June 07, 2023
Ethiopia: World Food Programme Refutes Report Saying Senior Staff in Ethiopia Resigned
The World Food Program (WFP) has denied what it described as an inaccurate media report about the resignation of its senior leadership in Ethiopia. Read more »
June 02, 2023
Ethiopia: Latest Fertilizer Demand By Amhara Peasantry Was Simmering for Over a Year, Unaddressed
Farmers in Amhara region queuing to demand fertilizer. Photo: Amhara Media Corporation. Read more »
May 29, 2023
Ethiopia: Hunger Related Death Rises in Tigray Amidst Ongoing Investigation Into Food Aid Theft, Persisted Suspension
Authorities in the Tigray region are reporting a rising number of deaths as they work hard to finalize an investigation into food aid theft that led to suspension of humanitarian… Read more »
May 09, 2023
Ethiopia: Govt Opts for Solar Water Pumps, Ends Importing of Diesel Pumps #AfricaClimateCrisis
The Ministry of Irrigation and Lowlands has announced that it has decided to end imports of water pumps that run on diesel and/or gasoline and instead focus on green energy… Read more »
April 13, 2023
Ethiopia: Despite Massive Resources Mobilization, Drought Victim IDPs in Borana Zone Complain Inadequate, Unfair Aid Distribution
It has been more than a year since the pastoralists of Dubluk district in Borena Zone of Oromia Region, who lost all their livestock and properties to the drought that occurred as… Read more »
March 24, 2023
Ethiopia: Locust Swarms in Three Districts of Northwestern Tigray Threaten Farmers Reeling From War Impacts
Tigray's Agriculture Bureau has said that locust swarms are threatening the livelihoods of farmers yet to recover from impacts of the two years' war in three districts in… Read more »
March 21, 2023
Ethiopia: Amid Soaring Price and Chronic Shortage, Ethiopia's Staple Grain Becomes Latest Political Boiling Point
Ethiopia's capital city Addis Abeba is hit by unprecedented price hike coupled with chronic shortage of Teff, Ethiopia's staple grain. But for political actors and activists… Read more »
March 20, 2023
Ethiopia: Konso Zone in Need of Urgent Assistance As Drought Devastates Thousands
Solomon Soka, member of the House of Representatives for Konso Nation and director general of Information Network Security Administration (INSA), requested urgent attention to the… Read more »
February 27, 2023
Ethiopia: Drought-Hit Pastoralists in Somali Region Linger Between Life and Death
Pastoralist communities in Afder zone, one of the three drought stricken zones in Somali Regional State, say they are lingering between life and death without food and water after… Read more »
February 20, 2023
Ethiopia: After All Livestock Are Dead, What Is Left for Borana Pastoralists?
The earth's climate has been changing from time to time due to various anthropogenic and natural factors. Raise in global temperature, sea level rise, and increased fossil fuel… Read more »
February 02, 2023
Ethiopia: 'We Have Given Up On Our Cattle, We Are Now Striving to Save Our Lives': Borana Drought Victim
The Borana zone of Oromia region in Southern Ethiopia is one of the places harshly hit by the worst drought in 40 years in East Africa. More than 800,000 residents of the zone are… Read more »
January 26, 2023
Ethiopia: More Than 70,000 Displaced People Suffering From Hunger, Disease in Amhara Region
More than 70,000 internally displaced people sheltered in make shift camps in Abergele and Tsagebej districts in Wag-hemra zone of Amhara regional state for more than two years are… Read more »
November 17, 2022
Ethiopia: Ukraine Ministry Says Ship With 27,000 Tonnes of Wheat Leaves for Ethiopia
The NORD VIND, a ship carrying Ukrainian wheat for Ethiopia, is moving along a "grain corridor" as part of the Grain from Ukraine initiative, according to the press service of the… Read more »
November 10, 2022
Ethiopia: Mekelle Sees Food Item Prices Slow Down Following Ethiopia Cessation of Hostilities Agreement
Following the permanent cessation of hostilities agreement signed between the Ethiopian government and the representatives of the Tigray people's Liberation Front (TPLF) on 02… Read more »
November 01, 2022
Ethiopia: Pastoral Farmers Receive 2.87 Million Birr to Prepare for Drought
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has introduced a livestock insurance program in support of long-term resiliency efforts that help communities recover from the… Read more »
October 06, 2022
Ethiopia: Germany, France Offer Support to Transport, Distribute 50,000 Tons of Wheat Donated By Ukraine for Ethiopia, Somalia
Germany and France offered their support to transport and distribute 50,000 tons of wheat donated by Ukraine for Ethiopia and Somalia, two of the countries in the Horn of Africa… Read more »
September 22, 2022
East Africa: Ukraine Donates 50,000 Tons of Wheat to Ethiopia, Somalia
Ukraine's Cabinet Ministry announced that Ukraine will reimburse Ethiopia and Somalia for $11.4 million worth of wheat. Read more »
August 27, 2022
Ethiopia: 'We Are Being Tactically Pushed Out of the Export Market' - Khat Farmers, Traders
Kahat farmers and traders in Hararghe, Oromia complained that they are being forced to leave the export market as the government has entered the export market through its own… Read more »
August 09, 2022
Ethiopia: UN Agencies, Ethiopia Appeal for U.S.$73 Million to Feed Over 750,000 Refugees
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Ethiopian Government Refugees and Returnees Service (RRS) appealed today for US$73m to provide… Read more »
July 29, 2022
Ethiopia: At Least 12 People Die From Hunger in Drought Ravaged Guji Zone, Says Official - Residents Put Figure At 20
Local authorities confirmed to media that at least 12 people have died of hunger in drought ravaged Guji zone of the Oromia regional state. Community members however have put the… Read more »
June 30, 2022
Ethiopia: Drought in Pastoral Areas - The Missing Link Between Problem and Solution?
Ethiopia's pastoral regions are suffering from yet another episode of drought, the fourth in the previous five years. Drought is not a new occurrence in these locations; rather,… Read more »
June 23, 2022
Ethiopia: FAO Cautions Limited Access to Fertilizers, Seeds in Tigray "Major Threat" As Planting Season Approaches
Farmers in parts of northern Ethiopia are in serious danger of losing the main planting season (June-August) if they do not receive urgent support from the international community… Read more »
June 21, 2022
Ethiopia: More Than 8 Million Ethiopians Acutely Food Insecure - IOM
Many Regions in Ethiopia are currently experiencing one of the most severe La Niña-induced droughts in recent decades, with more than 8 million people acutely food insecure,… Read more »
June 16, 2022
Ethiopia: Save the Children Warns There is Soaring Child Malnutrition Across East, South-Eastern Ethiopia
Malnutrition rates across east and south-eastern Ethiopia have soared in recent months as drought, displacement and conflict take their toll with about 185,000 children now… Read more »
June 15, 2022
Ethiopia: Armyworms Spread to Seven Zones, Three Special Woredas in SNNP State
The Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Region (SNNPR) Agriculture Bureau said the new arrivals of armyworms have settled on, and affected 334,760 hectares of land in… Read more »