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This guide was developed based on experiences and learning from an Action Against Hunger Protection team in Ethiopia. It shows how social and behavior change techniques can be applied to protection and gender-based violence (GBV) programming, to create awareness on GBV issues, reduce community members’ tolerance to GBV, and increase social support to GBV survivors. […]

This is an important question because many anthropologists see bipedalism – which means walking on two legs – as one of the defining characteristics of “hominins,” or modern humans, and their ancestors. It is difficult to give a simple answer, though, because bipedalism did not just appear one day. It went through a gradual evolution […]

Tigrayans residing in Afar region of Ethiopia have urged the terrorist TPLF to immediately pull out from places it forcefully occupied by invasion.Tigrayans in Semera and Logia towns have conducted a rally today to protest the provocative acts of the t…

Leaders of the U.S., Germany, France, and the UK warned Tehran that its continued nuclear advances and obstacles to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s work will jeopardize its return to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA, also known as the Iran nuclear agreement.   Meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in […]

Tigrayan forces said on Saturday they had seized the strategic town of Dessie in Ethiopia’s Amhara region where tens of thousands of ethnic Amharas have sought refuge from an escalation in fighting, but the government denied this.   The fighters pushed Ethiopian government forces from Dessie and were headed towards the town of Kombolcha, Getachew […]

SITUATION AT A GLANCE   6-7 MILLION People Facing Severe Acute Food Insecurity in Afar, Amhara, and Tigray USAID – August 2021   5.2 MILLION People in Tigray Requiring Humanitarian Assistance UN – May 2021   2.1 MILLION People Displaced by the Crisis Across Northern Ethiopia IOM – August 2021   49,490 Refugees From Northern […]