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The Ethiopian Water Crisis By The Numbers (PHOTOS)

Posted 03.29.2012

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Of the 1 billion people worldwide who lack access to clean water and safe sanitation, approximately 75 million live in Ethiopia. With an average ...

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Aregawi Gebreyohannes, Ethiopian Opposition Candidate, Stabbed To Death

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian officials say an opposition candidate has been stabbed to death in northern Ethiopia. The candidate's party sa...

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The Raw Machismo of Dictatorship

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alemayehu G. Mariam

It was a remarkable display of raw machismo: "My way or the highway... or jail!" It was a one-man political theatre, a monologue about absolute power,...

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Mothers Of Ethiopia Part II: Escaping Child Marriage

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011

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Editor's note: Hanna Ingber Win, the Huffington Post's World Editor, was recently invited by the UN Population Fund to visit its maternal health progr...

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Mothers Of Ethiopia Part I: Zemzem's Journey

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 12.07.2011

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Editor's note: Hanna Ingber Win, the Huffington Post's World Editor, was recently invited by the UN Population Fund to visit its maternal health progr...

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Ethiopia Convicts 13 In Absentia, Including An American Professor, Over Coup Plot

Reuters | Barry Malone | Posted 05.25.2011

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A U.S.-based university professor is among 13 men convicted in absentia by Ethiopia for plotting to overthrow the government, the state news agency sa...

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The Price of Polygamy In Ethiopia: 12 Wives + 78 Children = Trouble (VIDEO)

UNFPA | Posted 05.25.2011

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In this remote, densely-populated region of Ethiopia, it is common for men to have multiple wives. In Ayatu's case this tradition has backfired.

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Brian Adkins, US Diplomat, Killed In Ethiopia

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011

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The State Department has announced that a U.S. diplomat, Brian Adkins, was killed in Ethiopia on Saturday, Reuters reports. "The death is under inves...

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