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Taking Back Control of Her Life: Hawa’s Story

By Yeneneh Assefa, Mental Health Program Manager, Dollo Ado

Hawa lives in Melkadida, one of the camps in Ethiopia’s Dollo Ado refugee complex. She is 30-years-old and arrived in the camp in 2010, along with her husband and 7 children. Having witnessed her brother’s death, she fled Somalia due to the conflict.

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Tea Talks Change Fartun’s Life, Inspiring Her to Help Others

By Abdihakin Abdulahi, GBV Senior Community Mobilizer, Dollo Ado

June 14, 2013 – Fartun is a 23-year-old Somali refugee residing in Melkadida camp in the Dollo Ado refugee complex in Ethiopia. As a child, Fartun lost her father and lived with her single mother and two brothers in Somalia. After her father's death, she stopped going to school because she had to help her mother make traditional baskets and clothes in order to survive.

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UNIDO and OFID partner to help boost food security in rural Ethiopia

Vienna, Austria, June 19, 2013. The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is partnering with the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) to help finance a project that will help rural communities in northern Ethiopia adopt modern agro-industrial processing technologies and generate new job opportunities.

OFID is supporting the US$2.5 million project with a US$600,000 grant. The grant agreement was signed in Vienna today by UNIDO Director General, Kandeh K. Yumkella, and OFID Director General, Suleiman Jasir Al-Herbish.

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Avoiding and Mitigating FGM/C’s Health Consequences in Ethiopia

More than 7,000 girls in 6 districts are spared the cut

AFAR REGION, Ethiopia — Ten-year-old Sadiya Abubakar had suffered for a long time. What should be a natural regular function – urination– had become an ordeal for her.

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Ethiopia, Afar food insecurity: We’re here to find out what we can do to help

Gillian Moyes, Response Team Leader, Afar, Ethiopia

The landscape of Afar is spectacular. As we drive through sandy desert, black volcanic rock, and white salt flats, I can’t help thinking this strange landscape would be a great location for a sci-fi movie set on a far flung planet.

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Over 28 mln. Birr worth hospital under construction

Gimbi June 11/2013 Construction of a primary level hospital is launched in Nolekaba Woreda, Bube Town of West Wollega Zone in Oromia State with over 28.7 million Birr, the zonal health office said. Project Engineer with the Office, Eng. Mohammed Hussein said the hospital being constructed with the budget allocated by the regional government will enable to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in the health sector. He said the 16 block hospital will have emergency, surgical, mothers' and children's wards, among others. Eng.

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Zone immunizes over 109,000 children against measles

Mizan June 11/2013 More than 109,000 children are immunized against measles in a five-day campaign carried out in Bench Majji Zone of South Ethiopia peoples' State, the zonal health department said. Disease Prevention and Health Development Main Work Process head with the Department, Negere Kostab said the stated number of children are immunized at 247 centers in 247 urban and rural localities. Negere said the children are aged between nine months and five years. Some 247 health workers and volunteers took part in the campaign undertaken from May 30-June 3,2013.

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Construction of 97 safe water projects

DanglaZuria Woreda June 11/2013 Construction of 97 safe water projects is completed in DanglaZuria Woreda, Awi Zone of Amhara State, the woreda water resource development office said. The office told ENA that the projects are undertaken with over 1.2 million Birr secured from the regional government, the woreda administration, donor organizations and the public. The projects include, among others, digging of water wells and development of springs. It said the projects give service to more than 71,300 people.

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Ethiopia, Japan sign grant agreements

Addis Ababa June 10/2013 Ethiopia and Japan here on Monday signed grant agreements amounting to 1.5 billion Birr. Finance and Economic Development State Minister Ahmed Shide and Japanese Ambassador to Ethiopia, Hiroyuki Kishino signed the agreement. Some 1.43 billion Birr of the stated sum will be used for rehabilitation of Lumame-DebreMarkos road while the balance will go for implementation of safe water projects in Amhara State. Ahmed on the occasion said Japan is a long time development partner of Ethiopia.

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Zone immunizes 340,000 children against measles

Shashemene June 10/2013 More than 340,000 children are immunized against measles in West Arssi Zone of Oromia State, the zonal health office said. Deputy Department Head, Hirpa Iticha told ENA that the stated number of children were immunized at 360 centers. The department had set plan to immunize over 315,000 children, he said, adding, the achievement surpassed by 25,000. Hirpa said over 700 health experts from governmental and non-governmental offices have taken part in providing awareness raising education to the public.

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Netherlands to support sesame production in Amhara, Tigray

Gondar June 10/2013 The government of Netherlands expressed readiness to support the ongoing efforts of Amhara and Tigray States to add value and supply sesame to the global market. The government has allocated 1.9 million Euros for implementation of projects in sesame growing areas of the states for the coming three years. Country Project Coordinator , Dr. Geremew Terefe said at a relevant forum that the project is aimed at making sesame production competitive in the global market especially in Europe and Japan. Dr.

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Farmers secure over 5mln. Birr from honey sale

BureZuria Woreda June 08/2013 More than 2000 farmers engaged in apiary in BureZuria Woreda, West Gojjam Zone of Amhara State have secured over five million Birr income from sale of over 101,500kg honey during the last ten months, the woreda agriculture office said. The office told ENA that the farmers utilized over 12,240 bee hives to produce the honey. The income exceeded by over 1.5 million Birr while the amount of honey supplied to market surpassed by 31,500kg compared to that of last year.

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Construction of health facilities underway

Nekempt June 06/2013 Construction of a hospital and a health station is underway in Gudru and Abe Dongoro Woredas, HoroGudru Wollega Zone of Oromia State with over 38.2 million Birr, the zonal health office said. Office Head, Tolesa Jebesa said the hospital, which will have X-Ray service, outpatient, surgical and delivery wards, among others, is being constructed on over four hectares land. Tolesa said over 99 per cent of construction of the health station being undertaken on 1.5 hectares land is already completed.

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Across the Somalia border: educating Farhan

It is a very short drive from the Save the Children Field Base to the UNHCR Registration Centre in Dollo Ado town, Ethiopia. As we get closer, the driver points to the horizon and tells me that the trees I can see are across the border in Somalia. It can’t be further than 500m away.

I can’t help but notice the extensive fencing and barbed wire that surrounds the Registration Centre. It’s an intimidating sight for a grown a man, never mind the many unaccompanied children, alone and far from home, who end up here.

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New technologies for monitoring water resources

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In Tigray, northern Ethiopia, the ICRC is preparing for droughts by using a geographic information system to monitor water points.

The track passes a wind generator before plunging into a brown landscape, dry and desert-like at this time of year. In September the same fields will be green, covered with onions, lettuce and teff, a typically Ethiopian type of cereal. The two colours symbolize the rigours and the beauty of a land that has seen many a cruel drought.

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Dubai Cares launches 3-year Home Grown School Feeding pilot program in Ethiopia

WAM BUTAJIRA, ETHIOPIA: Dubai Cares, a UAE-based philanthropic organization, has announced the launch of its 3-year integrated Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) pilot program, which is being implemented in 30 schools to address the health and nutrition needs of approximately 30,700 primary school age children in the Southern Nations and Nationalities Peoples' Region (SNNPR).

According to the World Food Program, 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone.

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Woreda to construct over 38 mln. Birr hospital

Debrebirhan May 30/2013 Foundation stone was laid for a hospital to be constructed in Meragna Town, capital of Mida Woremo Woreda, North Shoa Zone of Amhara State with over 38 million Birr. Regional justice bureau head Firde Cheru and zonal chief administrator Eshete Asfaw laid the foundation stone for the hospital. Firde on the occasion said the regional government is working to help the public benefit from social service in particular in the health sector. Eshete on his part said construction of the hospital will contribute in the ongoing efforts to achieve the MDGs in the health sector.

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Yellow fever in Ethiopia

The campaign starts on 10 June and is in response to laboratory confirmation of six cases on 7 May. It aims to cover more than 527,000 people in six districts.

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Can Ethiopia maintain its great progress toward food security?

By Grace Lerner

Nearly 30 years after the 1984 famine that left more than 400,000 people dead, Ethiopia has made significant progress toward food security. Some of these recent successes include a reduction in poverty, an increase in crop yields and availability, and an increase in per capita income—rising in some rural areas by more than 50 percent!

What happened to cause this breakthrough, and what steps does the country need to stay on track?

International Food Policy Research Institute:

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State immunizing children against measles

Mekele May 30/2013 A five-day immunization campaign against measles is launched in Tigray State on Thursday. Regional Health Bureau Head, Hagos Gudefay said the campaign targets to immunize more than 680,000 children. Hagos said stated number of children between nine months and five years will benefit from the campaign being carried out at 680 centers. Head of Mekelle Town Health Bureau, Fiseha Berhane on his part said that over 39,900 children will be immunized at 45 centers in set up in the town.