New computer system predicts malaria outbreaks in Ethiopia

By Leigh Cooper Scientists have created a computer system that will help predict malaria outbreaks in northwestern Ethiopia. The advance warning system, which uses local epidemiological information and real-time environmental data, will allow public health officials to transport resources to high-risk areas and contain outbreaks early, explained ecologist Chris Merkord from South Dakota State University.

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Investment: Made in Ethiopia

By Jacey Fortin in Addis Ababa   Low costs attract investors, but there are many obstacles to the country’s industrialisation. The Ethiopian government is pouring resources into industrialisation in an effort to break into global markets. In the near future, everybody will produce the right products to fit the international market But, in a country

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Kenya leader signs The Exavt Copy of tough EPRDF security law

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed into law a controversial security bill which saw MPs trade blows in parliament. It was passed on Thursday during a chaotic parliamentary session, with opposition MPs warning that Kenya was becoming a “police state”. The government has said it needs more powers to fight militant Islamists threatening Kenya’s security.

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IGAD-brokered S Sudan peace talks resume in Ethiopia

South Sudan peace talks have resumed in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa, with mediators urging both sides of the conflict to end the bloodshed. “Let us make this the last, appalling year of horror and tragedy, not an indicator of South Sudan’s future,” chief mediator Seyoum Mesfin said at the beginning of the

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Bill Gates Faces Trial In India For Illegally Testing Tribal Children With Vaccines

Natural Society By Christina Sarich Bill Gates Faces Trial in India for Illegally Testing Tribal Children with Vaccines. Have Bill Gates and his eugenicist foundation’s crimes against humanity finally caught up with him? If the Supreme Court of India has anything to say about it, he will face the ramifications of poisoning millions of Indian

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Israel’s Health Ministry to ease blood donation restrictions on gay men, Ethiopians

Committee expected to recommend a restriction of between one and five years on male gay sex. Health Ministry to ease blood donation restrictions on gay men, Ethiopians A Health Ministry committee is expected to recommend soon that gay men be allowed to donate blood – with limited restrictions. The ministry has been prohibited from accepting

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Exciting times: Africa is not just one country, it is slowly becoming one big tribe

By Charles Onyango-Obbo Mail and Guardian Africa Africa becoming one big – and unwieldy – country. It is not the one Kwame Nkrumah dreamt of, but that which the people have made for themselves. I THINK Binyavanga Wainaina settled one of the vexing questions about Africa: how to write about the continent (or not to

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Gang rape spurs calls for reform in Ethiopia

By Jacey Fortin, Aljazeera Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Inside a gated home on the western outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital, a picture of Hanna Lalango is framed in a wreath of flowers just beginning to wilt around the edges. The 16-year-old girl died on November 1, about a month after she entered a public mini-bus and

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Ethiopian health workers arrive in Liberia to help fight Ebola

(Reuters) – Scores of Ethiopian health workers arrived in Liberia on Tuesday to bolster the response to an Ebola outbreak that the government says it wants to stamp out before Christmas. The 87 doctors and nurses will join an African Union (AU) mission against the worst Ebola outbreak on record, which has killed more than

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Ethiopia’s ‘Islam Lesson’ for the West

By Raymond Ibrahim,The Christian Post Raymond Ibrahim is author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians. Yet another Christian church was destroyed by Muslims in Ethiopia—this time by local authorities. Heaven’s Light Church, which served some 100 evangelical Christians, was demolished last November 28. The church had stood and functioned in the Muslim-majority

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