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By: www.businessinsider.com   You might have heard or seen the term “fair trade” when buying your coffee. Fair trade coffee provides coffee growers, most of whom live in developing countries, with fairer wages that can help lift them out of poverty. Hugh Jackman journeyed to Ethiopia in 2009 as an ambassador for World Vision Australia, a humanitarian organisation, to see first hand how fair trade coffee makes a difference to both local growers and the environment. A film crew tagged along and filmed his experience for the recent documentary Jackman wanted to see how hard life can be for farmers, some of whom struggle to get enough food. Once he reaches Ethiopia he meets up with a 27 year old farmer named Dukale. He aims to try and help Dukale, and farmers like him, to lift themselves out of poverty. “It’s not the way things are meant to be. And it’s not the way things have to be,” Jackman says in the film’s trailer. One of the best way to help these farmers is to

US President Barack Obama made history this week by becoming the first sitting president to visit Ethiopia and to deliver a speech before the African Union. Obama's plan to visit Ethiopia was rebuked by human right advocates who argued that it would award undue praise to the Ethiopian government, which has pursued a crackdown on local media workers resulting in dozens of detentions and multi-year prison sentences, including the jailing of six members of the Global Voices community. The ruling party also secured 100% of parliamentary seats in the May 2015 elections, leaving Ethiopians suspicious that authorities had interfered with electoral systems. The tone of the disappointment and anger began to ease after the release of several bloggers and journalists prior to the arrival of President Obama. President Barack Obama and Ethiopia Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn hold a press conference at the National Palace Barack Obama and PM Hailemariam Desalegn hold a press conferen

By APF US President Barack Obama's visit to Ethiopia, which saw him speak out against democratic restrictions, was positive but Washington must maintain pressure on the government, an Ethiopian opposition figure said Wednesday. "I was not in favour of his coming, but (the visit) exposed Ethiopia and its government," said Merera Gudina, the vice-president of the opposition Medrek party, hailing the media and NGO interest generated by Obama's remarks. "I think the cause of democracy benefited from this," Gudina said. "But we have to wait for the follow-up. If the US really means business, they have a lot of leverage with the Ethiopian government. But the US needs Ethiopia on the war on terror. It's a major ally in the Horn of Africa," he said, adding that he feared Obama's comments were "only for public relations." Obama was in Ethiopia on Monday and Tuesday, making the first-ever visit to the country by a US

Caroline White Thursday, 30 July 2015 A planned caesarean section birth is ‘safest’ for breech delivery, but the absolute risks of vaginal delivery are small, reveals an analysis * of the available published evidence in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology . The best way to deal with breech babies is the subject of ongoing debate, as C-section is not without risk. The researchers therefore pooled the data from 27 relevant studies, involving just short of 259,000 women, to find out the absolute and relative risks of death and complications associated with planned vaginal breech delivery up to seven days after the birth. The analysis suggests that the overall perinatal mortality in the planned vaginal delivery and planned caesarean section grou