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Since 2012, MSF has been running a mother and child healthcare project in Sidama Zone of SNNPR (Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region) in Ethiopia. MSF will, end of October 2014, hand-over the project to the Ministry of Health and regional authorities. MSF has mainly been working in the two Woredas (divisions) of Chire and Mejo. In collaboration with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, MSF has been able to save the lives of many women and children and curb preventable morbidities. Since the intervention began, more than 12,000 women have benefited from Antenatal- and postnatal care, over 2,000 pregnant women have delivered in safe conditions and more than 1,500 children with complicated severe malnutrition have been treated in the stabilisation centres in Chire and Mejo. Gallery: Mother and child healthcare project in Sidama, Ethiopia | Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International

[MSF]Oval-shaped huts scattered all around a small area adorned with lush indigenous trees and expansive green meadows that give a feeling of homeliness is typical of villages in the Sidama zone, where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a maternal health project in the Chire and Mejo divisions (known as woredas). - See more at: http://www.ethioscoop.com/news/17005-unobstructed-motherhood-women-delivering-safely-in-sidama.html#sthash.2wAPj6cC.dpuf

Kassa A, et al. – This study was designed to establish the prevalence of and predictors for PAS use among undergraduate HU Students. The prevalence of PAS use among undergraduate HU students is high. Designing effective strategies to reduce PAS use should be everyone’s priority. Full Text 

Ethiopia ’s government illegally detained at least 5,000 members of the country’s most populous ethnic group, the Oromo, over the past four years as it seeks to crush political dissent,  Amnesty International  said. Victims include politicians, students, singers and civil servants, sometimes only for wearing Oromo traditional dress, or for holding influential positions within the community, the London-based advocacy group said in a report today. Most people were detained without charge, some for years, with many tortured and dozens killed, it said. “The Ethiopian government’s relentless crackdown on real or imagined dissent among the Oromo is sweeping in its scale and often shocking in its brutality,” Claire Beston, the group’s Ethiopia researcher, said in a statement. “This is apparently intended to warn, control or silence all signs of ‘political disobedience’ in the region.” The Oromo make up 34 percent of Ethiopia’s 96.6 million population, according to the  CIA World Factb