American Spirit: For Every Pair of Shoes Sold, TOMS Gives Another Away to a Child in Need (CBS) A child in Soddo, Ethiopia, is getting his first pair of shoes. “We take it for granted in the U.S.,” said Blake Mycoskie, the 33-year-old founder of TOMS Shoes. “You know, I probably have 20, 30 pairs [...]

ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia’s ruling party and the main opposition groups in parliament agreed to an electoral code for next year’s polls, an opposition official told AFP Wednesday. The code sets out campaigning, voting and party symbol guidelines as well as how to deal with intimidation and violence, abuse of office and corruption. It also [...]

One of the most daunting hurdles for the trade in carbon offsets is the logistical challenge of connecting customers — typically carbon dioxide emitting companies based in America or Europe — with offset producers in places like South America, Asia, and Africa. With the help of an innovative new program developed by Veli Pohjonen and [...]

1. Tell us a little bit about your family and how you came to adopt from Ethiopia. We are very deliberate people. We dated 9 years before we got married, we waited 9 years to have a child, we adopted 9 years after that…..not sure what we will do in another 9 years! We live [...]

1. Tell us a little bit about your family and how you came to adopt from Ethiopia.  My husband Nathan and I have been married for 5 years. After 2 years of being unable to get pregnant, a miscarriage and a kinship adoption which fell through after our niece had been living with us for months, [...]

ATO SEYOUM MESFIN, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, said that 18 years since a military dictatorship of unprecedented cruelty had been removed from power in his country, the consequences of a lack of democracy within the context of great diversity were all too apparent.  The last 18 years had not been easy for Ethiopians, but [...]

Tell us briefly about your family and when you adopted. Our journey began in June of 2007 when my husband and I traveled to Ethiopia to pick up our son, Davis.  He was 17 months old, badly malnourished, suffering from Hepatitis A and battling parasites from unclean water.  While the children in his orphanage were [...]