Girma Kebbede

Living with urban environmental health risks : the case of Ethiopia

Introduction: The state and development Urban growth and decay Urban water supply Urban sanitation and waste management Pollution The state of health and health services Summary and conclusion Bibliography Index.

Ready and Willing...but still Waiting: Eritrean Refugees in Sudan and the Dilemmas of Return

Ready and Willing...but still Waiting: Eritrean Refugees in Sudan and the Dilemmas of Return

Sudan's predicament : civil war, displacement and ecological degradation

Introduction - Sudans predicament, Girma Kebbede Sudan - the North-South conflict in historical perspectives, Girma Kebbede South Sudan - a war-torn and divided region, Girma Kebbede war, social transition and illness conception - the case of tuberculosis, Jok M. Jok civil war in Sudan - the impact of ecological degradation, Mohamed Suliman losing ground - land impoverishment in Sudan, Girma Kebbede the challenges of peace, Girma Kebbede.

The agonies of displacement: Ethiopian women refugees in Khartoum, Sudan

ConclusionFor the overwhelming majority of the Ethiopian refugees in urban Sudan, there seems to be no end to their plight. Their lives are in limbo. When they left their homeland most thought thei exile would be temporary. They sought temporary refuge only until the conditions at home improved and they might return in safety. Unfortunately, the conditions for their repatriation have never developed. Armed conflicts in Ethiopia still continue to rage unabated. the regime in power also continues to abuse fundamental human rights.Many of the refugees also thought they would have peace and security and, perhaps, a decent livelihood in their asylum home. These have not materialized either. The Sudan, faced with numerous problems, including civil war, drought, famine, huge external debt (in excess of

Living Terraces in Ethiopia: Konso Landscape, Culture and Development (review)

12 billion), open unemployment, and pervasive underemployment, is not even able to cope adequately with the basic needs of its own citizens, let along that of a refugee population of over a million. Worse, refugees are blamed for every problem from bread and water shortages to skyrocketing rents and have become convenient targets for harassment by the frustrated public.Others hoped for resettlement in another country. However, for the vast majority of refugees, resettlement opportunities elsewhere are virtually impossible to attin. The industrial countried are unwilling to grant asylum to large numbers of Third World refugees. These countries content that most Third World refugees are not victims of political persecution but simply migrants in search of better economoc opportunities. The few refugees to whom these countries are willing to grant asylum are those with the best qualifications: the young, the educated, and the highly skilled.As long as the current status quo in Ethiopia remains unaltered, voluntary repatriation is highly unlikelt. On the contrary, one sees more and more evidence in the country of continued uprooting of masses of people from their homes and land. It is sad that, goven the immense contradictions in the country, the possibility of negotiated solutions to the wars and a return to democracy is nowhere in sight. The plight of hundred of thousands of innocent women and men will not be solved anytime in the immediate future of them to return home in safety, peace, and dignity. For most of these refugees the future is uncertain, probably unpleasant, possibly bleak.

Property-tax exemptions and the fiscal crisis of central US cities

provides an excellent analysis of the shifting parameters of labor patterns, commodity production, indigenous resistance, and failed ecological policy in recent decades. Covering the broader time frames of landscape formation and change, however, requires interpretations that can tease out the links between ecological change and indigenous knowledge. Analyses of the legacies of sacredness, the shifts in ascriptions of value to plants and animals, and the ecological history of husbandry practice are needed complements to Sunseris close reading of the documentary sources. Conservation, and ultimately restoration, depend upon all the historical knowledge we can muster.

The state and development in Ethiopia

Abstract Fiscal disparities between US central cities and their suburban communities have long been recognized. Many older medium-sized and large cities in the North-eastern and North-central regions of the USA are suffering from a continuous decline in their tax bases. Governments of aging central cities have lost much of their tax base to the expanding suburban jurisdictions and are unable to generate the revenue needed to meet the growing public service demands placed upon them.