In a country where medical assistance, quality and service at a reasonable price is hard to come by, chronic diseases like kidney failure and its unending trips to the hospital for dialysis is a tough ask for anyone.

A new report jointly released by the Ethiopian government and donors on the number of people in need of food aid remains unchanged. The recent figures indicated by the report is now at 7.8 million people.

A former Ethiopian Airlines hostess, who moved to the United States two years ago, is in critical condition as an assailant made an attempt on her life by throwing sulfuric acid on her.

The growing use of khat among teenagers could create a future mental health crisis, experts have warned.

The Adwa town administration in Tigray Regional State unveiled a project to build mausoleums and statues costing over 260 million birr to glorify the patriots who took part in the Victory of Adwa that saw the defeat of an Italian army that attempted to colonize Ethiopia.

With small and dwindling statistics on Ethiopian women entering fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics a.k.a. STEM fields; the annual ‘Ethiopian Challenge Girls Making app’ has been launched in an effort to appease the next generation of girls that choose to enter the male-dominated fields in the capital.

Akon – the self-described “pan-Africanist” pop star is in Ethiopia until Tuesday. In what is expected to be a jam-packed schedule, including a visit to the ancestral town of his Ethiopian fashion designer wife, Rozina Nigussie in Gondar, Amhara Regional State and commemorate the Victory of Adwa.

The Water Resources Development Fund (WRDF) signed a financing of 400 million birr potable water project development with six new micro-towns targeted to reach some 81,000 beneficiaries.

Earlier this week the Ministry of Health (MoH) disclosed that it has identified and selected qualified medical institutions to diagnose and treat Ethiopian domestic workers who are traveling to the Middle East and Gulf countries.