The recurrent floods, drought, intercommunal conflict and desert locusts in Somali region of Ethiopia have led to a large magnitude of displacement across the region. The 2015-2016 droughts led to the loss of livelihood sources of the internally displaced persons that currently reside in Hariso site. The site now fully depends on the host community […]
Month: September 2021
Ethiopia – Northern Ethiopia Humanitarian Update Situation Report, 23 Sept 2021
HIGHLIGHTS The remaining WFP fuel tanker in Mekelle, which other agencies had been relying on, was depleted. Sixty-two trucks of humanitarian supplies arrived in Tigray via Afar, the first convoy to arrive since 7 September. According to a recent survey, 89 per cent of surveyed internally displaced households in Tigray prefer to return to their […]
The United States Donates Nearly One Million Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccines to Ethiopia
The United States presented 453,600 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 single-shot vaccine today to the people of Ethiopia and announced the donation of an additional 504,000 doses scheduled to arrive in Addis Ababa today. U.S. Ambassador Geeta Pasi presented the vaccines to State Minister of Health, Seharela Abdullahi, in a handover event at […]
House of Commons International Development Committee: Aid cuts for ‘priority’ African region “outrageous and hypocritical”
New official figures show that British aid to several conflict-hit East African countries is being slashed by a half or more despite the Foreign Office describing the region as having “clear national strategic interest” for the UK. The cuts affect countries including Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia and South Sudan. As well as conflict, the countries […]
Three ways WFP is helping to revitalize food systems in Eastern Africa: The World Food Programme lives and breathes food systems across its work in Eastern Africa
The world’s food systems are deeply flawed. These flaws affect us all, but most of all they affect the over 811 million people that go to bed hungry each night. The very existence of millions of hungry people is a clear sign that our food systems are not working well enough. Twenty percent of the […]
Call to action: Prevent gender-based violence in humanitarian emergencies
Top UN officials met in the margins of the 76th General Assembly on Thursday, with a strong call to action to stamp out gender-based violence (GBV), amid a rise in forced displacement and other humanitarian emergencies around the globe. GBV includes acts that inflict physical, sexual or mental harm – or other forms of suffering, […]