USERNAME 
PASSWORD 
Subscriber? · Lost password?
Lost username? · More help

Ethiopia

22-23
67-75
14
28-31
53-60
409-449
700-709
574-584
311-322
366-376
244-251
141-152
333-348
715-716
Editor's drawer/Article


SEE ALSO: Adultery; Ethiopia
PDFPDFZoom in on this pageIMAGES
523-537
560
Sep 2003 Ratio of the number of Ethiopians at risk from famine today to those who died in 1984's record famine: 13:1
Source:

World Food Programme (Rome)

Jul 2000Percentage change in Ethiopia's population since its last famine in 1984: +42
Source:

Embassy of Ethiopia (Washington)

Jul 1999Ratio of people killed this year in the Kosovo war to those killed in the Ethiopian-Eritrean war: 1:10
Source:

U.S. Department of State/Harper's research

September 4, 2007 Ethiopian authorities planned to use strychnine-laced meat to kill tens of thousands of stray dogs in Addis Ababa before the Coptic New Year.
Source:

AP via Newsvine.com

January 12, 2007Mengistu Haile Mariam, the former dictator of Ethiopia who now lives comfortably in Zimbabwe, was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment on genocide charges.
Source:

New York Times

December 13, 2006Former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, who is said to have strangled Emperor Haile Selassie with his bare hands and buried him under a toilet, was convicted of genocide by an Ethiopian court.
Source:

NYT

September 4, 2006Around 125 people in Ethiopia died from an outbreak of acute watery diarrhea.
Source 1:

Seacoast Online

Source 2:

Reuters

July 21, 2006 Somalia declared an “all out holy war” on Ethiopia.
Source:

Somalinet.com via Google News

July 19, 2006 Ethiopia denied reports that it had attacked Somalia.
Source:

BBC

November 2, 2005In Ethiopia, 23 people were killed during protests over government vote-rigging.
Source:

Reuters

June 21, 2005In Ethiopia a twelve-year-old girl was abducted and was about to be forced into marriage but was rescued by lions, which ran her captors off and guarded her until police and relatives came to her rescue.
Source:

AP

March 5, 2005Archaeologists in Ethiopia unearthed several four-million-year-old skeletons believed to be ancestors of modern humans.
Source:

Reuters


December 2009

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
Why the Hudson River Will Never Run Clean
By David Gargill

THE MASTER OF SPIN BOLDAK
Undercover with Afghanistan’s Drug-Trafficking Border Police
By Matthieu Aikins

MERMAID FEVER
A story by Steven Millhauser

UNDERSTANDING OBAMACARE
By Luke Mitchell

Also: Dave Hickey and Wendell Berry