hours .......FULL STORY
The Delegation of the European Union to Ethiopia has awarded grant contracts to 12 Ethiopian civil society organizations (CSOs) worth about 1.6 million euro from the European Commission Civil Society Fund in Ethiopia programme.......FULL STORY
The Borana Zone in southern Ethiopia is a semi-arid region in which rural communities depend mostly on livestock farming (mostly pastoralists) and small-scale agriculture. Both activities are highly constrained by water availability, there being ......FULL STORY
The European Commission awarded on Friday a €15 million aid fund to address the food shortage and prevent hunger, malnutrition and epidemics to the disaster affected population in Ethiopia. “The majority of the population.......FULL STORY