Ethiopia’s Childhood mortality has reduced significantly over the past years, 2011 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey indicated. The 2011 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey made official on Thursday was undertaken from December 2010 to June 2011 by the Central Statistics Agency with support from the Ministry of Health and its partners. The Survey indicated child mortality which was 123 out of 1000 in 2005 has reduced to 88 in 2011. State Minister of Health Dr. Keseteberhan Admasu on the occasion said in 1990 an estimated number of children dying under the age of 5 were 20 percent. According to the 2011 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey, that figure has now been slashed by more than half to 8.8 percent, he said.

Head of the Government Communications Affairs Office (GCAO) and connoisseur politician, Bereket Simon wrote a book entitled Ye Hulet Mirchawoch Weg (A Tale of Two Elections) which will officially be launched at the Sheraton Addis on Tuesday, December 13.

Having over six years of experience in participating in opposition parties, Gizachew Shiferaw (Eng.), who served in high levels of party leadership, has made an announcement that he has resigned from his position in the party — Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) — at the 2nd general assembly on December 11, 2011 at the Hotel d’Afrique off Dej. Wolde Mikael Street near Mexico Square. Gizachew presented his resignation request to the members of the general assembly and stated that he aid not want to continue in UDJ’s leadership due to not having the capacity or inclination to continue in political life and finding that his 'force for politics had been extinguished from within him'.

It is a website that offers online flat rate video streaming Services. Global and domestic media markets are currently suffering from lack of online access to Ethiopian films and music. Production companies and artists, as well as users in Diaspora, are missing out on the potential benefits of this opportunity. Therefore, DireTube has once again decided to step into the market gap and create an online platform for Ethiopian film producers to showcase their work in the form of an online portal for viewers to see their films. The result is www.gojocinema.com, a new virtual movie rental site where visitors can stream films on-demand through the internet.

Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Derba MIDROC Cement Plc, Ethiopia’s biggest cement factory, said it will start production within the “next 10 days,” helping end a shortage of the building material in Africa’s fourth-largest economy. The $351 million plant, about 70 kilometers (44 miles) northwest of the capital, Addis Ababa, will produce 8,000 metric tons of the building material daily by February, said Chief Executive Officer Haile Assegide. Derba is part of the MIDROC Ethiopia group owned by Mohammed al-Amoudi, an Ethiopian-born Saudi Arabian billionaire who is one of the biggest investors in the Horn of Africa nation.

HER face lit up by a huge smile, Birhan Woldu proudly shows off her tiny daughter. It marks the start of a new chapter in what is a remarkable story of the tenacity of the human spirit and survival against the odds. For aged three, Birhan's ghostly image was seen staring from the TV screen at the 1985 Live Aid concert as her life ebbed away. The starving toddler became one of the heartbreaking symbols of the Ethiopian famine. But miraculously, she pulled through — and this week, at the age of 30, gave birth to her first child.

ASHEGODA, Ethiopia — Villagers in Ethiopia's arid north live as they have for centuries surrounded by cattle and donkeys; only the rows of towering white wind turbines look out of place. It is not the first place one might expect to find the sleek new structures. The unpaved roads around the site are lined with donkey-drawn carts lugging firewood and bushels of wheat. "It's a little bit anachronistic to see the turbines in a rural zone where peasants are working like they were centuries ago," says Gerard Damongeot of the French-run Ashegoda wind farm.

United Nations Security Council placed additional sanctions on Eritrea on Monday for continuing to provide support to armed groups seeking to destabilize Somalia and other parts of the Horn of Africa. The Council imposed the extra sanctions building on the arms and travel embargoes it imposed exactly two years ago. The new measures are contained in a resolution which received the support of 13 of the Council’s 15 members. China and Russia abstained.

A young Ethiopian born in the rural countryside of this topographically-diverse nation watches one of the country’s legion of long distance running heroes to take up the sport in athletics. Driven by the motivation to make it to the very top and change his and her family’s fortunes through race winnings, this runner trains long and hard. Eventually, this runner makes it to the very top winning races around the world, titles in major championships, and hard-earned cash that transforms the life of his or her family.

The controversial homosexual conference that sparked quite a controversy over the past week in Ethiopia has reportedly shifted its venue from its originally scheduled Jupiter Hotel in Addis to the UN Conference Center yesterday. Following the cancellation of a religious leaders’ press briefing condemning the conference last Tuesday, controversy has been raging in the capital Addis for days. The African Men for Sexual Health and Rights (AMSHeR), the organizer of the conference, noted on its website yesterday day that the new venue has been shifted to the UN Conference Center from its previous location Jupiter Hotel.

Chris Huhne, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, is due to announce details of a foreign aid package ahead of government talks at a United Nation's summit on climate change in Durban, South Africa, which start this week.
Among the projects to be funded will be schemes to help African farmers insure their crops against flooding and drought while other projects include installing solar power in rural villages and building slurry pits that can produce gas to power generators.

Ethiopia and other sub-Saharan African countries are amongst the worst hit in a brain-drain, seeing mass migration of skilled professional and subjecting countries to a massive economic loss, a new study released on Friday reveals. According to research by Canadian scientists, nine African countries known to produce a large number of qualified professionals in the medical field are losing the equivalent of US$2 billion per year due to their healthcare professionals seeking employment in wealthier countries.

The Ethiopian government accepted a request tabled by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Assembly of Heads of State and Government during its 19th extraordinary summit held at the Sheraton Addis yesterday to take part in military operations against Al-Shabaab and other affiliated terrorist forces. Under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, IGAD issued a statement after deliberations on the current political and security situation in Somalia.

One of the precious few perks to living in the District of Columbia (sorry guys) is the wealth of amazing Ethiopian food. We've yet to find an area of New York as concentrated with Ethiopian joints as the U Street corridor and Adams Morgan are, so we were thrilled to bump into Hiyaw Gebryohannes, chef and founder of Taste of Ethiopia, at Foragers market this afternoon.

If I listed the things that I admire about the people in Ethiopia, religion would most certainly be at the top. People openly observe their religion and follow their beliefs there. In America, a person's spiritual beliefs are often listed as an “optional” questionnaire response. I don't necessarily think it's bad to keep our religion a secret.