During the first half of 2021, humanitarian access in Ethiopia became more complex due to insecurity related to the conflict in Tigray as well as the continuation of other situations of violence, including security operations against Unidentified Armed Groups (UAGs) in Oromia and Benishangul Gumuz regions (BGR), and localized inter-communal violence in Amhara, Afar, Somali […]
Day: August 9, 2021
Ethiopia Information Alert: Amhara – Vigil Insight Report 6: 8 August 2021
SUMMARY The Tigray Defense Forces (TDF) captured the UNESCO World Heritage Site town of Lalibela (a highly revered Ethiopian Christian icon) in Amhara on 5 August and rejected calls to leave the Amhara and Afar regions. In response, the Ethiopian government warned that it could “deploy the entire defensive capability of the state” if the […]
Ethiopia: Regional CCCM Dashboard – Tigray (as of July 2021)
General Update CCCM actors are currently active in 89 displacement sitesthroughout Tigray Region –reaching over 460,000 IDPs Current operational humanitarian partners include: ANE, HOP, IOM, OSSHD, and UNHCR, with additional local partners in the process of joining the cluster. Household IDPs intention surveydata collection has been completed in Mekelle, Shire, Adigrat, Axum, Adwa, Sheraro and Abi […]
Analysis of DRR inclusion in national climate change commitments
Benin, Ethiopia, Fiji, Guyana, Kiribati, Malawi, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Uganda The purpose of this study was to review selected National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)/Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and contributing documents to better understand how disaster risk management is approached in climate change documents, and if systemic risk issues where impacts cascade […]
Ethiopia – Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #3 Fiscal Year (FY) 2021
SITUATION AT A GLANCE 115 MILLION: Estimated Population of Ethiopia UN – December 2020 23.8 MILLION: Estimated People in Need of Humanitarian Assistance in Ethiopia UN – February 2021 785,322: Number of Refugees in Ethiopia UNHCR – June 2021 12.9 MILLION: Estimated People In Need of Emergency Food Assistance IPC – January–June 2021 7.1 MILLION: Estimated […]
The Ministry of Trade and Industry provided food assistance to the needy
The Ministry of Education has provided food assistance to 13 needy households in Piazza Workers’ Neighborhood. The food items, valued at 13,665 birr, are 130 kilograms of flour, 47 liters of oil, 47 kilograms of corn, 38 kilograms of corn, 38 kilograms of corn flour and 17 liters of soap. Eshete Asfaw, State Minister of […]