• The the U.S. Agency for International Development, started support- prevalence of HIV-positivity was calculated by dividing the ing VMMCs performed in prioritized countries in southern and number of males who received a positive test result for HIV by eastern Africa. (cdc.gov)
  • Researchers from the University of Oxford, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Endangered Wildlife Trust, South Africa and Panthera used generalised linear models and generalised linear mixed models to identify taxonomic and geographical biases in previously published research into large carnivores in Africa, and also uncovered biases associated with land use type and author nationality. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Population assessments have been biassed towards southern and eastern Africa, particularly South Africa and Kenya. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Outside South Africa, 41% of studies did not include authors from the study country, suggesting that significant opportunities exist for capacity building. (eurasiareview.com)
  • When he came to power in 2018, which brought a wind of hope and unity to this Horn of Africa country with more than 80 ethnicities, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed promised to hold the most democratic elections Ethiopia has ever seen. (africanews.com)
  • Eastern Africa is known for Lake Victoria and some of the world's best coffee. (geoguessr.com)
  • This interactive educational game will you learn even more about eastern Africa by learning the locations of the countries in region. (geoguessr.com)
  • Ousmane Dione, a Senegalese national, is the Country Director for Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan, in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region. (worldbank.org)
  • Since joining the Bank in 2000 as a water resources management specialist, Dione has held a number of operational and leadership positions in Africa, South Asia, Latin America. (worldbank.org)
  • Ousmane brings to Eastern and Southern Africa more than 20 years of experience leading water, urban and environment programs in Africa, South Asia, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and East Asia and the Pacific. (worldbank.org)
  • Here we present genome-wide ancient DNA data for six individuals from eastern and south-central Africa spanning the past approximately 18,000 years (doubling the time depth of sub-Saharan African ancient DNA), increase the data quality for 15 previously published ancient individuals and analyse these alongside data from 13 other published ancient individuals. (nature.com)
  • Here we present new genome-wide aDNA data and radiocarbon dates from three Late Pleistocene and three early to middle Holocene individuals associated with LSA technologies at five sites in eastern and south-central Africa: Kisese II and Mlambalasi Rockshelters in Tanzania, Fingira and Hora 1 Rockshelters in Malawi, and Kalemba Rockshelter in Zambia (Fig. 1a and Extended Data Table 1 ). (nature.com)
  • We analyse these data together with the published sequences of 28 other ancient African individuals recovered from contexts spanning the past 8,000 years and largely associated with foraging at 17 sites in eastern, central and southern Africa. (nature.com)
  • In Children of Hope, Sandra Rowoldt Shell details the life histories of sixty-four Oromo children who were enslaved in Ethiopia in the late nineteenth century, liberated by the British navy, and ultimately sent to a Free Church of Scotland mission in South Africa, where their stories were recorded through a series of interviews. (ohioswallow.com)
  • stephensi genetic diversity revealed three cytochrome oxidase I (COI) haplotypes, all of which have been observed in other countries in East Africa and one also observed in South Asia. (bvsalud.org)
  • During 2010-2012, CDC (through the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) supported 1,020,424 VMMCs in nine countries in Southern and Eastern Africa. (cdc.gov)
  • During 2013-2016, CDC-supported implementation partners performed 4,859,948 VMMCs in 12 countries in Southern and Eastern Africa, a substantial increase from 2010-2012. (cdc.gov)
  • Medical authorities in South Sudan have been on high alert for cases of the disease after an outbreak in Somalia in May quickly spread to Kenya and Ethiopia. (voanews.com)
  • Although drought, famine, government repression, and conflict with insurgents were the principal causes of large-scale refugee migrations, other factors such as resettlement and villagization in Ethiopia and conflicts in southern Sudan and northern Somalia also generated refugees. (countrystudies.us)
  • The 1984-85 famine resulted in the death or displacement of hundreds of thousands of people within Ethiopia and forced about 100,000 into Somalia, 10,000 into Djibouti, and more than 300,000 into Sudan. (countrystudies.us)
  • Polio vaccination campaign launched in South Sudan state. (voanews.com)
  • TORIT - Health officials in South Sudan have launched an emergency campaign to vaccinate 700,000 children under the age of 15 in Eastern Equatoria state against polio by the end of the week after a child in the state was diagnosed with the crippling and potentially deadly disease last month. (voanews.com)
  • The small outbreak is significant because the region that became South Sudan in 2011 has been polio-free since 2009. (voanews.com)
  • A nationwide polio vaccination campaign in South Sudan is scheduled for November and December. (voanews.com)
  • Record-high levels of acute food insecurity are expected in Ethiopia through at least mid-2022, with northern, southern, and south eastern parts of the country of highest concern, according to the latest Ethiopia Food Security Outlook (FEWSNET, October 2021 - May 2022). (wfp.org)
  • Sudan's war against the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) forced many Sudanese into Ethiopia. (countrystudies.us)
  • The Ministry of Health runs four polio vaccination campaigns every year and says 94 percent of South Sudanese children under five have been vaccinated against the disease. (voanews.com)
  • The 1977-78 Ogaden War and the 1978 drought in eastern Ethiopia forced large numbers of people across the southeastern frontier into Somalia. (countrystudies.us)
  • In northern Somalia, the Somali National Movement (SNM) had been fighting Somali government forces, and in the process hundreds of thousands of Somali fled into Ethiopia. (countrystudies.us)
  • Ethiopia's southern and south eastern pastoral areas are facing a third consecutive below-average rainfall season, with an intensifying drought causing significant livestock losses, wiping out fragile livelihoods, and worsening food insecurity through mid-2022. (wfp.org)
  • Furthermore, based on genetic network analysis, we uncovered that Dire Dawa, the site of a spring 2022 malaria outbreak, was one of the major hubs from which sequential founder events occurred in the rest of the eastern Ethiopian region. (bvsalud.org)
  • Cushitic languages are dominant in southern and eastern Ethiopia and are used by the Oromo and Somali peoples. (linkethiopia.org)
  • Tens of thousands of ethnic Somali civilians living in eastern Ethiopia's SomaliRegionalState are experiencing serious abuses and a looming humanitarian crisis in the context of a little-known conflict between the Ethiopian government and an Ethiopian Somali rebel movement. (hrw.org)
  • At least 31 people have been killed in clashes this week between two tribes in Sudan's Blue Nile state bordering Ethiopia , the security services said on Saturday. (newarab.com)
  • Photographed inside the Yirgalem prison, located in the Southern Nation and Nationality Peoples Region of Ethiopia, this image was captured during an Ethiopian Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) outbreak investigation, and depicted a number of prisoners receiving treatment for TBRF, which included the administration of intravenous fluids. (cdc.gov)
  • Ethiopia's diverse geography is reflected in its marked climatic variation and, contrary to the image of popular imagination, Ethiopia receives abundant rainfall in many areas. (linkethiopia.org)
  • The 2016 DRA aid project in Eastern Ukraine . (cordaid.org)
  • The prevalence of stunting in Ethiopia has been decreased considerably from 58% in 2000 to 44% in 2011 and 38% in 2016. (researchsquare.com)
  • Although the prevalence of stunting in Ethiopia has decreased considerably from 58% in 2000 to 44% in 2011 and 38% in 2016, it remains high and is considered a major public health problem for the country (12-15). (researchsquare.com)
  • Models are tested by comparing the situation in four different countries (Austria, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Latvia). (researchgate.net)
  • A number of Baka hunter-gatherer populations in south-eastern Cameroon became sedentarised in the 1950s, but still rely on hunting and gathering to meet their basic needs. (cifor.org)
  • WFP is working throughout Northern Ethiopia with the Federal government and regional authorities to reach populations affected by the conflict, wherever possible, and calls on all parties to respect the organization's assets, staff and commodities, and access to areas of need. (wfp.org)
  • The ancestry of the individuals in our study area can be modelled as a geographically structured mixture of three highly divergent source populations, probably reflecting Pleistocene interactions around 80-20 thousand years ago, including deeply diverged eastern and southern African lineages, plus a previously unappreciated ubiquitous distribution of ancestry that occurs in highest proportion today in central African rainforest hunter-gatherers. (nature.com)
  • Specifically, we assayed 2070 genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms across 214 samples spanning 13 populations of A. stephensi from Ethiopia and Somaliland collected in 2018 and 2020, respectively. (bvsalud.org)
  • stephensi populations in Ethiopia to inform vector control strategies. (bvsalud.org)
  • The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to assess the prevalence of stunting and its associations with wealth index among under-five children in Ethiopia. (researchsquare.com)
  • Substantial progress toward achieving VMMC targets has been made in the 10 years since the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS recommended scale-up of VMMC for HIV prevention in 14 Southern and Eastern African countries with generalized HIV epidemics and low male circumcision prevalence ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • In northern Ethiopia, the food security situation in all three regions of Afar, Amhara and Tigray is already critical and will worsen if conflict-induced interruptions to humanitarian aid continue. (wfp.org)
  • I'm also affiliated with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) and with the Centre for Middle Eastern Advanced Studies (CMES) at Lund University. (lu.se)
  • The Rift Valley's wet season usually starts and finishes a few weeks earlier than the highland's with slightly higher temperatures and Oromo in the South receives most precipitation in March, April and May. (linkethiopia.org)
  • During that same period of 12 months we have helped more than 1.5 million refugees to return home voluntarily - more than a million to Afghanistan, 300,000 to Cambodia, tens of thousands to Ethiopia. (unhcr.org)
  • Due to their large country ranges, studies in Chad and Ethiopia should especially be considered a priority. (eurasiareview.com)
  • In the highlands, the climate is favourable with daytime temperatures ranging from about 14 - 25 degrees C. Rain tends to be more abundant in the South West Highlands while in the North East the rains fail altogether every decade or so, perhaps giving rise to the misleading images which tend to be associated with the whole of Ethiopia. (linkethiopia.org)
  • WFP has a funding gap of US$579 million to deliver life-saving food assistance and livelihood support activities to 12 million people in Ethiopia over the next six months. (wfp.org)
  • Ethiopia votes Monday in highly anticipated parliamentary elections as the country, Africa's second-most populous is rocked by violence, particularly in the Tigray region. (africanews.com)
  • Several invasive mosquito species that are nuisances or of medical and veterinary importance have been introduced into the Southeastern region of the USA, posing a threat to other species and the local ecosystems and/or increasing the risk of pathogen transmission to people, livestock, and domestic pets. (cdc.gov)
  • To facilitate the development of invasive mosquito surveillance in the region, we, the Mosquito BEACONS (Biodiversity Enhancement and Control of Non-native Species) working group, conducted a survey on the capacities of various public health agencies and pest control agencies engaged in mosquito surveillance and control in seven Southeastern states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina). (cdc.gov)
  • These two countries are opposed to the "Great Renaissance Dam", a titanic hydroelectric project on the Blue Nile, a source of national pride in Ethiopia, where it is considered fundamental for the country's energy autonomy and development. (africanews.com)
  • Malnutrition remains as a major public health problem in the world, particularly in developing countries such as Ethiopia. (researchsquare.com)
  • The government of Ethiopia has envisioned digitalizing primary healthcare units through the electronic community health information system (eCHIS) program as a re-engineering strategy aiming to improve healthcare data quality, use, and service provision. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In northern Ethiopia, food insecurity is expected to be most severe, with Extremely Critical levels of acute malnutrition and likely hunger-related mortality concentrated in Tigray. (fews.net)
  • This includes US$316 million that is urgently needed to deliver emergency food and nutrition assistance to 3.7 million people in northern Ethiopia over the next six months. (wfp.org)
  • How Is The Philippines Preparing For Conflict In The South China Sea? (eurasiareview.com)
  • In late March, Paul Borsboom will visit Eastern Ukraine to see what has been achieved so far and how we can continue to help the needs of those who have been hit hardest by the conflict. (cordaid.org)
  • Development assistance for health expenditure (lagged one and two years) had a significant positive effect on life expectancy at birth in Ethiopia. (seejph.com)
  • From the necessities of travel such as documentation and vaccinations, to the more interesting aspects such as food, drink and cultural awareness, it's all explained to you by the informed combination of the excellent Bradt's travel guide and a charity which has been immersed in Ethiopia for 20 years. (linkethiopia.org)
  • We conducted an exploratory study to determine the enablers and barriers to successfully implementing eCHIS in rural Wogera district, northwest Ethiopia. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The Prime Minister does not need to be the darling of the West, the East, the South or the North," his spokesperson, Billene Seyoum, said this week. (africanews.com)
  • The area still contains relatively undisturbed forest expanses, just south of the Dja Biosphere Reserve, one of the most important protected areas in the Congo Basin. (cifor.org)
  • In southern and southeastern pastoral areas, October to December deyr/hageya rainfall is delayed and significantly below-average through mid-November. (fews.net)
  • Therefore, this study aims to analyze the effect of development assistance for health on health status in Ethiopia. (seejph.com)
  • Using dynamic time series analytic approach for the period 1978-2013, this paper examines whether development assistance for health has contributed for health status change in Ethiopia. (seejph.com)
  • This study indicates that, seemingly, development assistance for health has significant favourable effect in improving health status in Ethiopia. (seejph.com)
  • Parents in Eastern Equatoria are being encouraged to bring their children to health centers or to wait for volunteer immunizers to come to their homes. (voanews.com)
  • In Ethiopia, a predominantly rural society, the life of peasants is rooted in the land, from which they eke out a meager existence. (countrystudies.us)
  • Ethiopia has made good progress in reducing stunting amongst young children, starting from very high levels in the 1990s (11). (researchsquare.com)