The Ethiopian government has suspended the activities of three foreign humanitarian organisations which had been working in the Tigray region. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, asked Mukesh Kapila, a specialist in humanitarian affairs, to provide insights into the challenges humanitarian agencies face and what can be done to better support them. What are the main political challenges […]
Day: August 10, 2021
Access restored to Tigray camps sheltering Eritrean refugees
UN refugee agency (UNHCR) spokesperson, Boris Cheshirkov, told journalists in Geneva that emergency aid had been delivered to the camps’ 23,000 residents, who have been without assistance since 13 July. But he warned that there is only limited access to Mai Aini and Adi Harush camps in southern Tigray, where healthcare is unavailable and clean drinking water […]
1st IGAD Scientific Virtual Conference On Cross Border Tuberculosis (TB)
Care in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, challenges and opportunities Conference Dates: October 25th -28th, 2021 Deadline for submissions: September 10th, 2021, at 12.00am Introduction Cross-border population movement is a major social determinant of health and disease, including TB, multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) in the IGAD region. TB and TB/HIV […]
Ethiopia-Kenya Cross Border Meeting On Livestock Trade Meeting
4-5th August, 2021 (Moyale,Ethiopie): Cross-border livestock trade in the IGAD region has been going on amongst communities especially along the borders of Kenya – Uganda and Kenya – Ethiopia, where both formal and informal trade has been recorded highly. A study commissioned by RPLRP project showed that informal trade in live animals and hides and skins […]
ETHIOPIA URGES CITIZENS TO JOIN FIGHT AGAINST TIGRAYAN FORCES
NNA – Ethiopia’s office of the prime minister said on Tuesday that “all capable Ethiopians” should join the fight against Tigrayan forces. The statement came roughly six weeks after the government declared a unilateral ceasefire. It was not immediately possible to contact the spokesperson for the Tigrayan forces.—Reuters Source: National News Agency
Ethiopia: Troops and militia rape, abduct women and girls in Tigray conflict – new report
Forces aligned to the Ethiopian government subjected hundreds of women and girls to sexual violence Rape and sexual slavery constitute war crimes, and may amount to crimes against humanity Women and girls in Tigray were targeted for rape and other sexual violence by fighting forces aligned to the Ethiopian government, Amnesty International said today in […]