2020-12-28 The Human Cost of Ethiopia’s Fighting in Tigray Grows
People who fled fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray area continue to tell stories of suffering as they gather in refugee camps. At a simple medical center in Sudan, a doctor who…
2020-12-24 Rights Groups Concerned Over Safety of Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia
Reports of attacks on Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s Tigray area are causing concern among human rights groups. About 96,000 Eritrean refugees lived in four camps in Tigray before the conflict…
2020-12-13 International Investors Concerned About Ethiopia
Ethiopia has invested billions of dollars to build new dams, railways, roads and industrial centers for more than 10 years. The goal has been to change the mainly agricultural nation…
2020-12-01 UN: Food Has Run Out for Nearly 100,000 Refugees in Ethiopia
The United Nations says food has now run out for the nearly 100,000 Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray area. “The camps will have now run out of food supplies…
2020-11-12 Refugees Tell About Conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray Area
Filimon heard the sound of heavy weapons in his Ethiopian border town, and he started to run. Filimon is an Ethiopian refugee who spoke to the Associated Press, or AP.…
2020-08-08 From Outside, Ethiopia’s Disapora Pushes for Change
With more than 2.5 million Ethiopians living outside of Ethiopia, the diaspora is not only large, but powerful. The Oromo are Ethiopia’s biggest ethnic group. In 2015, members of the…
2015-12-01 Ethiopia Circus Helps Youths to Juggle Life
Circus groups from seven African countries showcased their skills over the weekend at the first African Circus Arts Festival in Ethiopia. Juggling, balancing, gymnastics and other circus tricks were on…
2015-11-26 Worries of Famine After Drought in Ethiopia
Drought and famine killed more than 400,000 people in Ethiopia in the early 1980s. The country’s government is seeking aid to make sure that doesn’t happen again. In a country…
2015-01-28 Rights Group Accuses Ethiopia of Suppressing Media
An international rights group is accusing the government in Ethiopia of systematically suppressing media before the country’s elections in May. Human Rights Watch released a report on the subject last…
2014-12-27 US, Ethiopia Join to Train Women Farmers
The U.S. is awarding $15,000 each to five pairs of U.S. and Ethiopian universities for research and development projects. One partnership is between the University of Maryland and Debre Birhan…
2014-02-28 Ethiopia Cuts Child Deaths by Two-Thirds
Hello again, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. I’m Steve Ember in Washington. Hundreds of thousands of children become infected with the AIDS virus every year.…
2013-06-10 Street Children in Ethiopia Need Shelter – Not Getting It
From VOA Learning English, welcome to AS IT IS! Hello, I’m Steve Ember. Today on our program, we learn that life is not so sweet for sugar farmers in Nigeria,…
2013-10-23 Ethiopia Cuts Child Death Rate by Two-Thirds
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. The United Nations Children’s Fund is praising Ethiopia for reaching one of the Millennium Development Goals on child survival. UNICEF officials…