Since his landmark visit 25 years ago for famine relief efforts, Irish rock star and activist, Bob Geldof for the first time pays a 3-day visit in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, one among worst-stricken region by the 1984’s devastating famine.

Business Journal - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $8.1 million to Emory University’s School of Nursing for a project to improve maternal and newborn survival rates in rural Ethiopia.

Addis Fortune - An Ethiopian singer-songwriter Tewodros Kassahun, a.k.a Teddy Afro, handed over more than 1.1 million Br to a local NGO, Elshadai Relief & Development Association on Friday October 29, 2009. The money was obtained from a concert the singer had performed at Addis Ababa Stadium on October 11, 2009 to help people with a life of begging.

The African Youth Summit will be held here in Addis Ababa from Oct.29-Nov.5, 2009.

Breast Cancer awareness creation walking was held for the third time in Ethiopia on Sunday jointly by Mathiwos Wondu - YeEthiopia Cancer Society and the Ethiopian Cancer Association at Meskel Square. A cancer control programme is important for prevention, treatment and care, Dr. Bogale Solomon, cancer specialist said.

In a statement issued on the second day of the ICPD+15 expert meeting gathered here in Addis Ababa to review progress achieved in the implementation of ICPD Plan of Action, members of the civil society attending the meeting made a number of observations and recommendations for the improvement of the final phase of implementation of ICPD Programme of Action (PoA).

Some 32 NGOs have been undertaking various development projects in Afar State at a cost of over 130 million Birr, regional disaster prevention and food security bureau said.

Germany’s next top model Sara Nuru arrived here late Saturday to visit an integrated rural development projects being undertaken by Menschen fur Menschn, an NGO.

Reuters - "Ireland," I answered the taxi-driver's question when I first went to Ethiopia in 2006. "You know ... Bob Geldof, Bono?," I continued, confident he would recognize me as a countryman of the two rockers who many Westerners think fed the world during the 1980s.

With only 8 weeks to go until the start of the SafeHands for Mothers' Pilgrims Walk for Life, MIDIRS has issued a further plea to health care professionals worldwide to lend their support to the fund-raising campaign, which aims to raise £350,000 in support of reducing maternal morbidity in Ethiopia.