May 16, 2023
Ethiopia: Flooding Kills 45 People in Somali Region, Causes 'Widespread Destruction' in Ethiopia: UN
The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported that flood has caused a widespread destruction of properties and displacement of people in a significant… Read more »
May 15, 2023
Somalia: Ending Recurrent Tragedies in Somalia's 'Flood Town' Qardho
Although floods are a universal tragedy that annually threatens the lives of many people and properties on earth, some nations pay their highest price and make the most effort to… 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 27, 2023
Ethiopia: Heavy Flood Kills Seven in Drought Ravaged Dawa Zone, Somali Region, Displaces IDPs Reeling From Drought
Another disaster has claimed the lives of seven people after a long-awaited rain in the drought hit districts of Dawa zone, Somali region caused a devastating flood. A heavy rain… 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 »
March 17, 2023
Ethiopia: As Drought Catastrophe Looms, Many Succumbing to Death in Somali Region
Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs) from various woredas of Dawa zone, one of the severely hit zones by drought in the Somali region, who are sheltering in two IDP camps in Moyale… Read more »
March 13, 2023
Ethiopia: Drought-Hit Borana Communities Reel Amid Rising Aid Delivery Scandal
Community members in Yabelo, the administrative capital of the drought-hit Borana zone, in Southern Oromia, are reeling in the midst of allegations on the rising cases of… Read more »
March 11, 2023
Ethiopia: Govt 'Dismayed' By Arab League's Resolution on Filling 'Flexibility', Operation of GERD
Ethiopia said it is dismayed by the resolution issued by the Arab League regarding the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Read more »
March 08, 2023
Ethiopia: OPA Says People in Borana Zone Dying of Hunger, Treatable Conditions As Health Impact of Prolonged Drought Gets Severe
The Oromia Physicians' Association (OPA ), a non-governmental professional association, said the prolonged drought in Borana zone of Oromia regional state in Southwestern Ethiopia… Read more »
March 01, 2023
Ethiopia: Despite Alarming Reports, Oromia Region Claims Drought in Borana Not Out of Hand, Govt 'Responding Appropriately'
The Oromia Regional State said that it is responding appropriately to providing emergency assistance to people in need of emergency aid in Borana zone of Oromia region in Southern… Read more »
February 24, 2023
Ethiopia: Coca Cola Announces Subsidy for 30 Plastic Collection Centres
Coca Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) signed an agreement with 30 plastic bottle collection centers in Addis Abeba, to give a subsidy of up to 10 million birr aiming to boost… Read more »
February 16, 2023
Ethiopia: Security Forces Kill Six, Injure More Than 15 People in Wolkite During Protest Against Lack of Water
Residents of Wolkite city, the administrative capital of the restive Gurage zone in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples (SNNP) region, told Addis Standard that the number… 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 31, 2023
Ethiopia: Ongoing Cholera Outbreak Kills 28 in Four Zones of Oromia, Somali Regions, Leaves Close to One Million People At High Risk: UN
The latest report by the UN reveals that the Cholera outbreak has spread out to 66 kebeles of 8 woredas across Bale, Guji and West Arsi zones of Oromia and 2 woredas of Liban zone… Read more »
December 23, 2022
Ethiopia: Education Cannot Wait Announces U.S.$5 Million Grant in Response to Drought i
In response to a devastating drought that has impacted 1.6 million children, taken lives and pushed millions into hunger, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) announced today a US$5 million… Read more »
December 16, 2022
Ethiopia: Skepticism, Higher Prices Drag Govt's Effort to Encourage Use of EVs in Ethiopia
Electric Vehicles (EV) are slowly gaining momentum on the roads in Ethiopia's capital Addis Abeba, as the government exempted them from value added tax and excise tax since… Read more »
December 01, 2022
Ethiopia: African Development Fund Approves $13.95 M Grant for Borana Resilien
The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund has approved a $13.95 million grant to the Government of Ethiopia to implement the first phase of a livelihood improvement… Read more »
November 19, 2022
Ethiopia: Climate-Related Shocks 'Devastate' Lives and Livelihoods of Nearly 17 Million Pastoralists, Agro-Pastoralist in Ethiopia
A new report released by the UN climate-related shocks continue to devastate the lives and livelihoods of nearly 17 million pastoralists and agro-pastoralist families in the… Read more »
October 25, 2022
Ethiopia: Flood in Gambella Region Displaces More Than 185, 000 People
A new data released by the UN said that at least 185,200 people (37,040 households) were internally displaced and an additional 79,631 people (15,927 households) were affected by… Read more »
October 21, 2022
Ethiopia: France Grants Five Million Euro for Preservation, Restoration of Lalibela
The Ministry of Finance of Ethiopia and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed yesterday a €5 million (260 000 000 Birr) grant agreement to conduct… Read more »
October 07, 2022
Ethiopia: ONLF Calls for Urgent Action On Establishment of 'Emergency Drought Task Force' in Somali Region
- The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), a leading opposition party in Ethiopia's Somali regional state, says urgent action by federal and state governments is needed to… Read more »
September 07, 2022
Ethiopia: News - People in Need Provides Safe Water to More Than 8,300 Inhabitants in Konso Zone
People In Need (PIN), a non-governmental, non-profit organization, launched a water development project with support from the European Union's Humanitarian Aid department. "So far,… Read more »
September 05, 2022
East Africa: Ethiopia Calls On Nile Basin States to Expedite Coming Into Force of Agreement
Demeke Mekonnen, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, called on all the Nile Basin riparian states to "expedite the coming into force of" the… Read more »
August 22, 2022
Ethiopia: Flooding in Gambella Region Displaces More Than 4000 Households #AfricaClimateCrisis
Gatbel Moon, disaster risk management bureau head of the Gembella regional state, said that more than four thousand households have been displaced from their homes due to flooding… Read more »