The death toll from flooding in southern Ethiopia climbed to 194 today, state television reported, as rescuers battled to save thousands of people still marooned by high water.

Fresh flooding has killed 20 people in southern Ethiopia, state television reported today, a week after at least 256 people died in the East following torrential rains.

REMAINS of at least nine ape-like creatures, which some experts believe to be the closest thing known to the “missing link”, have been unearthed in Africa.

Trocaire are calling for food aid to be sent to Ethiopia, saying that intervention now will help to avoid a repeat of the massive famine that hit the country in 1984.

Six university students armed with hand grenades and pistols who seized an Ethiopian plane with at least 50 passengers and diverted it to Khartoum have released all their hostages and surrendered, officials said today.