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SEATTLE - She wrote the letter more than 46 years ago. From Ethiopia, Ann Owens felt the pain and shock of President John F. Kennedy's death and put pen to paper in a touching letter to her mom. Owens writes, "Dear Mom, Even the Ethiopian sky is in mourning today and it was raining last night when President Kennedy died... I feel now as if a member of my family had died. In a very real sense he ...

Three of these four novels are debuts, with authors sharing their stories from Norway, Italy, Afghanistan and Ethiopia.

AN Australian couple gave up their adopted Ethiopian children to authorities after being unable to cope with their being older than claimed.

Aid workers must be pragmatic - if food was getting to people, then the money was doing its job. The food shortage in Ethiopia is still on-going. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

AFP/Addis Ababa Ethiopia’s dwindling Jewish community, known as the Falash Mura, said yesterday their living conditions at home were desperate and appealed on Israel to keep its pledge to welcome them.

Bob Geldof has challenged the BBC to substantiate its report that millions raised for famine relief in Ethiopia were diverted to pay for weapons.

Ethiopia's dwindling Jewish community, known as the Falash Mura, on Tuesday said their living conditions at home were desperate and appealed on Israel to keep its pledge to welcome them.

Three sisters from Ethiopia were reunited in Moncton, N.B., on Monday after a three-year-long effort by a couple from Bouctouche.

The prime minister of Ethiopia has stepped into the row between Sir Bob Geldof and the BBC which has claimed that 95 per cent of the $100m aid raised, by Live Aid and others, to fight famine in rebel-held northern Ethiopia in 1985 was diverted to be spent on weapons.

Bob Geldof and charities deny aid was spent on weapons but corporation executives say reports are credible The BBC is standing by a report that 95% of the $100m aid raised to fight famine in northern Ethiopia in 1985 was diverted by rebels and spent on weapons, despite denials by Bob Geldof and leading charities. A programme broadcast last week by the BBC World Service's Africa editor, Martin ...