s a crazy, joyous race at 2,300m above sea level in Addis Ababa, and it's the adrenaline as well as the altitude that leaves competitors breathless after the Great Ethiopian Run I am standing at the start line of the Great Ethiopian Run: not only the biggest race in Africa but one of the continent's biggest talent-spotting contests. Officially there are 38,000 of us, all in yellow-and-green race T-shirts,...
Momina, a young Ethiopian woman, describes the stigma she has faced since being diagnosed with HIV when she was 20. In 2010 she made the heartbreaking decision to give up for adoption her second child, born after she learned her HIV status ...
s meeting in London, where donors pledged $2.6bn (£1.6bn) in new funding and committed to providing 120 million more women with access to modern contraceptives by 2020. The Malawian president, Joyce Banda, Thai prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, and Melinda Gates are among the thousands of political leaders, philanthropists, medical experts and women...
s rulers to deliver on their long broken promise of peaceful, democratic reform. "Democracy is so important to Ethiopia, because we need it to moderate the differences between civilization and civilization," Eskinder said in a 2010 interview. "I hope the EPRDF (the ruling party) will be pragmatic enough to realise reform would be the better option, even for itself," he added. "I believe in forgiving…...
s focus on potatoes to improve food security , while Mark Tran reported from Guatemala on the quest to find alternatives to coffee and cardamom . Meanwhile, we reported on the first global index that attempts to me asure modern-day slavery country by country, and highlighted your stories of the activists and campaigners who have made a positive impact on tackling human trafficking. Elsewhere on the...