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 […]
Month: October 2021
WHO Director-General’s opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 – 13 October 2021
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 […]
Chair’s Statement by USAID Administrator Samantha Power Following a High-Level Ministerial on Northern Ethiopia
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 […]
Towards Ending Child Marriage: Global trends and profiles of progress
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 […]
African Foreign Ministers Arriving in Addis Ababa to Attend AU’s Executive Council Meeting
African Ministers of Foreign Affairs are arriving in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa to partake in the 39th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union that is expected to be kicked off tomorrow. Accordingly, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Côted’Ivoire, Kandia, Kamissoko Camara, Gabon, Moubelet Boubeya and Burkina Faso, Alpha […]
PM Abiy, Higher Government Officials Visit Wheat Cluster Farming in Arsi Zone
A delegation led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed today visited wheat cluster farming activities in Arsi Zone, Hitesso Woreda of Oromia Regional State. The visit was accompanied by former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, Addis Ababa City Administration Mayor, Adanech Abebe, Oromia Regional State President, Shimeles Abdissa, Chief Administrators of regional States and other senior federal […]