Ethiopia on Friday confirmed its first Marburg outbreak after nine cases were identified in a southern region of the country that borders South Sudan. The World Health Organization Director-General ...

African health authorities on Thursday confirmed a possible outbreak of an unidentified viral hemorrhagic fever in southern Ethiopia that is under investigation after eight suspected cases were ...

Once hailed as a solution to Ethiopia's creeping desertification, a foreign tree is now spreading uncontrollably across the East African nation, threatening fragile ecosystems and the very survival of ...

Health Minister Mekdes Daba said Ethiopia, which declared a Marburg outbreak on Friday, had conducted tests in 17 suspected cases in the country's south. Ethiopia on Monday confirmed three deaths from ...

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ADDIS ABABA, Nov 20 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is scheduled to meet African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, who is from Djibouti, today. The 55-member ...

People pose for a picture with a banner of the COP30 inside the Estacao das Docas, a tourist port area in Belem, Para State, Brazil on November 9, 2025. The news broke on the second day of Cop30, the ...

FeatureSince the outbreak of conflict in April 2023 between the Fano, an Amhara nationalist militia, and the Ethiopian army, kidnappings and abuses have become rampant, especially around Bahir Dar, ...

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If you see a forest in Ethiopia, you know there is very likely to be a church in the middle, says Alemayehu Wassie. Wassie, a forest ecologist, has spent the past decade on a mission: preserving, ...