FAST FACTS In Ethiopia, International Medical Corps is operating 21 mobile health and nutrition teams (MHNTs), which have reached 678,130 internally displaced persons (IDPs) settled in more than 32 IDP sites in the Afar, Amhara and Tigray regions. In the past two weeks, International Medical Corps started providing emergency lifesaving health and nutrition services in […]
Day: October 21, 2021
Ethiopia – Northern Ethiopia Humanitarian Update Situation Report, 21 Oct 2021
HIGHLIGHTS Two airstrikes on Mekelle killing three children and injuring 10 people, according to health officials. Another airstrike carried on 20 October, injuring a number of people. Between 7-13 October, only about 52,000 people reached with food or 1 per cent of the targeted population in Tigray, in which half of them received only one […]
Women in leadership ‘must be the norm’, Security Council hears
We can no longer exclude half of humanity from international peace and security matters, the UN chief told the Security Council on Thursday, emphasizing the need to fully address the challenges and gaps that continue to prevent women having an equal say. Today, women’s leadership is a cause. Tomorrow, it must be the norm”, Secretary-General António […]
WHO announces plan for ‘profound transformation’ following sexual abuse allegations in DR Congo
The suffering of survivors of sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by World Health Organization staff during the tenth Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is going to be “the catalyst for a profound transformation” of WHO’s culture. The assurance came this Thursday from WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, while announcing a Management Response Plan to address the findings of an independent commission. “This plan outlines the changes we will make as an organisation […]