ACWA Power won 250MW World Bank-backed solar projects in Ethiopia
Riyadh-based ACWA Power was one of five companies that submitted proposals for the solar projects, which are parts of World Bank’s Scaling Solar comprehensive package […]
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Chikungunya disease outbreak affects 20,000 people in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA (CGTN Africa) – Ethiopia announced on 3rd August 2019 that the number of its nationals infected by a chikungunya disease outbreak has reached […]
Researchers discovered “remarkably complete,” 3.8-million-year-old fossil skull in Ethiopia
Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Curator of Physical Anthropology, discovered a “remarkably complete” hominin cranium at Woranso-Mille Research Site in Ethiopia. […]
Ethiopia launches a five-year, $94 million plan to end child marriage and female genital mutilation
ADDIS ABABA (UNICEF Ethiopia) – The Government of Ethiopia has launched a five-year national roadmap to end child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM). The […]
Ethiopia: Government veterinary services benefit from training on sampling techniques from camel slaughterhouses for MERS-CoV testing
ADDIS ABABA (FAO in Ethiopia) – Evidence-based risk mitigation system is required to address the potential threat of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a respiratory […]
Earliest high mountain settlement identified in Ethiopia
An international research team discovered the oldest high mountain dwelling at an altitude of almost 3,500 meters in Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains. (SWI swissinfo.ch) – Stone Age […]
More than 870,000 children in Ethiopia miss out on lifesaving measles, diphtheria and tetanus vaccines in 2018
New global estimates by WHO and UNICEF find dangerous stagnation of global rates of measles, diphtheria and tetanus vaccinations, due to conflict, inequality and complacency […]
Research and Markets: Ethiopia ― Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband – Statistics and Analyses
Ethiopia’s broadband market is set to develop further following substantial increases in international bandwidth, improvements in national fiber backbone infrastructure and the growing availability of […]
Earliest flaked-stone tools found in Ethiopia
Bokol Dora 1 is near Lee Adoyta, Afar (Ethiopia), where in 2013 archaeologists found the fossil jaw bone of a human ancestor dating to about […]
European Union grants EUR 33.5 million to Ethiopia in support of disaster risk reduction
ADDIS ABABA (Ministry of Finance) – The Ethiopian Government and the European Union (EU) signed a financing agreement amounting to EUR 33.5 million (ETB 1.085 […]