Health
Raaso Hospital under construction. The hospital is scheduled to be opened early next year.Once completed, it will be the second largest hospital in the Somali region of Ethiopia with two hundred beds,laboratory, and its own ambulances.
In order to treat as many children as possible, a network of 47 outreach therapeutic programs provide therapeutic food and medical care on an outpatient basis.
By the end of May 2008, millions faced hunger in the Somali region of Ethiopia as crops failed and food prices soared.Two successive seasons of poor rains left the region in drought, and the effect on vegetation is shown in this Satelite image on may 20.
EL RAM, Kenya, May 9 - It is tempting to romanticise the lifestyle of nomads in Kenya's northeast -- a land peppered with vast termite mounds which burst from rust-coloured soil like fingers pointing to the cloudless sky.
GENEVA/WASHINGTON, April 18 - Soaring food prices have surfaced as a big concern in the delicately poised agriculture negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). But because any WTO deal will have an impact only in the long term, the Geneva talks will not offer a solution to the immediate crisis, diplomats and officials say.
We've already had several sneak previews of how climate change is going to be bad for our health.
From mosquito-borne diseases that jump from cows to people in East Africa, to a heatwave that killed thousands of elderly Europeans, to malaria starting to appear in the highlands of Rwanda and Swaziland in abnormally hot summers. And outbreaks of cholera as more floods hit coastal communities with poor sanitation, mixing sewage with drinking water supplies amid fetid heat.
BETHLEHEM-WOODBURY - Students at Nonnewaug High School offered their third annual Battle of the Bands concert Friday, March 14, to benefit the Denan Project, a local group that built and maintains a free hospital in poverty-stricken eastern Ethiopia.
DILLO, Ethiopia -- "Just breathe," I comforted myself as I shuffled slowly through the dusty gravel. "One breath with each step," I repeated raggedly as 50 pounds of brackish water sloshed rhythmically against the sides of the muddy yellow jerrycan strapped to my back.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- It was early morning and a dozen Westerners, mostly Seattleites, were getting ready to leave the capital for a three-day visit to water-development projects in Oromia, one of this country's largest rural states.
The Somali region is experiencing a severe drought that unless government and NGOs act quickly, can cause a massive loss of life both human and animal.
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