Tag: Ethiopia
Adventurer returns after cross-Africa cycling trip
Marathon cyclist Kate Leeming has pedalled across Africa in search of the causes and consequences of extreme poverty.[MORE]
Families in the dark as adoption chief quits
The man who ran Australia's adoption program with Ethiopia for 20 years has stood down amidst ongoing serious allegations of corruption.[MORE]
African aid reunion helps wounds heal
A return trip to Africa for two aid workers has opened a path to healing after a life put on hold by the horrors of war.[MORE]
New ocean 'will split Africa'
British scientists say a new ocean is developing in Africa that will eventually split the continent in two. [MORE]
Ethiopians vote in test of democracy
Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi is expected to be returned to power in the first ballot since a disputed poll in 2005 turned violent.[MORE]
Ethiopia's Kebede claims London Marathon
Olympic bronze medallist Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia has denied Kenya a seventh successive London Marathon title with an untroubled victory in an unofficial two hours, five minutes and 18 seconds.[MORE]
To hell and back again: meet Shane Dolan
Returning to Ethiopia has worked literally like a cure for aid worker Shane Dolan's depression. [MORE]
Who's playing God?
We're at the checkout at our local IGA, working fast because the kids have spotted the chocolates placed strategically at kid-friendly height. The woman next in line asks pleasantly, and within ear-shot of one and all, whether their 'real' parents are dead. I smile and say politely 'yes'.[MORE]
Aid dogfight: Geldof and BBC in war of words
The debate over aid diversion in Ethiopia seems to me confused, exaggerated and divorced from reality.[MORE]
Australians caught in Ethiopian adoption nightmare
Australian families have made serious allegations of corruption within Australia's inter-country adoption program with Ethiopia.[MORE]
Geldof challenges BBC over Ethiopia aid claim
Bob Geldof has again denied claims that money for starving Ethiopians was used by rebel groups to buy weapons.[MORE]
Ethiopia adoption ban lifted
The Federal Government has announced Australians will again be allowed to adopt children from Ethiopia.[MORE]
Geldof rejects claims Live Aid was duped
Irish rock star Bob Geldof has rejected claims from an ex Ethiopian rebel commander, who says most of the money raised at Live Aid was used to buy weapons for rebel militants. [MORE]
Live Aid funded Ethiopian rebels
An investigation has found almost all the money raised by the Live Aid and Band Aid concerts in the 1980s went to Ethiopian rebels.[MORE]
Adoption watchdog suppresses Ethiopia findings
International adoption overseer refuses to release results of inquiry into disturbing activities of American adoption agencies in Ethiopia.[MORE]
Ethiopian Airlines says all crash bodies recovered
Ethiopian Airlines says all 90 bodies have been recovered from the aircraft that crashed off Lebanon last month, and insisted it was too early to say what caused the disaster.[MORE]
Ethiopian jet's black box found
Search teams retrieved a flight recorder belonging to an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed off the coast of Lebanon last month.[MORE]
Lebanon plane crash fuselage found
Searchers have located a large part of the fuselage of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed in the sea off Lebanon last month killing 90 people, Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi said.[MORE]
UN combats rape as a weapon of war
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has announced measures to fight the use of rape as a weapon of war in Africa. [MORE]
Black boxes from Lebanon plane crash found
A search team has found the black boxes from an Ethiopian aircraft that crashed off the Lebanese coast with 90 people on board, all presumed dead.[MORE]
Storm blamed for Beirut plane crash
Authorities have ruled out sabotage as the cause of a fatal Ethiopian Airlines plane crash off the coast of Lebanon, instead blaming bad weather.[MORE]
Ethiopian airliner crashes in 'ball of fire'
Authorities in Lebanon say there is no sign of survivors from an Ethiopian Airlines plane that plunged into the sea.[MORE]
Bodies recovered from Ethiopian airliner
An Ethiopian Airlines plane with 90 passengers and crew on board has crashed into the sea after taking off from Beirut.[MORE]
Ethiopian airliner crashes after takeoff
An Ethiopian Airlines plane with 90 passengers and crew on board has crashed into the sea after taking off from Beirut.[MORE]
Australia suspends adoptions from Ethiopia
The Australian Government has suspended all child adoptions from Ethiopia over fears that it could be breaking human rights laws against child trafficking.[MORE]
