Day: October 13, 2021

EDF launch new offensive against Tigrayan forces in Amhara   Getachew Reda, spokesperson for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), said on 11 October that the Ethiopian Defence Force (EDF), supported by militia, had launched an offensive against Tigrayan Defence Forces (TDF) forces in the Amhara region. This comes as the Sudanese military claimed on […]

Introduction   Why this update?   The annual Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) provides a consensus-based overview of the world’s food crises. It focuses on crises where the local capacities to respond are insufficient, prompting a request for the urgent mobilization of the international community, as well as countries/territories where there is ample evidence […]

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening.   The number of weekly reported deaths from COVID-19 continues to decline, and is now at the lowest level in almost a year.   But it’s still an unacceptably high level – almost 50,000 deaths a week, and the real number is certainly higher.   Deaths are declining […]

Today, Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman, U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, and I convened an urgent High-Level Ministerial on northern Ethiopia—where millions of civilians are currently experiencing one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. This High-Level Ministerial of G7 nations and other major donor countries to the humanitarian response included senior representatives […]

Child marriage is widely recognized as a violation of human rights and a hindrance to national development. In fact, evidence suggests that the practice of child marriage is closely associated with lower educational attainment, early pregnancies, intimate partner violence, maternal and child mortality, increased rates of sexually transmitted infections, intergenerational poverty, and the disempowerment of […]