Drought-ravaged Ethiopia
El Niño has caused massive crop failure, reduced livestock and pushed millions of people in Ethiopia into food insecurity
Drought affects livestock economy of African countries
Ethiopia is among the worst affected with more than half a million livestock dying due to drought conditions
Climate policies lack focus on sustainable mountain development in East Africa
There is need to integrate issues of climate change adaptation into development policies, plans and strategies
New drought in Ethiopia puts recovery at risk
A new drought is emerging in southern and southeastern pastoral areas of the country
Famine creeps in on Africa while the world’s media looks elsewhere
The western media's focus on events at home like the US elections and the UK Brexit referendum has come at the expense of reporting on the famine …
How to make Africa food self-sufficient, again?
Africa is the only continent that imports more food than it produces. With ground reports from 10 African countries, Down To Earth's editorial …
A continental crisis, and a few green shoots
African countries are fighting an addiction: import of food items, which happens at the cost of domestic farmers. Despite the unprecedented …
Africa: How climate change turned two of the world’s oldest tribes into enemies
Shrinking of the world's largest desert lake has triggered a survival battle among nomadic tribes in the Kenyan-Ethiopian border
How can Africa breathe easy when millions of used cars from the West hit its roads each year?
In absence of any no regional or global agreements to govern the flow of used vehicles, the continent is now getting flooded with polluting vehicles
Dam collapse kills at least 38 in Kenya; flood situation in East Africa remains grim
Torrential rains have wreaked havoc in the last few weeks, destroying thousands of homes and displacing more than half a million people across …
Pest attacks continue to threaten Africa’s food security
Amidst crop losses, researchers call for using genetically modified maize
Flood situation in East Africa still remains grim
Communities in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda are facing fresh bouts of flooding besides facing hardships due to earlier bouts
How Ethiopia and Kenya have put a world heritage site in danger
The lake inflow hydrology has already changed, which means that nutrient inflows and their distribution through the lake have also been affected
Coffee out of cafe
A new book lays bare the popular myths about the beverage you sip daily
Ethiopia, Rwanda make history; churn out gender-balanced cabinets
Both nations join a handful of mostly European nations to have this distinction
Fall Armyworm attack: Ethiopia wakes up as pest wreaks havoc
The authorities are distributing chemicals and disseminating information to farmers and the general public
Addis Ababa’s street hustlers helped build the city – now they’re being pushed out
Both the intellectualism of the elites and the street smarts of hustlers and sex workers transformed the neighbourhood of Arada into a social and …
African leaders meet to draw plan for a climate-resilient continent
They noted that while Africa contributed the least to global emissions, it is the first in line of suffering the dramatic consequences of them
Climate extremes, population rise to cause water, food scarcity in Upper Nile: Study
While the region is expected to receive heavy rainfall, it will be too slow to result in significant changes in runoff demand, researchers said
Land degradation a major threat but avoidable. So why the inaction
'None of the countries have set numerical targets for land degradation neutrality'
Abiy Ahmed has won the Nobel Peace Prize: but big challenges still await Ethiopia
Abiy is the 12th winner from Africa to be awarded the prize. Last year it was won by medical doctor Denis Mukwege from the Democratic Republic of …
Fresh drive to close gaps on health issues facing women and girls
Local capacities critical to making a difference must be strengthened
In the future there will be more rain, but less water, in the Nile Basin
About 250 million people are reliant on the Nile’s waters in Ethiopia, Uganda, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt
Lessons on how to effectively tackle insect invasions
There are alternatives to pesticides including integrated pest management. This is an approach that doesn’t rule out the use of pesticides, …
Ethiopia’s poll has been pushed out by COVID-19. But there’s much more at play
It was only in October 2019 that Nobel Peace Prize winner and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed stated explicitly that any delays in the poll would …
