Wayna and her mother immigrated from their native Ethiopia to America when she was just a toddler.

Coffee is a universal experience enjoyed by billions of people on a daily basis and is part of an industry worth over $80 billion a year. But the people behind the product are in crisis with millions of growers fast becoming bankrupt. Nowhere more evident is this paradox than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee.

Calling for a new business approach to African agriculture, United Nations Economic Commission of Africa (ECA) Director of Food Security and Sustainable Development, Dr Josue Dione, said in Addis Ababa that climate change would aggravate the continent’s food insecurity and poverty. This revelation echoes further some of the impacts of deforestation highlighted earlier on this [...]

Fight against malaria and mosquitoes registers high success. Washington Post reports:
The findings from Rwanda and Ethiopia are the first to show a greater than 50 percent reduction in malaria mortality nationwide in “high burden” countries. Such dramatic reductions had been achieved previously only in smaller regions or in countries where the disease is less pervasive.

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A blast of fresh melodies from one of the most respected vocalists from Ethiopia…

Here it is: the last entry for 2007! And one to push you into top gears in ‘08.
If you have been keeping sleepless or restless nights lately over an idea that may fetch you money, then you need to read about Amsale, whose break came while planning her wedding. Amsale couldn’t find what she [...]

By Remmy Nweke. HANA Correspondent, Lagos, Nigeria
Cisco Systems is to invest $10 million to develop its network infrastructure on the continent.
According to the report, five African countries who stand to benefit from the initiative are Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Kenya.
Cisco, a global leader in networking is known to have transformed the way [...]