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Somali Refugees in EthiopiaBy Jina Krause-Vilmar

Food is scarce in Ethiopia, where most of the population lives in rural, drought-prone areas in a state of chronic poverty. In 2010, the Government of Ethiopia identified 5.2 million people in need of emergency food aid. Not surprisingly, this hunger crisis also impacts the thousands of refugees living just within Ethiopia's borders.

fixeensaBoruu Barraaqaa, author of the bestselling Oromo novel, MUDAAMUDDII, is introducing his third well-structured and timely book FIXEENSA to the public. FIXEENSA is a brilliant novel that is based on a true story about Oromo politics in recent times. It widely reflects on the socio-political life of the Oromo society in the last couple of years, both at home and abroad.

IGAD & EthiopiaBy Peter Heinlein | Addis Ababa

A hastily-called summit of East African leaders has ordered the immediate dispatch of 2,000 additional troops to Somalia to reinforce the beleaguered African Union peacekeeping mission.

Jeffrey Gettleman calls Somalia the "most dangerous place in the world."

The East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that the country — where violent rebels fight for control and wreak havoc in villages nationwide — is just as hopeless as it was in 1991, when the central government collapsed.

"There's no green zone. There's no one part of Somalia that's safe," Gettleman says. "That's the problem. In some of these other countries like Iraq or Afghanistan, where I've worked, there are conflict areas, there are lawless areas, but there's one part of the country that is somewhat stable, where if you needed help, you could get it. In Somalia, that doesn't really exist."