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Famine and poverty are a result of poor governance, not overpopulation Some of the most densely populated places are among the richest 7:00AM BST 20 Sep 2013 180 Comments SIR – Sir David Attenborough blames famine in parts of the world on over-population (report, September 18). But this cannot be. Some of the most densely populated places (Hong Kong or London for example) are also among the richest. Some of the driest places (California or Saudi Arabia) again are among the richest, and the inhabitants, despite their numbers, are not dying of thirst. The only conclusion which can be drawn about poverty is that it is caused by governments, and not by the size of the population. Roger Merryweather  Stroud, Gloucestershire SIR – We would like to thank Sir David Attenborough for his recent interest in Ethiopia but his comments about famine in Ethiopia and “too many people for too little piece of land” (Comment, September 19) are somewhat outdated. Eth

Hawassa University has launched its brand new software called  Student Information System  to strengthen teaching learning process. The software is mainly designed and developed by the ICT Directorate Staffs of the university. It has two kinds of version to satisfy the user requirements. These are the desktop application and web based system. The software was developed for the Registrar and Alumni Directorate and other teachers/ lecturers and students to process and manipulate the student records in short period of time that helps to strengthen the teaching learning process. In general terms this software is a desktop and web-based application that helps to manage the student information commonly called registrar system. It helps different sectors of the university to manage the student information throughout the university (i.e. in different campuses and colleges the university has) .It has four basic modules that are classified to make it flexible and easy to manage. These mo

Report to the City of Hawassa on Street Women and Children Martha A. Nathan MD Fulbright Specialist, Hawassa University Referral Hospital Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University Baystate Campus    To: Mayor, Hawassa, Ethiopia and City Committee on Street People From: Martha Nathan MD Re: Preliminary report on Study of Hawassan Street Women and Children Date: May 24, 2012 Subject: Street Women and Children Preliminary Report This brief preliminary report summarizes my investigation of 19 street women and 26 children that I conducted from April to June in Hawassa town. I am a visiting physician acting as senior staff at the Referral Hospital Internal Medicine Department at Hawassa University since October 2011, teaching medical students and interns. My husband is a professor of anthropology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at the university. We are both United States Fulbright Scholars. We have collaborated on anthropological researc

This book presents a report on a study conducted in a wastewater treatment plant at Hawassa University Referral Hospital. It aims at reviewing the design, configuration, effectiveness & quality of effluent discharged into lake Hawassa. The concern was to ensure full protection of lake hawassa. Hawassa City is one of the largest tourist attraction cities in Ethiopia where the lake is used as the heart of the the city's tourism industry in the form of recreation, fishing and many other public uses by villages located downstream. The study pointed out an overall acceptable treatment potential of the system for organic fraction of wastes, however its performance for heavy metals and nutrients was inadequate. The book also tries to link the potential problems to medicinal products, by-products and hormones which might have very serious effects to the lake ecosystem, though this part remains uninvestigated. In addition to this the treatment pond has been suffering from poor mainte

Fichchee is a valuable and unique cultural heritage of the Sidama society, of Ethiopia, of Africa and the world. As provided in UNESCO's 2003 Convention on Intangible Cultural Assets, Fichchee, qualifies to be inscribed in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding. As such it must be recognized and protected as national and world heritage. The Ethiopian government has indicated that it would send a request to UNESCO to register Fichchee and Meskel as two cultural world heritages in Ethiopia. Nevertheless, the onus is on the Sidama administration to take the lead to make sure that Fichchee is first recognized in the country as the national heritage and then proper documentation has been prepared by the Government of Ethiopia to submit to UNESCO to justify the demand for global recognition and protection. The Sidama people both at home and in Diaspora wish to express their support to the current movement in Ethiopia to ensure the international reco