BADHAASAA, EthiopiaBADHAASAA, Ethiopia — A cattle-herding tribe in southern Ethiopia has crowned a new king in a secret ceremony considered so sacred that the Borena people believe it has the power to ...

Gelagay Ayelet Melesse's doctoral research reveals that there are several serotypes of the virus causing foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and the African horse sickness virus (AHSV) and several different ...

Ethiopia’s large livestock industry is set to undergo a shake-up following a new livestock trading bill, passed on 21 January. The new law, due to be enforced in March, is designed to tighten Ethiopia ...

Ethiopia’s cattle have rich genetic diversity due to different environmental conditions, breeds, and geographical isolation. Molecular markers (microsatellites and SNPs) have been instrumental in ...

July 21, 2013: The Kenyan government and the East African Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD of which Ethiopia is a member) had used a new economic analytic method to evaluate the ...

The United States has secured market access for its live cattle, day-old chicks and eggs in Ethiopia. The deal comes just about three months after Washington offered to back Ethiopia’s $10 billion ...

Close to seven million people in Ethiopia are plagued by a severe drought with scores of livestock dying from a lack of water and food supplies, forcing many to head to displaced people camps where ...

KURA KALICHA, Ethiopia, April 6 (Reuters) - After three years of failed rains, the animals in the southern Ethiopian village of Kura Kalicha are dying. Dozens of decomposing cattle carcasses lie on ...

Saado Osman straps two bulging sacks of United Nations wheat to her donkey, one of the few animals the 70-year-old eastern Ethiopian herder has left since the rains stopped. Like millions of others in ...