Ethiopia | Simon Roughneen

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Narcotics and drought mean babies go without food – The Washington Times

13 July 2008

DIRE DAWA, Ethiopia -- When drought and food shortages hit, it is the very young who suffer first, and most. Weighing only 10 pounds, Ayaan is among nearly 100,000 Ethiopian…

Aid, Relief, Disasters Environment, Energy & Resources, Food Ethiopia Irish Examiner Reporting from Africa Reporting from Ethiopia

Despite food shortages, Ethiopia to grow biofuel crops – Irish Examiner

7 July 2008

DIRE DAWA, EASTERN ETHIOPIA -- When drought and food shortages hit, it is the very young who suffer first, and most. Weighing only 4.5 kg, Ayaan is among the almost…

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Young Ethiopians malnourished – RTÉ World Report

5 July 2008

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Aid, Relief, Disasters Ethiopia Irish Examiner Reporting from Ethiopia

Ethiopia: already too late? – Irish Examiner

30 June 2008

– Awassa, southern Ethiopia “She is seven years old”, said Matiwos Kambata to this reporter. Incredulity would be the most apt response, were it not for the fact that his…

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Ethiopian drought effects made worse by global food and fuel prices – VoA

26 June 2008

http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2008-06-26-voa33.cfm MP3 below: De Capua debriefer with Simon Roughneen – Download (MP3) – Simon Roughneen with Joe deCapua It’s estimated four and a half million people in Ethiopia need immediate…

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Somalia in Catch-22 after Islamists are routed – ISN

8 January 2007

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?ots591=4888CAA0-B3DB-1461-98B9-E20E7B9C13D4&lng=en&id=51781 With an apparently facile victory achieved over the Council of Somalia Islamic Courts, the Ethiopian-backed Transitional Federal Government faces a more difficult challenge in establishing a functioning government in…

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5 years on the streets, but now I want a Physics doctorate – Irish Independent

28 November 2006

– personifies Plato’s maxim that ‘courage is a kind of salvation’. ADDIS ABABA – Now 18, Asnakech* has a big smile for her GOAL friends as she gossips while making…

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Hard to believe your eyes: drought in Kenya and Ethiopia – OpenDemocracy

15 May 2006

KANIGIPUR, NORTHERN KENYA -- Driving through northern Kenya's drought-affected famine district as the midday sun lifts temperatures to over 40 degrees centigrade, pools of water shimmer in the distance, laying…

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Cattle dying, people next? – HeraldAM

2 May 2006

MOYALE -- Leaning on his walking stick, Shamsidin Mohamed flicks his fingers up and down in turn, alternating between whispering and counting out loud in his native Somali. By the…

Aid, Relief, Disasters Ethiopia Politics & Government Reporting from Africa Reporting from Ethiopia Village Magazine

‘No water, no rain – we can’t feed the animals’ – Village

26 April 2006

Simon Roughneen in Moyale, Kenya-Ethiopia border. At least five million people are chronically food-dependent in Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous nation. In the Somali and Oromo regions, failed rains mean…

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