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Spotted hyenas provide ecosystem services that improve human welfare and contribute to sustainable development goals.
A fighter loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
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Violence in Ethiopia could cause ripples across the Horn of Africa, destabilizing the region.
Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia.
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Ethiopia’s main religions need to take an emotional distance from politics and find a neutral space so they can get moral clarity.
Higher temperatures cause drought, and can lead to food insecurity.
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Many of the temperatures presently being recorded in Africa, and those projected in the next decade, are already close to the limits of human survival, or “liveability”.
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Where will an end to the conflict come from?
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Unless the blockade by Ethiopia is lifted, Tigray will be in a very bad famine situation.
Internally displaced people in Tigray in April 2021.
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A nurse moves scrap from a damaged part of the Wukro General Hospital which was shelled, in Wukro, north of Mekele, on February 28, 2021.
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The rate and scale of the destruction of Tigray’s healthcare system is severe.
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A consequence of a warming world is prolonged dry spells and periods of drought that can lead to infectious diseases like cholera.
A herd of cows returning from a drinking hole in Amboseli, Kenya.
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African livestock keepers need help: without proactive interventions, increasing temperatures will reduce meat and milk production.
Dead animal carcasses lie outside of the village of Dambas in Kenya during a drought in 2006.
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The next year appears likely to bring another sequence of La Niña-related droughts to eastern East Africa. The time to act is now or many will suffer.
People who fled the war in Tigray gather around in a temporarily built internally displaced people.
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The biggest challenge to the health system is the war in Tigray and other insecurity all over the country. Conflict has made COVID-19 prevention and vaccination efforts impossible in many areas.
A nurse at Amudat Hospital in Northern Uganda, checks on a child being treated for kala-azar. The disease mostly affects children and young adults.
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Kala-azar, already one of the most neglected diseases on the planet, is in danger of becoming even more neglected.
Binoora Bhultse demonstrates the two-handed moyzé whistling technique used in the Oyda district of southwest Ethiopia.
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Name tunes are unknown in most of the world, but they are found in two very distant communities.
Chinese engineers pose after welding the first seamless rails for the China-Laos railway in Vientiane, Laos, June 18, 2020.
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Through its Belt and Road Initiative, China has become the world’s largest country-to-country lender. A new study shows that more than half of its loans threaten sensitive lands or Indigenous people.
A Tigrayan refugee places a cross made from twigs on the banks of a river marking the border between Ethiopia and Sudan where bodies frequently wash up.
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Domestic and geopolitical factors mean that the Ethiopian conflict has enough fuel to burn for some time.
Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge receives his drink bottle on the way to gold in the men’s marathon of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
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Kenya’s dominance in distance running has been repeatedly tested, most recently by the emergence of Ethiopia as a powerhouse.
Refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo gather by a market in the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Uganda.
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Uganda is making an effort in a neighbourhood where few other countries have the same enthusiasm.
In north Ethiopia, farmers commonly use an ox-drawn single-tined plough called mahrasha.
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Due to warfare, ploughing and planting was not timely in Tigray. This may lead to a second year with failed crops.
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame meets Israel’s then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2017.
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Most countries in Africa have chosen to separate the issue of the Palestinians from economic cooperation with Israel.