Following a TV report alleging that Ethiopian Israeli women were being given contraceptive shots against their will, Israel’s Health Ministry has ordered physicians to put a stop to the practice. The ...

Bogaletch Gebre, the Ethiopian women’s rights activist who fought to end female genital mutilation, has died. She was said to be 66. Gebre died in Los Angeles on November 2, according to KMG Ethiopia, ...

GENEVA, March 13 (UNHCR) - Some 15,000 Lou Nuer tribespeople have fled to western Ethiopia from South Sudan in recent weeks to escape clashes with a rival tribe and for fear of reprisal attacks. "Most ...

Lovise Aalen receives funding from Research Council of Norway: the Young Research Talent scheme (2015-2018) and the Norglobal programme for development research (2019-2022). Until the war in Tigray ...

RUIRU, Kenya, January 16 (UNHCR) - On the outskirts of Nairobi, Alemnish Tefera Abebe sits in her living room, curtains drawn to block out the invasive midday heat. The cool darkness contrasts with ...

Influential Ethiopian women’s rights activist Betelehem Akalework says she has been forced to move home twice in two years after enduring a barrage of online abuse, death threats and physical ...

Maaza Mengiste was in Rome, doing research for her new novel, “The Shadow King,” when she found a picture taken in Ethiopia in 1935, when Italians invaded. It was, she says, an incredible moment for ...

In Ethiopia, cervical cancer screening uptake remains low (14%), despite efforts to increase access to preventive services. While Ethiopia’s national screening program currently uses a ...

Lip plating is a body modification common to many African tribes, especially women in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan. The lip plates or discs, as often called, are made out of clay or wood of about 5 cm ...