By Laura Meader | Photography by Jasper Lowe Every day across the Horn of Africa, Ethiopians eat
injera, the country’s staple flatbread. Yet the very preparation of this nutritious bread puts their health at risk.
The culprit? Cookstoves often a small, open fire burning wood, charcoal, or dung and the fine particulates they release into homes.
Breathing in these particulates disproportionately affects women and very young children, contributing to respiratory infections, fatigue, low birth weights, and reduced growth. And worse. Indoor air pollution is the deadliest environmental problem in the world, killing an estimated four million people every year, according to the World Health Organization.
Ethiopia and Sudan to resume negotiations on Grand Dam
Ethiopia and Sudan to resume negotiations on Grand Dam
16 de diciembre de 2020, 10:3Addis Ababa, Dec 16 (Prensa Latina) Ethiopia and Sudan agreed to increase efforts to resume negotiations between the two countries and Egypt around the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as soon as possible, according to reports. Regarding an official statement, the head of the Ethiopian Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy, Seleshi Bekele, and the Minister of Sudan s cabinet of Irrigation and Water Resources, Yasser Abbas, agreed to work to try to conclude a very lengthy process.
Bekele and Abbas reviewed how the negotiation is progressing in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, and, according to the source itself, agreed that it is urgent to resume it with the leading participation of experts from the African Union to resolve the differences between the parties.