Ethiopia Struggles to Feed Itself 20 Yrs After Famine
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A ragged band of children emerges ghost-like from mists in Ethiopia's highlands, thrusting bunches of carrots at a car full of foreigners.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia -- She was famine's poster child -- a 3-year-old Ethiopian girl snatched from death and gazing at the world through exhausted eyes, her emaciated body wrapped in a white burial shroud.
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Isayas Gabriel remembers when tens of thousands of his fellow soldiers were cut down during Ethiopia's last war with Eritrea, a 2 1/2 year bloodbath over a seemingly insignificant border town called Badme.
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NAIROBI -- The Ethiopian government is blockading emergency food aid and choking off trade to large parts of a remote region in the eastern part of the country that is home to a rebel force, putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk of starvation, Western diplomats and humanitarian officials say.
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Malnutrition could kill 18,000 children a year in Benin between now and 2013 unless hunger is made a public health priority, a health official said at a regional meeting on nutrition in Africa.
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A new analysis of bones unearthed nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia has pushed the fossil record of modern humans back to nearly 200,000 years ago &#151; perhaps close to the dawn of the species.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia  - In the shadows of his dingy workshop in a northern Ethiopian town, Azemeraw Zeleke stoops over a baffling array of cylinders, tubes and handles.
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Travel: Seven years behind us, Ethiopia celebrates its new millennium on September 11.  Bob Maddams offers a guide to a year-long festival over there and over here.
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Despite an uptick in the birthrate, the country is still heading for demographic disaster
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African economies face a daunting challenge to catch up with the rest of the world after missing out on two decades of growth, a new report by the World Bank has said.
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Ethiopia remains on the brink of disaster because it is failing to deal with spiraling population growth, slow economic growth and environmental degradation fueling its near perpetual crises, a United Nations report said Monday.
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Ethiopia's disaster response agency has appealed for 7.6 million dollars (5.8 million euros) to help hundreds of thousands of flood-affected people in the country's southeastern Somali state.
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Sudanâs Darfur region, already engulfed in a conflict that has forced 1.8 million people to flee their homes, now faces a new threat from drought which is drying up wells and could lead to widespread hunger next year, the top US aid official says.
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The blockade in the central Ogaden region of Ethiopia puts hundreds of thousands of people at risk of starvation, Western diplomats and humanitarian officials say.
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LACOR CAMP, Uganda  - Refugees forced into crowded camps by northern Uganda's two-decade civil war need many things: food, doctors, toilets, bore holes for drinking water, schools -- and computers?
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People across South Asia struggle to cope with sudden and severe shortages of affordable wheat and rice.
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The governmentâs inability to manage a reverse exodus has left the most vulnerable in an uneasy limbo.