Addis Fortune (Addis Ababa)
11 March 2008
The project that envisages constructing a 'nations and nationalities village' in Adwa Park, off the road around Bole overpass and the road to Gerji, seems to have been engulfed with challenges.
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Nearly 9 million people in Ethiopia's pastoral regions will need food aid this year despite a projected bumper harvest for 2007/08, a U.S.-funded research group said on Tuesday.
The group -- funded by the aid wing of the U.S. government -- said pastoralists in Ethiopia's Somali, Oromo and Gambella regions were the worst hit. he United Nations said earlier this month that more than one million people were suffering from drought in Ethiopia's Somali and Borena regions.
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