News stories by Omer Redi

Nigist Abebe has grown in confidence over five years on the job. Today she is one of 34,000 rural health extension workers at the heart of Ethiopia's primary health care strategy.

They have spent the better part of their lives destroying the forest, but Kochito Gabre and his cohort are now the guardians of a UNESCO-recognised resource in the Ethiopian highlands. After shrinking to barely half its original size, the Kafa Forest is now a model for sustainable use in the country.

Like most farmers in Ethiopia, Jundi Hajji was expecting that the profit from his wheat harvest would be sufficient to feed his family of eight until the next harvest almost a year from now.

Mesfin Mengistu has been growing trees on his two-hectare farm in Menagesha Woreda for years.

Married at just 13 years of age, Fantaye Adem wishes her life had been different.

Fears that the impact of the global economic meltdown would affect funding to various development areas have been rife. Already, several governments have cut their budgets for HIV and AIDS and bilateral and multilateral funding partners have done likewise.

Opposition parties are troubled by what they say is government’s strategy to keep them out of the general elections in May 2010.

Criticised as system of dividing and ruling people according to their ethnic groups, Ethiopia’s federalism has just become a bone of contention.

Criticised as system of dividing and ruling people according to their ethnic groups, Ethiopia’s federalism has just become a bone of contention.

He has not yet decided where and when it will be, but Ethiopia’s sensational musician Tewodros Kassahun a.k.a. Teddy-Afro, will stage a major concert for the first time after his release from controversial imprisonment.