WHO donates lifesaving medicines and supplies to the Afar region of Ethiopia
The World Health Organization (WHO) donated an assortment of emergency and essential medicines and medical supplies totaling 19.5 metric tons (MT) to the Afar Region […]
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WHO provides on-site laboratory training at the National Influenza Centre in Ethiopia
To expedite the end-to-end integration of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 surveillance, the WHO Ethiopia Country Office and the WHO Regional Office for Africa organized a two-week […]
WHO supports Ethiopia’s response to a dengue fever outbreak in Somali Region
(WHO African Region) – The World Health Organization (WHO) Ethiopia country office is working with Somali Regional Health Bureau to contain the spread of dengue […]
UN urges Ethiopia to provide unhindered access to whole of Tigray to protect civilians
GENEVA (OHCHR) – Seven weeks after the conflict began in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the continuing lack of overall humanitarian access, coupled with an […]
WHO calls for equitable access to future COVID-19 vaccines in Africa
The African Union has endorsed the need for Africa to develop a framework to actively engage in the development and access to COVID-19 vaccines. BRAZZAVILLE […]
Coronavirus: Up to 190,000 people could die of COVID-19 in Africa if not controlled, says WHO
BRAZZAVILLE (WHO Africa) – Eighty-three thousand to 190,000 people in Africa could die of COVID-19 and 29 million to 44 million could get infected in the […]
VIDEO ― The Ethiopian migrants who make the desperate journey to Saudi Arabia via Yemen
Women and girls as young as 13 are among the most vulnerable of the tens of thousands of migrants making the long and perilous trek […]
WHO ramps up preparedness for novel coronavirus in the African region
WHO has identified 13 top priority countries, including Ethiopia, which either have direct links or a high volume of travel to China. Novel coronavirus screening […]
US-based Ethiopian researcher Yohannes Haile-Selassie is one of Nature’s ten people who mattered in science in 2019
Native Ethiopian and a palaeontologist at the world-renowned Cleveland Museum of Natural History (Cleveland, OH), Yohannes Haile-Selassie, PhD, is named one of the ten people […]
Ethiopian woman, who works on promoting clean water and sanitation, receives OU’s International Water Prize
NORMAN, OK (OU) – Martha Gebeyehu, coordinator for Ethiopia’s Water Expertise and Training Centre¤, is named the recipient of the 2019 International Water Prize at […]