UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (Nairobi)
Updates on conflicts and news from throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
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April 4
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Africa: Balancing Conservation and People's Access to Land
In the great plains of northern Tanzania, close to the world-famous Serengeti National Park, a bitter row has broken out over an attempt to designate 1,500sqkm of Loliondo District... Read more »
March 16
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Ethiopia: Keeping Pastoralist Children in School in Ethiopia
Thousands of children in the pastoral regions of Ethiopia are dropping out of school despite government and donor efforts to bring schools closer to them. Recurrent natural... Read more »
February 7
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Ethiopia: Linking Bean Farmers to Formal Markets
Over the years, small-scale farmers growing white pea beans in Ethiopia have sold their produce through the informal market, relying largely on middlemen who dictate prices and... Read more »
January 29
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Africa: Israeli Furore Over Drugs for Ethiopian Jews
The director of the Ministry of Health in Israel, Roni Gamzo, has issued a formal directive instructing that gynaecologists should not inject women with the contraceptive... Read more »
December 23, 2012
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Ethiopia: Jemmal Ahmed, 'I Survived a Deadly Trip to Yemen'
Jemmal Ahmed, 21, was recently deported back to Ethiopia after a nine-month stay in a prison in Yemen for illegally entering the country a few months earlier. His intention had... Read more »
December 21, 2012
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Ethiopia: Djibouti-Ethiopia - Irregular Migration Continues Unabated [analysis]
More people from the Horn of Africa region, especially Ethiopia and Somalia, are crossing international borders as irregular migrants - lacking official documentation or approval -... Read more »
November 16, 2012
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East Africa: Enough in the Nile to Share, Little to Waste
As Ethiopia's massive dam-building plans continue to cause disquiet in downstream Egypt, new research suggests there is sufficient water in the Nile for all 10 countries it flows... Read more »
November 15, 2012
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Ethiopia: What Caused the Religious Protests in Ethiopia?
Tensions have been simmering over several months between Muslims and the government, with thousands holding demonstrations in protest at the government's alleged interference in... Read more »
November 13, 2012
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Somalia: Ethiopia-Somalia - the Cost of Being a Good Neighbour
Ethiopians would like to continue to be good Samaritans to the hundreds of thousands seeking refuge from drought and conflict in neighbouring Somalia, but massive camps in fragile... Read more »
November 7, 2012
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Ethiopia: Cooperatives Championed Amid NGO Restrictions
As Ethiopia imposes increasing restrictions on foreign-backed NGOs, cooperatives - which have boosted the country's coffee industry - are being championed as a preferred model for... Read more »
October 29, 2012
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Ethiopia: Dealing With the Ogaden Rebellion
Any hopes for an imminent end to conflict in Ethiopia’s Somali region were dashed earlier this month when talks between the government and the separatist Ogaden National... Read more »
October 8, 2012
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East Africa: Floods Hit Thousands
Above-average seasonal rains in parts of the East and Horn of Africa have affected tens of thousands of people, displacing families and restricting access to many in need, say... Read more »
September 18, 2012
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Ethiopia: Farmers Too Hungry to Adapt
Small farmers in the developing world who are going hungry for long periods of time - in some cases for up to half the year in Ethiopia's Borana region - are failing to find ways... Read more »
August 23, 2012
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Ethiopia: Food Security and the Meles Legacy
During his two decades in power, Meles Zenawi committed himself to ending Ethiopia's dependence on food aid. With his death, IRIN looks at his legacy in promoting food... Read more »
August 21, 2012
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Ethiopia: Getting a Better Deal for Coffee Farmers
Ethiopia is regarded as arabica coffee's birthplace, but while the country's high-quality coffee has made it to the gourmet shelves of major coffee houses around the world, many of... Read more »
August 14, 2012
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Ethiopia: Surge of Doctors to Strengthen Health System
Ethiopia is preparing for a flood of medical doctors within "three to four years", an influx meant to save a public health system that has been losing doctors and specialists to... Read more »
July 11, 2012
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Africa: Human Smugglers Profit As Tragedies Multiply
When Abdo Giro*, a 55-year-old evangelist minister and political dissident from southern Ethiopia, paid smugglers 55,000 birr (US$3,095) to take him from the Kenyan border town of... Read more »
June 27, 2012
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Ethiopia: Safe Water - a Glass Half Full
More than half of all Ethiopians have access to an improved source of drinking water, but the country still has much work to do if it hopes to achieve its goal of providing access... Read more »
May 25, 2012
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Ethiopia: Poor Rains Prompt Calls for More Food
Aid agencies are calling for more food assistance for areas in southern and northeastern Ethiopia where erratic rains have adversely affected the mid-February to May 'Belg' crop. Read more »
April 26, 2012
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Ethiopia: Still Too Many Deaths in Childbirth
A lack of awareness of the importance of skilled hospital deliveries in Ethiopia, cultural beliefs, and transport challenges in rural areas are causing a high number of deaths... Read more »
April 20, 2012
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Africa: Talking Truth to Power [analysis]
On the surface it had all the trappings of a gathering of current and former heads of state: Legions of presidential bodyguards speaking into their sleeves, electronic security at... Read more »
March 30, 2012
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Ethiopia: Late Rains Threaten Food Security
Late and erratic mid-February to May ('Belg') rains could significantly reduce crop yields in central and southern Ethiopia and adversely affect food security, warn officials. Read more »
March 27, 2012
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Somalia: Border Town in a Fix Over Water
Water scarcity in Tog-Wajale, a town straddling the border between northwest Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland and Ethiopia, is threatening the health and livelihoods... Read more »
March 15, 2012
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Somalia: Thousands Displaced By Fighting in Gedo
Several thousand people have been displaced by clashes between Al-Shabab insurgents and Somali troops assisted by Ethiopian and Kenyan soldiers in Somalia's southwestern Gedo... Read more »
February 3, 2012
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Africa: Malaria Mortality 'Underestimated' [analysis]
A new attempt to quantify malaria deaths over the past 30 years suggests the death toll, especially among adults, has been greatly underestimated. The figures also show the... Read more »
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