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Ethiopia May Have Just Shattered World Record By Planting 350 Million Tree Saplings in One Day
As a means of combatting national deforestation, Ethiopian officials say that they may have just broken the world record for most trees planted in one day.
Once a Desert, Ethiopia Turns Wasteland Into Fertile Farms
The Ethiopian desert, full of drought and famine just a generation ago, is turning green with crops. Thousands of villagers are taking up ancient tools...
Amazing Towers In Ethiopia Harvest Clean Water From Thin Air
After visiting Ethiopia and seeing for himself how women and children are forced to walk miles every day for water, an Italian designer and...
12 Million More Kids in School is Ethiopian Success
The number of children attending primary school in Ethiopia has skyrocketed since 1994 when just 3 million pupils were being educated. By 2008, primary...
Ethiopia and Angola Double Number of Girls in School in 10 years
The number of girls enrolling in primary school has soared across Africa in the last decade, according to a report released on Monday.
With primary...
Ethiopian Kids Can Master Computer in 5 Months With No Experience
What happens if you give a thousand small PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they'll...
Solar Kiosk Debuts in Ethiopia, Brings First Electricity to Remote Villages
A German company has installed its first clean energy kiosk in rural Ethiopia powered by rooftop solar panels. The self-contained "SolarKiosk" functions as a...
Ethiopian Child Mortality, Malnutrition Rates Slashed in Half
Ethiopia has more than halved its child mortality rates since 1990 through campaigns to increase the number of health workers and clinics throughout the...
Ethiopia Has Halved Malaria Deaths in Just Three Years
The number of people who die from malaria in Ethiopia has been halved in just three years through the distribution of nearly 20 million...
Mum Shares £7 Million Lotto Win With Ethiopian Orphans
A big lottery winner and mum-of-five wanted to ease the plight of countless starving children in Ethiopia whom she'd...
Ethiopia Signs Deal to Build Largest Wind Farm in Africa
Last month Ethiopia signed a deal to construct Africa's biggest wind farm. The 300 million dollar contract with the French company, Vergnet, to complete...
Signs of Hope for Ethiopia’s Children
Amid the hardship facing Ethiopia's children, there are signs that conditions may be improving and that children's lives are changing for the better. According...
Jolie and Pitt Give Two Million Dollars to Fight Disease in Ethiopia
Superstar couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated two million dollars to help children affected by AIDS and tuberculosis in Ethiopia, announced the...
Doctors Join Together To Change Ethiopian’s Life
A new US citizen from Ethiopia, Marie Gebrewold, received life-changing surgery on her jaw at no cost thanks to Operation Smile and its volunteer...
Britain offers Ethiopia $260 mln to fight poverty
Britain said on Thursday it will give Ethiopia 133 million pounds (2.5 billion birr) this year to help the Horn of Africa country try...
Ethiopian Farmers Boosted By Improved Seed
Five years ago, Wegene Abebe was just another local peasant eking out a living in Tijo, 220km southeast of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa;...
In Ethiopia, Elders Dissolve a Crisis the Traditional Way
An Ethiopian scholar retired from Harvard has led a 'council of elders' in brokering the solution for an intractable two-year political crisis by using...
Volvo Pledges Lifetime of Cars to U.S. Doctor Serving Orphans, Mothers in Ethiopia
The fourth annual Volvo for Life awards were announced and the 2006 grand prize winner is Dr. Ingida Asfaw of Pontiac, Michigan. Asfaw is...
Good News in History, April 23
110 years ago today, the first-ever baseball game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Then known as Weeghman Park, its original occupants were...
Good News in History, April 21
April 21st marks Groundation Day, when hundreds of thousands of Rastafari celebrate the arrival of Emperor Haile Selassie in Jamaica in 1966. The great...