Launching National Nutrition
Strategy
Realities and Expectations
Recently Ethiopia launched a
first-ever National Nutrition Strategy (NNS) bringing
together concerned bodies including ministerial offices,
in a coordinated channel under the leadership of the
Ministry of Health.
State officials, observers and local and international
experts regard the Ethiopian National Nutrition Strategy
as unique among its kind in it’s over all vision.
For some, this strategy could be seen as exemplary
not only for African nations but also internationally,
for all countries that still have generations suffering
from food insecurity and malnutrition.
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Lucy’s Legacy: The
Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia
On November 24,
1974 after a long hot morning of surveying for fossils,
Donald Johanson and Tom Gray made the discovery of
a lifetime. Searching in a maze of ravines at Hadar
in northern Ethiopia, Johanson spotted a tiny fragment
of arm bone on the ground that he quickly identified
as a hominid – an ancestral member of the family
of humans. Looking up the slope, he saw a skull bone,
then a femur, some ribs, a pelvis and the lower jaw.
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