Read more Ethiopia stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1946/ethiopia.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:30:14 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73228/desert-rift-creating-new-african-sea-slowly.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAfrica is getting a new ocean—in a million years, give or take. It's starting with a 35-mile rift in the Ethiopian desert caused by the eruption of a volcano in 2005. The rift will eventually meet with the Red Sea, allowing the waters to spill in, say scientists. The...http://www.newser.com/story/73228/desert-rift-creating-new-african-sea-slowly.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 03 Nov 2009 14:14:09 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/68125/famine-fear-returns-to-ethiopia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAlmost 25 years after Live Aid aimed to eradicate famine in Ethiopia, the country is facing new threats of malnutrition and mass starvation, the Independent reports. Ethiopia's erratic rains are the main culprit, failing to fall or coming too little too late, while recession-minded donors in wealthy nations are also...http://www.newser.com/story/68125/famine-fear-returns-to-ethiopia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 30 Aug 2009 16:08:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65345/us-brands-refugees-terrorists-denies-asylum.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRefugees hoping to stay in America are SOL if they backed armed movements back home—even if they fought dictators or have since worked for the United States, McClatchy reports. Following a Patriot Act provision, officials have denied more than 7,000 requests for green cards, refugee status, and asylum...http://www.newser.com/story/65345/us-brands-refugees-terrorists-denies-asylum.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 26 Jul 2009 16:58:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64192/how-twin-cities-best-somali-youth-ended-up-jihadis.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFor a group of young Americans, the path to an al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group in Somalia led through the Carlson School of Management in Minneapolis, where one planned to become a doctor; another, an entrepreneur. But now the students are at the center of what may be the most pressing domestic...http://www.newser.com/story/64192/how-twin-cities-best-somali-youth-ended-up-jihadis.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 12 Jul 2009 11:14:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63678/african-adoption-without-the-madonna-mess.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMadonna’s second adoption made other adoptive parents cringe, Bess Rattray writes for Vogue —not because the adoption itself was a bad idea, but because the media circus and the lack of “an established, transparent adoption system,” in Malawi made it look like baby stealing. Oh, and the "$800 haircut and...http://www.newser.com/story/63678/african-adoption-without-the-madonna-mess.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 06 Jul 2009 14:56:43 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/44768/watershed-vaccine-may-end-malaria-toll.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagScientists have developed a promising vaccine against malaria, a devastating disease that kills a milion people a year, most of them young children. Trials of the breakthrough vaccine enter the final phase next year and it could be widely available by 2012, reports the Los Angeles Times . Successful trials have...http://www.newser.com/story/44768/watershed-vaccine-may-end-malaria-toll.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 09 Dec 2008 1:45:59 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/38605/ethiopian-tops-own-marathon-record.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHaile Gebrselassie broke his own marathon world record on Sunday, becoming the first runner to finish in under 2 hours, 4 minutes, the AP reports. The Ethiopian clocked 2:03:59 to win his third straight Berlin Marathon, beating the mark of 2:04:26 he set last year over...http://www.newser.com/story/38605/ethiopian-tops-own-marathon-record.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 28 Sep 2008 14:58:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/37482/brangelina-gives-2m-for-ethiopian-hiv-clinic.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAngelina Jolie and Brad Pitt donated $2 million to establish a center to care for children affected by tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia, People reports. The center will be named after daughter Zahara, 3, who they adopted from the African nation. "It is our hope when Zahara is older she...http://www.newser.com/story/37482/brangelina-gives-2m-for-ethiopian-hiv-clinic.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 15 Sep 2008 11:33:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/36721/biofuel-firms-african-land-grab-has-colonial-echoes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAfrica is being seeded for a coming boom in biofuels, as Western companies buy thousands of acres to cultivate vegetable-oil-rich plants like the Jatropha curcas, Der Spiegel reports. In countries like Tanzania, Ghana and Ethiopia, firms are often securing century-long farming rights for nothing but a promise to invest in...http://www.newser.com/story/36721/biofuel-firms-african-land-grab-has-colonial-echoes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 05 Sep 2008 17:20:01 CDT