Ethiopia

India outsources agriculture

Solar, wind can break Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam deadlock

Fresh drive to close gaps on health issues facing women and girls

Local capacities critical to making a difference must be strengthened

El Nino and rising temperatures can lead to uptick of malaria in Ethiopia, warns research

Study finds link between malaria outbreaks and El Nino events in the country

Cost of climate action: Africa needs $2.8 trillion from 2020-2030 to meet goals, says report 

About 90% climate finance is likely to be external

Water, Africa’s Gold: One crisis too many

Africa is caught in a vortex of poverty, water and disease

Temperatures in northern Africa likely to rise between February and April despite La Nina

Eastern and southern regions of the continent may be wetter than usual  

Soil mapping in sub-Saharan Africa for better use of fertilisers, improving food security

UN's FAO to digitally map soil nutrients in central American countries too

Land degradation a major threat but avoidable. So why the inaction

'None of the countries have set numerical targets for land degradation neutrality'

COVID-19 pandemic can slow progress in policy making for healthy ageing in Africa: WHO

Low literacy rates among elderly made access to online health services difficult

Dust off the rust

Adequate research-funding can check stem rust resurgence

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Superplume splitting Africa

Rift could be replaced by ocean in 50 million years

Proposed Tata plant in Tanzania threat to flamingo habitat

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Yellow fever outbreak feared in Ivory Coast

SNIPPETS

Goat plague hits Kenya

Progress in measles elimination has got stalled, says WHO

Developing countries mostly hit. More than 145,000 people died of the disease in 2013

Disease threatens wheat crops across the world

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McDonalds' UK promotes sustainable coffee