CAIRO, Oct 25 (Reuters) -Djibouti’s foreign minister accused neighbouring Eritrea on Sunday of arming and training militias to carry out sabotage in the tiny Horn of Africa country, and of fomenting chaos in the region. “Eritrea is exporting chaos. Exporting chaos has become routine in Eritrea,” Mahmoud Ali Youssef told reporters in Cairo after talks with Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa. More on Djibouti says Eritrea arming, training militias

The Ethiopian government has asked the international community for emergency food aid for 6.2 million people.

The request came at a meeting of donors to discuss the impact of a prolonged drought affecting parts of East Africa.

The UN’s World Food Programme says $285m (£173m) will be needed in the next six months. Some aid officials say the numbers of hungry could rise.

Aid agency Oxfam has called for a new approach to tackling the risk of disaster in the country. More on Ethiopia asks for urgent food aid

The Ethiopian National Priorities Consultative Process (ENPCP), a network of rights based civil society organizations, is convinced that free and fair election is an important instrument for the prevention and resolution of conflicts, and the installation of a government that is accountable to the electorate. More on ENPCP Press Release on ‘Free and Fair Election Requires Substantive Negotiation!’

An Ethiopian agronomist who developed a drought- and weed-resistant form of sorghum, one of the world’s principals grains, is the winner of this year’s $250,000 World Food Prize.Gebisa Ejeta, now a professor of agronomy at Purdue University in West Layfayette, Ind., More on Ethiopian scientist wins World Food Prize for sorghum

Hunger is again stalking East Africa. The United Nations says 20 million people will need emergency food aid before the end of this year in six nations – Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Sudan. Poverty and drought are challenging the best efforts of the government and international aid agencies to save the lives of malnutrition victims.

Driving through Ethiopia’s countryside, it is hard to imagine a food shortage. More on Woyanne administration Again Struggles to Treat Malnutrition

The partisan National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) has refused to recognize the Oromo Federalist Congress. The Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC) is a coalition that was formed by the Oromo People’s Congress (OPC), led by Dr. Merera Gudina, and the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM), led by Mr. Bulcha Demeksa, in January 2009. Both OPC and OFDM are currently member parties of the newly formed national coalition party – the Forum for Democracy and Dialogue (FDD). More on Ethiopia: TPLF-Controlled Election Board Refuses to Recognize the New Oromo Federalist Congress

 Mother of All Troubles It is not only Mother Ethiopia that is in deep trouble today but also the millions of mothers in Ethiopia. Hanna Ingber Win, the World Editor of the Huffington Post, was “invited by the U.N. Population Fund to visit its maternal health programs in Ethiopia, which has one of the world’s worst health care systems.” More on Mothers of Ethiopia, Mother Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA — When Teddy Afro leaps onto the stage the crowd goes wild, clapping in the air and singing along with the man seen by many as the voice of Ethiopia’s conscience. More on Ethiopian rocker swaps prison cell for spotlight

WASHINGTON — One of the suspected ring leaders in the D.C. taxi bribe scandal asked an informant to destroy evidence and threatened to kill another informant, according to court documents. More on Taxi Bribe Suspect Accused of Threatening to Kill Informant