Encouraging results in fight against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

01/07/2008 :: Four years ago, the Italian government signed an agreement with the Ethiopia for return of the Aksum obelisk. The obelisk has been in Rome since 1937. The funeral stele, weighing 160 tonnes and standing 24 meters high, is around 1,700 years old and has become a symbol of Ethiopian people’s identity. + More

01/07/2008 :: Program Officer Natural Resource Management and Food Security + More

23/06/2008 :: Providing protection for refugees today is vastly more challenging than when UNHCR began work in 1951, UN Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Gueterres said marking World Refugee Day Friday 20 June i Dadaab camp for Somali refugees in Kenya. Refugees flee conflict in their home countries. "Conflict today may be motivated by politics, but looking deeper it can also be about poverty, bad governance or climate change leading to competition for scarce resources" said Gueteres. Of the total number of 11.4 million refugees worldwide Somalis fleeing the conflict in their own country are the fifth largest group. + More

23/06/2008 :: The Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, Ms. Hilde Frafjord Johnson, visited Ethiopia 19-22 June to review the emergency situation in drought-affected areas . Ms. Johnson travelled to hotspot woredas in the southern part of the country ... + More