<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Ethiopia: News &amp; Videos about Ethiopia - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Ethiopia</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Ethiopia from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:34:13 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Ethiopia: News &amp; Videos about Ethiopia - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Ethiopia</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Ethiopia from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>War's 'Lost Boy' grows up to graduate from college</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/11/09/lost.boys.sudan/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/11/09/lost.boys.sudan/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Kuol Dut was six when the swirling chaos of war churned through his village.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:41:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>First U.S. man since 1982 wins NYC race</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/01/nyc.marathon/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/01/nyc.marathon/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>For the first time since 1982, an American man won the New York City Marathon on Sunday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:08:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Oldest human skeleton offers new clues to evolution</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/10/01/oldest.human.skeleton/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/10/01/oldest.human.skeleton/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The oldest-known hominid skeleton was a 4-foot-tall female who walked upright more than 4 million years ago and offers new clues to how humans may have evolved, scientists say.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Angelina Jolie Takes Zahara to Ethiopia</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20304461,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20304461,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>The actress brings her daughter on "a very special trip" to her homeland</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gelila Assefa Puck: Fashion with African inspiration</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/06/gelila.puck/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/06/gelila.puck/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Ethiopian born designer has an eye for style. She launched a line of high-end handbags in 2006 and a year later married celebrated chef Wolfgang Puck. Together the couple live in LA and have made Forbes magazine's list of "Married celebrity entrepreneurs". While loving the California lifestyle, she still has strong connections to Ethiopia, putting much of her energy into her charity work there.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Somali refugee conditions 'appalling'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/03/somalia.refugee.conditions/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/03/somalia.refugee.conditions/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Somalis forced to flee war and drought are living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at home and in neighboring countries, including in Kenya and Ethiopia, an aid agency said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Small U.S. businesses thrive with Ethiopian woman's help</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/06/18/cnnheroes.alfa.demmellash/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/06/18/cnnheroes.alfa.demmellash/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Alfa Demmellash grew up on less than a dollar a day, and against the backdrop of torture and murder. But these days she's living the American dream and helping others do the same.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ethiopian forces back in Somalia, locals say</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/05/19/somalia.ethiopian.forces/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/05/19/somalia.ethiopian.forces/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Ethiopian forces returned to Somalia on Tuesday, seizing control of a Somali border town, a local journalist told CNN.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 15:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>War crimes charges don't deter Sudan leader from Ethiopia trip</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/21/sudan.president/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/21/sudan.president/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is on a state visit to neighboring Ethiopia despite being wanted for war crimes charges for his government's crackdown in Darfur.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Robust action' could curtail piracy, expert says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/15/pirates.action/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/15/pirates.action/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Both the United States and France pulled off-high profile rescues in the waters off the Horn of Africa in the past week, killing a total of five pirates to free hostages who had been holed up for days.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pentagon looks to move battle against pirates ashore</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/14/obama.pirates/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/14/obama.pirates/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>As the Defense Department weighs options to prevent a repeat of the drama that unfolded on the seas this weekend, those who patrol the waters say pirates must be rooted out before they leave land.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Behind the scenes: In the field, coffee a priority</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/03/starr.afghanistan/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/03/starr.afghanistan/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>When you are a CNN reporter out on the road, nothing is more important than the first task at hand every day -- securing the morning's first cup of coffee. After that, you can handle just about anything, from the war zone to the flood zone.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Peacekeepers' fury over Somalia killing</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/23/au.somalia/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/23/au.somalia/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The African Union responded angrily and defiantly to the killing of at least 11 Burundian soldiers in an apparent suicide bomb attack Sunday in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:44:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. diplomat in Ethiopia found dead</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/06/ehtiopia.american/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/06/ehtiopia.american/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Brian Adkins, a newly assigned American diplomat in Ethiopia, was found dead last weekend at his 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raise eyebrows</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/10/31/mf.safe.sex/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/10/31/mf.safe.sex/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Most people know that condoms prevent the spread of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:39:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>From 'Love Kitten' to child literacy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/04/30/heroes.ethiopia/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/04/30/heroes.ethiopia/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At age 19, Yohannes Gebregeorgis borrowed a soft-cover romance novel entitled "Love Kitten" that changed his life forever.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Civilians killed as Somali militants attack peacekeepers</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/09/24/somalia.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/09/24/somalia.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Islamist militants launched a massive assault on African Union peacekeepers in the Somali capital Wednesday, sparking battles that killed at least 17 civilians,  according to witnesses and journalists in Mogadishu.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Jolie-Pitt Foundation Establishes HIV/AIDS Clinic in Ethiopia</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20225673,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20225673,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>The charitable foundation will be named after the couple's daughter Zahara</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UN Program to Help Hunger Hot Spots</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1832021,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1832021,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A U.N. agency rolled out a $214 million program Tuesday to help 16 needy places hit hard by high prices for food and oil, amid a crisis already making it hard for aid groups to provide enough food for the world's hungry</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Among the Starving in Ethiopia</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1829996,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1829996,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The farmlands are bursting with grain but the country is still suffering from starvation. 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It was here that she was talent-spotted by a French film director and began her rise to supermodel status. </description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:58:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Liya Kebede - Q&amp;amp;A</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/01/07/Kebede.qanda08/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/01/07/Kebede.qanda08/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Liya Kebede spoke to CNN about her experiences of seeing the pain and suffering of mothers and children on a recent trip to Ethiopia and how conditions for them are slowly improving thanks to the help the World Health Organization (WHO), and her own charity, the Liya Kebede Foundation.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Rice urges cease-fire in Somalia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/05/rice.somalia/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/05/rice.somalia/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Somalia should reach a cease-fire with its "non-extremist" opposition and finish plans to draft a new constitution, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:53:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Rice: Somalia Needs Peacekeepers</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1691094,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1691094,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>More African countries should send peacekeepers to Somalia, where an Islamic insurgency has killed thousands of civilians this year, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ethiopia calls for help in Somalia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/04/ethiopia.somalia/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/04/ethiopia.somalia/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Ethiopia's government Tuesday called on the international community to step up its support for an African-led peacekeeping mission in Somalia, where Ethiopian troops have been mired in an Islamist insurgency since invading last December.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Somalia's War Flares Up Again</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1682877,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1682877,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>New fighting between Ethiopian troops and Somali insurgents is extinguishing the hope that the chaos was ending</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Q &amp;amp; A with Tafari Wossen</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/10/31/HaileG.qanda.Wossen/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/10/31/HaileG.qanda.Wossen/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Tafari Woosen is an Ethiopian Media Consultant with 40 years experience. Here he gives CNN his assessment of Haile Gebrsalassie and the impact that he has made during his prestigious career. </description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:53:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Clinic treats abused donkeys, the Ethiopian 'family car'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/08/29/ethiopia.donkeys.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/08/29/ethiopia.donkeys.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Ethiopian farmer Fekadu Asfaw stood defiantly before an angry veterinarian, having just beaten his four severely malnourished donkeys.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tyson Gay stays on track for sprint double, Kenya sweeps steeple chase</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/ncaa/08/28/bc.run.worldchampionshi.ap/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/ncaa/08/28/bc.run.worldchampionshi.ap/index.html</guid><description>Now for the easy part -- supposedly.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Hassles of Having Lucy in Houston</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1656226,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1656226,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A fabled fossil goes on view for the first time in decades -- and ignites a controversy</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ethiopian government frees 32 opposition members from prison</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/08/18/ethiopia.freedom.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/08/18/ethiopia.freedom.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Ethiopia freed 32 opposition members Saturday who had been held without charges since a disputed 2005 election led to violent street protests, a senior official said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ethiopia set for millennium party</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/08/19/ethiopia.millennnium.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/08/19/ethiopia.millennnium.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>More than seven years after most of the world marked the start of the 21st century, Ethiopia is putting the finishing touches to its own millennium bash.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brian Cazeneuve: Greatness ... on and off the track</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/brian_cazeneuve/08/05/nyc.half.marathon/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/brian_cazeneuve/08/05/nyc.half.marathon/index.html</guid><description>See his distinctive stride and you could read a chapter of Haile Gebrselassie's life, the telltale peek at the world's greatest living distance runner, blowing through Central Park, then Times Square and the streets of Gotham as the Ethiopian legend ran away with the New York Half Marathon on Sunday morning. </description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Lucy' Fossil Departs for U.S. Tour</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1650099,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1650099,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The 3.2 million-year-old skeleton known as Lucy was quietly flown out of Ethiopia overnight for a tour of the United States, a trip some consider too risky</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The model of perfection</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/06/07/kebede.bio/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/06/07/kebede.bio/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Born in 1978 and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Liya Kebede attended the French Lycee in Addis. It was here that she was talent-spotted by a French film director and began her rise to supermodel status. </description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Liya Kebede - Q&amp;amp;A</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/06/07/Kebede.qanda/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/06/07/Kebede.qanda/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Liya Kebede speaks to CNN about her experiences of seeing the pain and suffering of mothers and children on a recent trip to Ethiopia and how conditions are improving.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Group demands info on 'African Guantanamo' detainees</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/05/24/kenya.ethiopia.muslims.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/05/24/kenya.ethiopia.muslims.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In a case some rights campaigners have dubbed an "African Guantanamo," a British-based group called on Kenyan, Somali and Ethiopian authorities to come clean over the whereabouts and fates of some 66 Muslim detainees unaccounted for in Ethiopia.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 16:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Starbucks chairman sets the record straight</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/21/news/companies/starbucks/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/21/news/companies/starbucks/index.htm</guid><description>Coffee chain Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz told shareholders Wednesday that he was disappointed with the company's sluggish stock performance and that he wasn't embarrassed about what he wrote in the "leaked" memo.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>PROBLEM NO. 2: HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/05/8401350/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/05/8401350/index.htm</guid><description>THE BACKGROUND More than 850 million people live in a state of hunger. Malnutrition kills more people annually than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. The majority of the hungry live in the ... </description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fears grow for missing Ethiopia tourists</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/03/04/ethiopia.tourists/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/03/04/ethiopia.tourists/index.html</guid><description>The search is continuing for five British tourists and a number of Ethiopians feared kidnapped in a remote area of the country.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 11:12:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Starbucks vs. Ethiopia</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/05/8401343/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/05/8401343/index.htm</guid><description>To produce a pound of organic sun-dried coffee, farmers in the southern Ethiopian village of Fero spread six pounds of ripe, red coffee cherries onto pallets near their fields. They sun the fruit f... </description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:56:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Problem no. 3: Hunger and malnutrition</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/24/magazines/business2/Prob3_HungerMalnutrution.biz2/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/24/magazines/business2/Prob3_HungerMalnutrution.biz2/index.htm</guid><description>The background: More than 850 million people live in a state of hunger. Malnutrition kills more people annually than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. The majority of the hungry live in the developing world, especially in India and sub-Saharan Africa.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:41:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ethiopia 'seizes key Somali town'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/12/27/somalia.ethiopia/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/12/27/somalia.ethiopia/index.html</guid><description>Ethiopian troops have taken control of the major Somalian town of Jowhar after several hours of heavy fighting with Islamist fighters and their force of about 2,000 soldiers advanced toward Balad, about 20 miles northeast of Mogadishu, according to witnesses.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:36:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N. envoy seeks Security Council action for Somalia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/12/26/somalia.ethiopia/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/12/26/somalia.ethiopia/index.html</guid><description>The United Nations envoy to Somalia has warned of a "deteriorating situation" in the Horn of Africa nations and called for the U.N. Security Council to take steps to end the violence in the country.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The World at Risk</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/02/20/8369168/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/02/20/8369168/index.htm</guid><description>FEB. 3, 2006 A look at hot spots, economic fault lines, and events that might have an impact on global risk.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>On the trail of the celebrity activist</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/11/quest/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/11/quest/index.html</guid><description>(CNN) -- This month Richard's quest takes him on a journey to uncover the celebrity activist.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Live Aid 1985: A day of magic </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/01/liveaid.memories/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/01/liveaid.memories/index.html</guid><description>"The sun was shining ... so were the people, and so were the bands," U2's Bono said after coming off stage, one of the undoubted major stars of "The Global Jukebox," Live Aid 1985.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ethiopia rejects killings inquiry</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/06/10/ethiopia.arrests/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/06/10/ethiopia.arrests/index.html</guid><description>The Ethiopian government has rejected a call by human rights groups for an investigation into "police violence" during post-election unrest that left at least 27 people dead.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>At least 22 dead in Ethiopia clash</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/06/08/ethiopia.deaths/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/06/08/ethiopia.deaths/index.html</guid><description>The death toll from clashes between protesters and security forces in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa has risen to at least 22 in a third day of unrest following a disputed election.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2005 09:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israeli diplomat wounded in Ethiopia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/30/israel.diplomat/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/30/israel.diplomat/index.html</guid><description>Israel's Ambassador to Ethiopia Doron Grossman was found with a gunshot wound in his Addis Ababa hotel room Wednesday, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:37:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Stars line up for Band Aid III</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/22/uk.bandaid/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/22/uk.bandaid/index.html</guid><description>Noel Gallagher, Damon Albarn, Jamelia, Coldplay, The Darkness and Travis have been lined up to sing in a new version of Band Aid's original mega-hit "Do They Know it's Christmas?" British media reports say.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Altruistic marketing</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/11/25/66688/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/11/25/66688/index.htm</guid><description>The scene could become a cliche: superstar musicians performing for a good cause. First came Live Aid and Band Aid against hunger in Ethiopia, then Farm Aid against financial distress in the grain ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 1985 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>