President Biden announces historic vaccine donations to Africa
Today, President Biden of the United States is set to announced a historic vaccine donation including purchase and…
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China hands over medical supplies to improve health Ethiopia
Today, the Chinese Government, through its international aid agency, the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDAC), has handed…
ECA’s Songwe echoes Africa’s expectation from G7 summit
Leaders of the Group of Seven nations (G7) including the United Kingdom (UK), Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,…
African countries set to miss urgent COVID-19 vaccination
PRESS RELEASE – As COVID-19 cases in Africa rise for the third week running and vaccines are increasingly…
Global leaders confer on clean, healthy future for all
Over 20 leaders, including ministers of health and energy, heads of international organizations and senior representatives from civil…
Guinea: African development bank approves $430,000 grant for ebola emergency relief project
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $430,000 grant to Guinea to…
Africa gets sanitation, hygiene champion
The African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) has appointed Mrs Fatima Maada Bio, the First Lady of the…
UN Ethiopia kicks off World No Tobacco Day campaign
The United Nations in Ethiopia on Monday kicked off activities to mark the 34th World-No-Tobacco Day with a…
Nissan provides finance to fight against COVID-19 in India
In response to the COVID-19 crisis in India, spurred on by a second wave of cases, Nissan has…
HEINEKEN USA, Waze to reduce drunk driving
HEINEKEN USA, in conjunction with Waze, the world’s leading traffic and navigation app, today announced a partnership in…
WHO supports people quitting tobacco
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) ‘Commit to Quit’ tobacco campaign has made resources from its Quitting Toolkit freely…
Zambia turns tap to protect residents from Covid-19
A water point attendant in Zambia’s capital Lusaka has a new role beyond filling up containers for residents…
Healthy Heart Africa calls for continued hypertension management
This year, the Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia and Population Services International (PSI)joined forces with AstraZeneca’s Healthy…
African Development Bank provides $31 million grant to Ethiopia
The African Development Bank and the Government of Ethiopia have signed an agreement for a $31 million grant…
Gulf Air transports urgent medical supplies to India
Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, is to support a cargo airlift of urgent…
WHO lists additional COVID-19 vaccine
The World Health Organization (WHO) today listed the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, giving the green light…
e.l.f. Cosmetics changes game, comes on Twitch
Today e.l.f. Cosmetics becomes the first major beauty brand to launch a branded channel on Twitch – the…
Lundbeck South Africa ranked as best place to work
Lundbeck South Africa, an affiliate of the global biopharmaceutical company committed to researching, developing and delivering transformative therapies…
WHO calls for better hand hygiene
The World Health Organization (WHO) highlights the urgent need to reduce inequalities in the availability of good hand…
Ethiopia secures $31 million grant for nutritional services
The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund has approved a grant of $31.2 million to the…
Analytica expands enhanced infusion system into Middle East
Analytica, the Australian developer of the Enhanced Infusion System (EIS) and PeriCoach® pelvic floor exercise system for the…
Ethiopian Airlines, China’s biotech giant to launch COVID-19 testing lab
Ethiopian Airlines has joined hands with BGI Health Ethiopia, a subsidiary of China’s biotech giant, the BGI Genomics…
Malaria vaccine reaches 650,000 children in Kenya, Ghana, Malawi
Two years on from the launch of a pilot program, more than 1.7 million doses of the world’s…
Ethiopian Airlines delivers COVID-19 vaccine to São Paulo
Ethiopian Airlines Group, Africa’s leading Airline, has transported 3.5 Million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Shanghai to São…
Ethiopian delivers 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Harare
Ethiopian Airlines has transported 1,056,000 doses of COVID19 vaccines in a single flight. Ethiopian transported the vaccines in…
Ministers call for support to Africa’s COVID-19 fight
African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development have unanimously called on the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)…
African Union set to launch test, vaccine passport
Ethiopian Airlines (Ethiopian) has partnered with the African Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (Africa CDC) for the…
Ethiopia gives COVID-19 vaccination for health workers
The Ministry of Health of Ethiopia on Saturday begins vaccination of COVID-19 with a high-level national event held…
Ethiopia receives 2.2 million COVID-19 vaccines
Today, Ethiopia has received 2.184 million doses of the Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine via the COVAX Facility.
Ethiopia coronavirus cases surpasses 151,000
The total number of people infected by the global pandemic coronavirus in Ethiopia surpasses 151,850.