July 1, 2011
The investigation of Better Futures Adoption Services in Ethiopia leads to a revocation of its license. Charges of corruption mount--resulting in a decrease in the number of international adoptions.
June 30, 2011
Over the past several years, Ethiopia has rapidly become one of the top "sending countries" in international adoption: the number of children sent abroad has recently grown from a few hundred to several thousand annually. In the context of...
June 16, 2011
Every year, throughout the world, millions of young girls are forced into marriage. This traditional practice spans continents, language, religion and caste.
June 16, 2011
Over the past eight years, photographer Stephanie Sinclair has investigated the phenomenon of child marriage around the world. Her multimedia presentation synthesizes this body of work into a powerful call to action.
Afghanistan, Africa, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Yemen, Asia, Culture, Middle East, Human Rights, Poverty
June 16, 2011
Stephanie Sinclair shares the experiences child brides face. She discusses the need for their voices to be heard and the challenges she faced as a journalist who witnessed their struggles and abuse.
May 16, 2011
Will the recent foreign push to acquire fertile African land spur development or further threaten the continent's food security?
April 13, 2011
As global food prices continue to remain high, experts says there is one often-overlooked solution for fighting hunger: women.
May 6, 2010
View the entire slide show at the Des Moines Register.
April 22, 2010
A country dependent on food aid is also selling off farmland to foreign companies interested in export production for their home markets. How Ethiopia became a leader in this global trend, and what it says about exploitation and self-sufficiency.
April 22, 2010
In Ethiopia, farms backed by foreign investors are growing with abundance, while native farmers subsist on food aid. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports about the unlikely abundance in a land known for famine.
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JEFFREY BROWN: Now a story of...
March 18, 2010
In much of the developing world, women spend more time fetching water than any other activity in their day. For more than a billion people, the water they do get is unsafe. Some 2.6 billion must make do without functioning toilets.
March 18, 2010
In Ethiopia, where lack of access to water is a significant issue, aid groups have found that local involvement in establishing water wells betters the chances that they will last. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on these community-based initiatives,...
November 25, 2009
Peter Sawyer and Maura Youngman, Pulitzer Center
October 2, 2009
Last November Foreign Exchange aired a special edition, focusing on the nearly 1 billion people around the world who lack access to clean water and sanitation. The host, Daljit Dhaliwal, highlighted Pulitzer Center's work on water issues in...
October 1, 2009
MEKELLE, Ethiopia — Dima Yehea’s two-year-old son has large brown eyes and a sweet, carefree smile. He sits on his mother’s lap wearing only an old T-shirt. Dima, dressed in a loose hospital gown, looks at me with intent,...
September 30, 2009
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The first time Tadu Gelana’s mother suggested she get married, Tadu thought she was kidding. Only 14 years old, Tadu had not yet finished school or had her first menstruation cycle. Tadu laughed at the...
September 29, 2009
In the U.S., a woman has a 1 in 4,800 chance of dying from complications due to pregnancy or childbirth in her lifetime. In Ethiopia, a woman has a 1 in 27 chance of dying. Hanna shares her experiences and observations in a five-part series on...
September 29, 2009
JIMMA, Ethiopia — When Zemzem Moustafa went into labor with her fifth child - at age 30 - she could sense a problem. Living in a thatched-roof hut in Ilebabo, a rural village in western Ethiopia, she and her husband walked to the local...
May 7, 2009
Nicholas Wadhams and Zoe Alsop, for the Pulitzer Center
The Associated Press has confirmed that Anthony Mitchell, one of its Nairobi correspondents, died in Saturday morning’s crash of Kenya Airways flight KQ507 in Cameroon.
April 27, 2009
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
April 17, 2009
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
March 27, 2009
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
Two weeks of briefings and field interviews on water and sanitation, first in Istanbul at the World Water Forum and then in Ethiopia, leave three indelible impressions.
