Ethiopia

'Extreme urgent need': Starvation haunts Ethiopia's Tigray

Jan 20, 2021 12:32

From “emaciated” refugees to crops burned on the brink of harvest, starvation threatens the survivors of more than two months of fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The first humanitarian workers to arrive after pleading with the Ethiopian government for access describe weakened children dying from diarrhea after drinking from rivers. Shops were looted or depleted weeks ago.
A humanitarian crisis looms in Africa unless Africans act fast to stop the desert locust

Feb 17, 2020 12:05

History is now in danger of repeating itself. But on a much bigger scale. The worst outbreak of desert locusts in decades is currently underway in the Horn of Africa. It is the biggest of its kind in 25 years for Ethiopia and Somalia — and the worst Kenya has seen for 70 years. The impacts of the outbreak in these countries are particularly acute as pastures and crops are being wiped out in communities that were already facing food shortages.
Ethiopian civil war would have far-reaching effects

Jul 20, 2019 05:50

A failed regional coup in Ethiopia has exposed rare divisions in the alliance that has dominated the country for three decades, with two of the four ethnic parties that form the ruling coalition trading insults in a public feud, which is threatening to spiral out of control.