Ethiopia News » Afar News Ethiopia » Afar » Health: World news in brief: Aid for Ethiopia, Abyei drone strikes condemned, extreme heat and newborn health
The World Health Organization (WHO) is scaling up emergency health response operations across Afar, Amhara and Tigray in Ethiopia to address growing humanitarian and health needs resulting from ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Health: Afar Regional Health Bureau in Ethiopia Receives Training on EWARS to respond to health and Nutrition Emergency
Samara, 20 April 2016 – The WHO Ethiopia Country Office (WCO Ethiopia) at the request of the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health conducted training on Early Warning Alert and Response System (EWARS) ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Health: Ethiopia: ICRC responds to humanitarian needs amid renewed hostilities in the north
Renewed hostilities in northern Ethiopia have heightened humanitarian concerns for communities already affected by years of armed conflict, displacement and disruption to essential services. In Tigray ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Health: WHO's emergency response in Northern Ethiopia
The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with national and regional health authorities and health partners, is scaling up emergency health response operations across Afar, Amhara and ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Health: News - Funding shortfalls threaten health services in Ethiopia's conflict-hit regions, UN warns
Funding shortages threaten essential health and nutrition services in Ethiopia's conflict-affected regions, with 10 of the 16 operational mobile health and nutrition teams in Amhara expected to shut ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Health: Simple Job Aids Help Ethiopian Health Workers Boost Child Immunization Through Better Communication
A qualitative study across three Ethiopian regions finds that interpersonal communication job aids improved frontline health workers' counseling skills and raised routine immunization coverage, ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Health: Eruption of long-dormant Ethiopian volcano subsides
In this photo released by the Afar Government Communication Bureau, ash billows from an eruption of the long-dormant Hayli Gubbi Volcano in Ethiopia's Afar region, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. Credit: Afar ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Health: Making Childbirth Safer for Pastoralist Mothers in the Afar Region of Ethiopia
This blog post is cross-posted from The Road Less Travelled. In the Afar region of Ethiopia, 93 percent of mothers deliver their babies at home with the assistance of traditional birthing attendants ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Health: More than 58,000 evacuated by earthquake in Ethiopia’s Afar region
Addis Ababa, Jan 9 (Prensa Latina) More than 58,000 people, including 4,000 workers at the Kesem sugar plant, are in temporary shelters due to earthquakes recorded in the Afar region of Ethiopia, an ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Health: Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams scale up medical response to increase in war-wounded
The current situation in northern Ethiopia is very worrying, as conflict between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and their allies, and the Ethiopian National Defence Forces has resumed.