Introduction: Food-borne disease is a major health problem especially in low-income countries like Ethiopia. This study aimed to assess the knowledge and practice of food handlers at student cafeteria of Kotebe Metropolitan University. Methods: A cross-sectional study design was conducted among 68 food handlers in student cafeteria of Kotebe Metropolitan University from May 30, 2018 to October 30, 2019. A structured questionnaire was used via face-to-face interviews to assess food handler’s knowledge of food safety and practices food safety. Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences window version 20 and presented in the form of frequency tables, percentages, and graphs. The association was tested using Pearson’s chi-square, where P-value (<.05) was considered statistically significant. Results: The result showed that food handlers had good knowledge of food safety and good practice of food safety measured by the passing score of 40 (57.94%) and 48 (70.6%), respectively. Almost all food handlers were aware of the crucial role of knowledge of food safety and food safety practices in the student cafeteria. Accordingly, results of this work revealed that 67 (98.5%), 60 (88.2%), 65 (95.6%), and 56 (82.4%) of the subjects had food safety knowledge, always wash vegetables and fruits, had hand washing facilities with a supply of hot water, soap, and hand drying towel, had a hair mask or cloth during food preparation, and wore safety cloth during food preparation, respectively. Conclusion: The findings revealed significant relationship between food safety practices of food handlers and level of education, specifically regarding access to hand washing facilities, hand washing after a break and in the toilet, changing gloves between raw and ready-to-eat food, and drying and cleaning hands before handling food ( P < .05). Additionally, Kotebe Metropolitan University should design food handling and safety guidelines and offer specific training for food handling workers.

Covid-19 affects most of higher education group of peoples; students at higher institutions must be equipped with knowledge, perception, and practice on anticipation measures and ways of transmission. The point of this investigation is to determine the level of knowledge, perception, and practices of students toward COVID-19 at selected Ethiopian higher education institutions. A cross-sectional web survey was conducted from August 10, 2020, to August 30, 2020. The instrument consisted of 8 items on Demographic characteristics, 15 items on knowledge, 4 items on perception, 15 items on practices, and 3 items information usages, changed from a formerly published survey on COVID-19. Descriptive statistics, t-tests, and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were conducted. The result revealed that from the total 342 participants, the majority of students (59.6%) were females, and most of them are young aged below 30 (84.2%). Similarly, most of them were living in Addis Ababa city government 298 (87.1%) and had a degree level of education 244 (71.3%). Most members were likewise playing it safe, for example, staying away from swarms 158 (46.2%) and 83.6% of respondents approached water to wash. In any case, just 37.4% of the respondents have access to infrastructures such as the internet, and 78.4 of the respondent’s approach to laptop or smart-phone. Knowledge, perception, and practice of students play a great role in understanding student’s readiness towards the pandemic of Covid-19. It is also crucial to take actions that help to fight the pandemic. Most of the respondents have access to water for washing, while the majority of them have no sufficient infrastructure for online learning, including the internet, access to laptop, and/or smart-phone during Covid-19. Besides, television and radio, and social media are the most frequently used sources to obtain information about the pandemic.

Wetland was substantially decreased by anthropogenic activities worldwide, which needs argent conservation action. The present study aimed to analyze the effects of land use land cover change on wetland dynamics from 1992 to 2022 in Jimma City, Southwestern Ethiopia. Landsat TM of 1992, ETM+ of 2000, ETM+ of 2009 and OLI/TIRS of 2022 were used. ArcGIS 10.3 and ERDAS Imagine 2015 were used in the study. Landsat images were classified by using supervised classification with maximum likelihood algorithm. The results revealed that grassland, wetland and vegetation land cover classes were declined by 2,304.9 ha, 1410.2 ha and 820.5 ha, respectively whereas, farm land, settlement and bare land were increased by 2,199 ha, 2,111 ha and 225.4 ha, respectively from 1992 to 2022. Results show that the normalized difference water index (NDWI) has positive and negative strong relationship with normailized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and normalized difference built up index (NDBI) with the Coefficent determination (R2) of 0.96 and 0.98, respectively. Due to rapid urbanization and declining of vegetation cover in the study area, about 98% of wetland land cover in the study area lost over the past decades. The governmental and non-governmental organization should give special attention to wetland restoration and management in the study area.