African ministers said on Sunday it was time the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stopped "imposing" economic policies on the continent without consultation. Trevor Manual, the South African finance minister, told an economic conference in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, that there should be "nothing about us without us. I think it is time for decisions in the IMF to no longer to be imposed on us, but to derive from consultation with us."

Working closely with the Field Office Director, the Emergency Program Coordinator will oversee and manage Save the Children's emergency programs in Ethiopia which include an Emergency Food Distribution Program, Emergency Nutrition and Health Program and a Non-Food Emergency Response Program.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that 12.5 million Ethiopians are at risk of starving, as there is still a substantial shortfall to the agency's $90 million appeal for emergency operations in that country.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said the controversial decision of the independent Ethio-Eritrea Boundary Commission (EEBC) to place Badme town and surrounding localities within Eritrea was "wrong and unjust," the government press reported on Wednesday. Addis Ababa's objection over Badme going to Eritrea had raised fears of another war between Ethiopia and its former northern province, despite repeated assurances by Ethiopia that it wants a peaceful resolution.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has stated that it is deeply disturbed by the recent jailing of Melese Shine, editor-in-chief of the Amharic-language weekly "Ethiop". Another journalist, Tewodros Kassa, the former editor-in-chief of "Ethiop", has been imprisoned since May 2002. Shine was charged with defamation under Ethiopia's Press Proclamation No.34/1992 after a letter to the editor published in "Ethiop" in November 2001 alleged that Melkamu Gettu, the administrator of the state-owned Ras Desta Hospital in the capital, Addis Ababa, had embezzled hospital funds.

Families facing eviction from a displacement camp near the Ethiopian capital complained bitterly on Tuesday after a mysterious fire tore through their ramshackle homes.

Ethiopia has vowed to combat the problem of child labour in the country, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said on Wednesday. The Ethiopian parliament has backed an international convention that aims to wipe out the “worst forms” of child labour and could result in jail sentences for businesses employing children.

Mulu is the mother of two young children ages two and five, and is an active participant in the Community Based Health Care (CBHC) Project supported by Catholic Relief Services and its implementing partner, the Alemtena Catholic Church. Mulu feels that she is a better mother now with the knowledge that she gains during her monthly health education sessions in her village. During the sessions, she learns about managing various illnesses including diarrhoea, fever, coughs and colds that effect her children.

Despite the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ethiopians are in no better position today than they were in the 1940’s when it comes to bringing human rights violators to justice. This time, however, we only have the Ethiopian Government to blame. Thus far, close to 90 states (at least 19 states from Africa, including Djibouti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Zambia) are parties to the ICC Statute and a number of other states are expected to join soon. Ethiopia does not appear in either list, says this article from the Addis Tribune.

Study papers presented at a two-day consultative workshop organised by the World Bank (WB) and the Ministry of Capacity Building (MoCB) revealed that Ethiopia stood lowest among developing countries in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

The head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea is holding key talks with South African President Thabo Mbeki on the peace process between the two countries, the UN said on Thursday. The UN’s Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) has recently expressed concern over the three-year-old peace process which is now at a critical stage.

Ethiopia is one of the worst countries in the world to be a mother, according to a global study by the NGO, Save the Children. Only Niger and Burkina Faso are ranked worse, according to the annual 'Mothers Index' report released on Tuesday.

Ethiopia's judiciary is failing to prevent widespread human rights abuses, a landmark conference on federalism, conflict and peace building heard on Wednesday.

The UN’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Ethiopian government are tackling mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS, which has affected as many as 200,000 children in Ethiopia. UNICEF has joined the ministry of health and the HIV/AIDS Prevention Control Office (HAPCO) to combat transmission of the deadly virus.

Ethiopia is aiming to harness alternative basic education as a way of tackling the millions of children left out of school, a conference heard on Tuesday.

The head of Ethiopia’s National Election Board has been arrested on charges of corruption and is expected to appear in court on Wednesday.

One in five African children die before they reach their fifth birthday, a conference in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa heard on Tuesday. Experts warned that many of the children die simply because of the poor environment they are forced to live in.

On 14 April 2003, Ato Melese Gessit, the former editor-in-chief of "Gemoraw" newspaper, was fined 11,000 Ethiopian birr (approx. US$1,300) by the Third Criminal Bench of the Federal High Court. He is accused of violating Articles 10(1) and 20(1) of Press Proclamation No. 34/85 and Articles 480(b) and 580(1) of the Penal Code. Melese was charged with publishing and disseminating three contentious articles.

Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin has accused the independent Boundary Commission of "belittling" Ethiopia's calls for changes to the new border with Eritrea. "No-one expects the government of Ethiopia to accept these mistakes committed by the Commission," he said in a statement written in Amharic. A foreign ministry translation was received by IRIN on Wednesday.

The Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO) clashed with the government on Tuesday over claims that 39 people “disappeared” after being held by the security forces. The group argues that the whereabouts of some 39 people who were held by security forces are unknown. But government officials described the findings in an EHRCO report as “extremely dubious”.