We describe a new species of giant spitting cobra, Naja ashei sp. nov., from eastern and north-eastern Africa. The species was previously regarded as a colour phase of the black-necked spitting cobra, N. nigricollis. However, mtDNA sequence data show it to be more closely related to N. mossambica than N. nigricollis. The new species is diagnosable from all other African spitting cobras by the p...

Standard WHO insecticide bioassay tests were carried out in Gorgora, northern Ethiopia to evaluate the susceptibility status of Anopheles pharoensis Theobald for the insecticides DDT, malathion, permethrin and deltamethrin. The mortality and when appropriate knockdown effect of the insecticides were observed. The results indicated that this species was resistant to DDT. A high mortality was obt...

The WHO Executive Board has selected three candidates to be presented to the World Health Assembly as nominees for the post of Director-General. The three nominees were announced at a public meeting on 25 January. They are Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, nominated by the Government of Ethiopia, Dr David Nabarro, nominated by the Government of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Dr Sania Nish...

Ð This paper introduces a systematic but simple approach to classifying and ordering sources of risk faced by subject populations. By distinguishing between the incidence and severity of subjective risk perceptions, this method enhances understanding of the nature and variation of risks faced within a population. We demonstrate the usefulness of the method as applied to pastoralist communities ...

The number of agricultural cooperatives increased quickly in Ethiopia since the 1990s. While many papers studied impact membership Ethiopian cooperatives, not much is known on their performance. This study takes a cooperative-level perspective which unique an African context. It compares economic performance proxied by sales revenue and profit wide range northern Ethiopia. Data were collected f...

objective: evaluation activity was conducted using three spearmint genotypes (wg-spm-engl, spm-fran and spm-eas) and one standard check (wgsm-03) at wondo genet, awassa, debre zeit and allagae during 2012 and 2013 for two years. methods: the treatments were arranged in randomized complete block design with four replications. data on leaf to stem ratio, leaf yield/ha, essential oil content and e...

1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA; 2Tigray Agriculture Bureau, Tigray, Ethiopia; 3Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; 4Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; 5Suhul Hospital, Tigray, Ethiopia; 6Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; 7Tigray Regional Health Bureau, Tigray, Ethiopia; 8World Healt...

for determining the fatty acid characteristics and biodiesel quality of ethiopian jatropha provenances, the study was conducted in five regions namely southern nation nationalities peoples regional state (snnprs), amhara region, tigria region, oromia region and benishangul gumuz regions, where physic nut is found abundantly. for each region, representative sampling sites were selected following...

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute viral disease of small ruminants. The disease was first reported in Tanzania in 2008 when it was confined to the Northern Zone districts bordering Kenya. The present study was carried out to confirm the presence of PPR virus (PPRV) in Tanzania and to establish their phylogenetic relationships. Samples (oculonasal swabs, tissues and whole blood) were ...

Abstract The involvement of smallholders in various inclusive business models (IBMs) is being widely promoted Ethiopia. inclusion, exclusion and distribution effects IBMs must be better understood, however, order to make them more impactful. This study, which was carried out three districts northern Ethiopia, employed a mixed methods approach. Our results show that inclusion are both complex mu...