Ethiopia | The New Humanitarian

- Analysis
- Food
- 27 November 2015
Ready or not - drought tests Ethiopia

Herding weary sheep up a dusty path, Hussein Boru knows he won’t find green pastures. He’s just looking for the minimum to keep his flock...
- Analysis
- Food
- 19 November 2015
How bad is the drought in Ethiopia?

Alarm bells are ringing for a food emergency in Ethiopia. The UN says 15 million people will need help over the coming months. The government,...
- Analysis
- Health
- 17 November 2015
A new approach to vaccine development

Four years after it was first used in a mass vaccination campaign, the MenAfriVac vaccine has achieved an extraordinary outcome; cases of meningitis A have...
- Analysis
- Migration
- 11 August 2015
Migrants still heading to Yemen

Qader and Abdi are two weeks into their journey. Carrying only one empty plastic water bottle each, flattened, with no liquid to return it to...
- Analysis
- Food
- 30 July 2015
US food aid: Charity begins at home

More than 60 years after the US Food for Peace program was launched, vested interests continue to hinder reforms to allow for more local sourcing...
- Feature
- Migration
- 30 July 2015
Mapped - the world's conflicts

The news is dominated by wars and unrest in places like Syria, Iraq and Ukraine, but there are dozens of other conflicts around the globe...
- Analysis
- Environment and Disasters
- 16 July 2015
Do #summits solve problems?

The shoe-shine boys and phone card hawkers that usually throng the entrance to the UN complex in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, were cleared away, replaced by...
- Feature
- Human Rights
- 4 May 2015
Why are Ethiopian Israelis protesting?

For the last few days, Ethiopian-Jews in Israel and their supporters have been protesting against police brutality and racism. The protests were sparked by a...
- Analysis
- Health
- 27 March 2015
Killing us softly

A recent public outcry in China, sparked by a damning documentary about air pollution, was based on well-founded fear: Of the 100 million people who...
- Analysis
- Health
- 24 February 2015
3 tips for WHO's new director for Africa

The World Health Organization says the number of new Ebola cases per week rose twice this month for the first time since December. This rise...
- Analysis
- Aid and Policy
- 13 February 2015
Does celebrity advocacy actually work?

This week was a fanfare for celebrity humanitarians: Forest Whitaker appealed for peace in South Sudan alongside UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos; Angelina...
- News
- Conflict
- 30 January 2015
A timeline of MSF's withdrawals

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been among the highest risk-taking NGOs since it was founded in 1971, with its staff routinely putting their lives on...

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