News stories by Blain Biset

ADDIS ABABA, Jan 29 (IPS) - The African Union summit failed to provide a breakthrough in the ongoing negotiations between Sudan and South Sudan when it ended on Monday Jan. 28.

ADDIS ABABA, Jan 27 (IPS) - Every single day, 452 women in sub-Saharan Africa die from pregnancy-related causes; that's 18 women every hour.

ADDIS ABABA, Dic 06 (IPS) - Ethiopia's Anti-Terrorism Proclamation is once again stirring debate in this Horn of Africa nation as lawyer Temam Ababulga challenges the 2009 law in the highly-publicised "Muslim terrorism" case.

BISHOFTU, Ethiopia, Oct 13 (IPS) - China could soon expand its involvement in peace and security issues in Africa, according to government officials, researchers and academics from both the Asian giant and resource-rich continent who met at the second China-Africa Think Tanks Forum in Ethiopia from Oct. 12 to 13.

ADDIS ABABA, Oct 11 (IPS) - While in the last decade an additional 52 million of sub-Saharan Africa’s children enrolled in primary schools, with girl’s enrolment increasing from 54 percent to 74 percent, a large majority of girls - 16 million – are still being denied access to education.

ADDIS ABABA, Oct 11 (IPS) - Africa can ensure food security by producing wheat. New research presented in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this week shows that the continent has the potential to be self-sufficient.