Ethiopia undertook a major national reforestation programme this year, with the ambitious target of planting four billion trees in just three months. The highlight was a single day in July ...

Claim: Ethiopia says it planted more than 350 million trees in just one day which, if verified, would be a world record. Verdict: If it's true what the government says that 23 million people took ...

Every September 11—as the rains retreat and the earth drinks its final drops—the golden petals of the Meskel flower are blooming across Ethiopia. They blanket the highlands in yellow ...

A ddis Ababa, May 14/2024 (ENA) Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative, a national reforestation program, is preparing to plant more than 6.5 billion tree seedlings this upcoming planting season ...

Mahlet Solomon, a teacher in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, is one of the active participants in the tree-planting initiative over the years. Solomon said she successfully planted 10 saplings ...

Throughout its history, Ethiopia has experienced famine — according to one historian, at least one every decade on average between the 15th and 19th centuries. The Great Ethiopian Famine alone ...

He has spearheaded vast and rapid reforestation campaigns and committed to planting 5 billion trees by 2024. In 2022, he inaugurated Africa's largest hydroelectric dam, the Grand Ethiopian ...

Addis Ababa February 20 /2024 (ENA) Ethiopia is a good example in Africa where big push forward has been seen on tree planting, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Inger Andersen said.

Fifty years ago the Marxist-Leninist military junta known as the Derg took control of Ethiopia, toppling Emperor Haile Selassie and ending a monarchy that had governed the country for 700 years.

Ethiopia's Prime Minister has warned that anyone planning on invading his country should "think 10 times" before doing so because, he said, any attack would be repelled. Abiy Ahmed did not direct ...

Addis Ababa – Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa (BMIA) today announced the launch of its Financial Journalism Training (FJT) program in Ethiopia at a ceremony attended by government, academic ...

It is also infuriated by reports that in return for use of a port, Ethiopia would become the first country to recognise Somaliland as a sovereign nation. Both the African Union (AU) and the US ...