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In drought-stricken regions, children search for water and a lifeline for...
In drought-stricken regions of SNNPR, children travel for hours to collect water for household needs ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Ayene HALABA SPECIAL WOREDA & MAREKO WOREDA, SNNPR, 22 March 2016 – In the...
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Leadership matters: The case of CLTSH
By Araya Mengistu Ethiopia is a country showing strong progress in achieving global and national goals for WASH services. It has achieved the MDG target 7c for water supply. Although still behind for...
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Ireland and UNICEF respond to Ethiopia’s drought emergency
L-R) UNICEF Representative to Ethiopia, Ms. Gillian Mellsop and the Ambassador of Ireland to Ethiopia, H.E. Mr. Aidan O’Hara, holding jerry cans that are part of a donation consisting of water bladders...
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Reuniting Ethiopia’s children with their families after migration horrors
By Paul Schemm Ahmad, 17, demonstrates how traffickers in Yemen held him for ransom. A joint project between UNICEF, the International Organization of Migration and the Ethiopian Government, the...
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UNICEF’s largest global purchase of Therapeutic Food for children in...
A mother feeds a her malnourished child a Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), a high protein and high energy peanut-based paste, in Arsi zone, Oromia, Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, after two years of...
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Germany announces 10 million euro support for the drought response in Ethiopia
Mr Thomas Silberhorn, Deputy Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) announces a 10-million-euro contribution to save the lives and protect livelihoods of vulnerable households...
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EU’s Satellite images provide life saving water to drought affected...
By Samuel Godfrey An ongoing UNICEF supported borehole drill in Musle Kebele of Kore Woreda. The borehole drilling site was identified through combined remote sensing technology with conventional...
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Laws to protect breastfeeding inadequate in most countries
Mundene, 21, breastfeeds her two-month-old baby Melesech at the Gedebe Health Post in Halaba Special Woreda (district) in SNNP Region. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Ayene GENEVA/NEW YORK/ADDIS ABABA, 9 May...
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Water trucking brings relief to remote communities and helps revive local...
By Paul Schemm Ababa Abraha had to leave school to work when her family ran out of food amid a severe drought. © UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Hema Balasundaram When the drought came to the remote kebele...
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Baby WASH – the missing piece of the puzzle?
By Samuel Godfrey Mustapha and his one year old daughter Meia at Teza Wota Health Center ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2012/Getachew The January 2016 Huffington Post article entitled Why are Indian kids smaller...
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Saving a child too thin to be vaccinated
By Bethlehem Kiros AMHARA REGION, Ethiopia, February 2016 – Moyanesh Almerew, a Health Extension Worker in Arara Kidanemeheret Kebele (sub-district) in Amhara Region can testify to how bad the current...
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Children do not start wars… We know that
By Sacha Westerbeek The theme for this year’s Day of the African Child – Conflict & Crisis: Protecting Children’s Rights – is a pertinent one. South Sudan refugee children play at a child –...
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Sweden responds to El Niño-driven drought in Ethiopia
The Government avails US$ 5.7 million to UNICEF’s drought response activities New cartons of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) arrives at a UNICEF warehouse ADDIS ABABA, 22 June 2016...
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South-South Cooperation as a new approach for WASH sector development in...
By Samuel Godfrey and Michele Paba (LR) Ms.Gillian Mellsop, UNICEF Representative to Ethiopia, Ato Kebede Gerba State Minister MOWIE, Octavio Henrique Cortes Brazilian Ambassador to Ethiopia. Signed a...
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Return, recovery and reunification of the abducted children in Gambella
By Wossen Mulatu 25-year-old Nyatayin with her one year old daughter Nyakoch Gatdet at a temporary shelter for returned children in Gambella. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Mersha GAMBELLA, Ethiopia, 25 May...
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Abducted as a child, returned an adult after 18 years
By Wossen Mulatu GAMBELLA, Ethiopia, 25 May 2016 – Eighteen years after he was kidnapped as a child by raiders, Paul Tok*, 19, came home to his native village of Dima to a warm welcome. In the long...
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El Niño is over but its impact on children is set to worsen as disease,...
In Eastern and Southern Africa alone, 26.5 million children are in need of aid NAIROBI/NEW YORK, July 8, 2016 – The 2015-2016 El Niño has ended but its devastating impact on children is worsening, as...
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UNICEF and religious institutions sign a Memorandum of Understanding to...
Dr Abba Hailemarim Melese, Deputy General Manager of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Signs Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between UNICEF and major religious institutions for the wellbeing of...
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Vital events registration kicks off in Ethiopia
(L-R) Ms. Gillian Mellsop, UNICEF Representative to Ethiopia , H.E Ms Elsa Tesfaye, Director General of Vital Events Registration Agency (VERA), H.E Dr Mulatu Teshome, President of the Federal...
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UNICEF and religious leaders commit to improve the lives of children and...
By Hanna Woldemeskel Haji Alfadil Ali Mustafa, General Secretary of the Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Counsel Signs Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between UNICEF and major religious institutions...
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