The Ethiopian government has commenced strategic consultations for its Rural Transformation Roadmap through a landmark national seminar in Addis Ababa.

BACKGROUND Rural out-migration is a common phenomenon in Ethiopia. Several studies explain migration as the outcome of an individual utility-maximizing decision. This perspective ignores the diversity ...

Since the late 1990s, Ethiopia has been implementing a national rural land registration program, the largest such legal reform in the world in recent times. Financed largely by the World Bank, USAID, ...

Ban Ki Moon is on a health and development focused tour of sub-Saharan Africa this week in support of the UN’s Every Woman, Every Child initiative. This was a program launched at the UN summit in ...

Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world. Half of Ethiopia’s 85 million people live below the poverty line, and 10 to 20 percent rely on food aid every year. A large percentage of the ...

ADDIS ABABA, May 11 (Xinhua) -- China Foundation for Rural Development (CFRD) has won acclaim for intensifying humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia as it marked its five years of operation in the east ...

Ethiopia deployed 152 rural base stations in partnership with Ethio Telecom and ZTE, providing 2G, 3G, and 4G coverage to over 1 million users. ZTE’s Rural Ecosystem—featuring EcoSite, EcoEnergy, and ...

Ruth Jackson received funding from the Australian government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australian Development Awards Scheme under an award titled, Improving the use of ...