Health/Education

Nurse Katie Farka will go to Ethiopia as part of a volunteer medical and educational team to Yetebon, Ethiopia, with the Gundersen Medical Foundation's Global Partners By Mike Tighe (La Crosse Tribune)...

The fourth-graders at John Thomas School of Discovery (JTSD) have the objective of developing a unique plan to bring the internet to Ethiopia. By Alec McChesney (Christian County Headliner News)...

The Weeknd's gift of CAD50,000 to the University of Toronto has allowed the ancient Ethiopian language of Ge’ez to come to life again. By Carmel Kilkenny (Radio Canada International) | The Weeknd will...

The young members of the Uncut Girls' Club are brave, dedicated and inspiring for taking a stand against a practice that many community members believe to be an important tradition. Female genital...

Aberdeen elementary Grade 6 students (BC, Canada) were working on a fundraiser so as to raise money for Bete Desta Children’s Home, an orphanage in Ethiopia. By Jessica Wallace (Kamloops This Week)...

The University of Gondar and Queen’s University join The MasterCard Foundation to provide about 450 scholarships to promising young African leaders and develop Ethiopia’s first occupational therapy...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Ethiopia), David Nabarro (United Kingdom) and Sania Nishtar (Pakistan) have been nominated as the three final candidates for WHO's next Director-General. By Martin...

President Mulatu said the efforts of BMVSS, manufacturer of Jaipur Foot, to restore mobility to handicapped persons by fitting artificial limbs manufactured by its technicians were laudable. By Mohammed...

Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative, and USAID’s Multi-sector Nutrition and Water Strategies Linked in Five-Year Activity: Growth Through Nutrition ADDIS...

At the University of Minnesota, Lydia Negussie cultivated a passion for making the legal profession more diverse and attuned to the needs of diverse communities. By Mila Koumpilova (Star Tribune) | Lydia...

In a country with high mortality rates, a TV show giraffe, created by Bruktawit Tigabu,  is educating youngsters by showing them healthy habits. By Gary Strauss (National Geographic) | Former...

FC Dallas soccer player Atiba Harris gave Markos and Tamrat Bogale shiny Christmas gift bags with personalized FC Dallas jerseys and pairs of sandals from St. Kitts, his home country. By Elvia Limón...

Ethiopian higher education institutions have been a hotbed of protest and resistance to political power since the 1960s. By Ayenachew Woldegiyorgis  (Inside Higher Ed) | For a year now, Ethiopia has...

Ethiopian maternal health researcher Hagos Godefay at Umeå University, Sweden has created a locally feasible method to estimate maternal mortality rates with a bottom-up measurement approach. UMEÅ,...

The love for helping others led her on a journey to Africa, as part of a collaboration between U-M and St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. By Meg Bauer (The...

Markos’ spine curves about 60 percent while brother Tamrat lives with a 120 percent curve that leaves him unable to stand up straight. By Brian Scott (NBCDFW) | Sixteen-year-olds Markos and Tamrat Bogale...

Nigist Asfaw, RSC's international representative for Ethiopia, spent her Time4Chem sharing her experiences as a woman in chemistry with grade 12 school girls at Addis Ketema High School in Addis Ababa,...

A retired dentist from Kenilworth (Warwickshire, England) is hoping to secure financial backing to support a project in Ethiopia, which she has been involved with for the last few years. Jane Innes-Rees...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Xinhua)―Ethiopia is on the right track to realize its vision 2020 of producing competent citizens, said Eshetu Asfaw Cheru, Director of Planning and Resource at the Ethiopian Ministry...

Tesfaye Temtime Tessema is the recipient of Michael Dreyfus Scholarship Fund and will study volcanology at Bristol University for three years. (BBC News)―A Bristol University graduate who died in Africa...