Ethiopia spearheads green energy in sub-Saharan Africa
From the sky, the 84 glimmering white turbines at Ashegoda wind farm shoot up from the ground like massive spokes, standing out high amid vast expanses of yellow wheat.
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Ethiopia spearheads green energy in sub-Saharan Africa
From the sky, the 84 glimmering white turbines at Ashegoda wind farm shoot up from the ground like massive spokes, standing out high amid vast expanses of yellow wheat.
Ethiopia starts Blue Nile diversion
Ethiopia has begun diverting the Blue Nile as part of a giant dam project, officials said on Wednesday, prompting talks in Cairo between downstream states Sudan and Egypt.
Everyday heroes: 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize winners
The Goldman Prize awards environmental activists.
Wikipedia to be free on mobiles in Africa, Middle East
Millions of people in Africa and the Middle East will be able to benefit from free, unlimited access to the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia through their mobile phone, starting later this year
Climate change killing trees across the Sahel, says study
Trees throughout Africa's Sahel region — vital to peoples' livelihoods — are dying as a result of long-term drought linked to climate change, according to a study.
AFRICA: Urgent drive to act on road safety
Increasing traffic accident deaths are a likely consequence of economic and population growth in Africa unless leaders on the continent, already beset by the world's worst road-safety record, implement a wide-ranging plan to address the second leading [...]
Wolves in Ethiopia Disappearing Thanks to Domestic Dog Diseases
Did you have any idea there are wolves in Africa? Jackals, sure. Painted dogs, yep. But wolves? Turns out the Ethiopian wolf is the only wolf species on the continent, and lives exclusively in the high-altitude areas of Ethiopia. But it is a hair's [...]
WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord
Embassy dispatches show America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for Copenhagen accord
UN agency reports significant progress in reducing new HIV infections
The number of new HIV infections is steadily falling or stabilizing in most parts of the world, with the countries with the largest epidemics in Africa leading the way, the United Nations agency coordinating the global AIDS response reported today.
925 million in chronic hunger worldwide
Though improved, global hunger level “unacceptable”
Hydroelectric dams pose threat to tribal peoples, report warns
Dams in Brazil, Ethiopia and Malaysia will force people off land and destroy hunting grounds, says Survival International
Ethiopia’s forest cover triples
ADDIS ABABA, July 15, 2010 (AFP) - The total forest cover of Ethiopia has tripled in size since 2000 as a result of large-scale reforestation campaigns, the authorities announced on Thursday.
UNESCO announces selection of 13 new Biosphere Reserves
The International Coordinating Council of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme has added 13 new sites and five extensions in 15 different countries to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR), which now numbers 564 sites in 109 countries.
Final push to eradicate Guinea worm
Guinea worm, the agonizing water-borne parasite, could be eradicated within “two to three years” from Southern Sudan, health officials say.
Developing countries use insurance as buffer against climate change
FACED with an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, governments in the developing world, the Caribbean included, are taking a more proactive approach to climate change - insurance.
African farms becoming too hot to handle
African farmers will soon face growing seasons hotter than any in their experience. To cope with this rapid climate change, they – and the plant breeders who supply their crops – will need to make big changes, and soon.
Africa is connected !
In 2003, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched the ADEN project in 11 Sub-Saharan African countries. In 2007, 42 ADEN centres located in the areas which needed them the most were connected and 16 new centres should be opened
Improving health through education
In 2004 in Ethiopia, a women’s education program was led by the Red Cross International Committee (Comité International de la Croix-Rouge (CICR)) in 15 villages in the Afar region. Men and women from the region’s semi-nomadic shepherd [...]