Ethiopia-Tigray: Belgium’s contribution through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA)

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Belgium support the timely delivery of agricultural inputs in the Tigray region Northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region continues to face a precarious humanitarian situation. Ongoing conflict, recurring environmental shocks and the residual impacts of a desert locust upsurge and the COVID-19 pandemic have led to […]

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Ethiopia Peace Observatory Weekly: 17 – 23 September 2022

By the Numbers: Ethiopia, 2 April 2018-23 September 2022 Total number of organized violence events: 3,380 Total number of reported fatalities from organized violence: 19,518 Total number of reported fatalities from civilian targeting: 8,475 By the Numbers: Ethiopia, 17-23 September 2022 Total number of organized violence events: 29 Total number of reported fatalities from organized […]

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Flash update #2 – UNHCR Northern Ethiopia Emergency Situation, 15 September 2022

ETHIOPIA Recent developments The security situation in northern Ethiopia is becoming more complex following the resumption of hostilities on 24 August between the Ethiopia National Defence Forces (ENDF) forces and Tigrayan Forces (TF). Intensive clashes have since continued at the towns along the borders between the Tigray region and the Amhara and Afar regions. Three […]

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Situational Analysis of Antipersonnel Mine and Explosive Remnants of War Contamination in the Afar and Amhara Regions of Ethiopia: 2020-2022, September 2022

Executive Summary The northern Ethiopia conflict has affected people living across the region, displacing millions, and leaving behind UXO and other ERW. Since November 2020, the ERW killed 185 people in the Afar and 267 in the Amhara region, mostly children. The purpose of this report is to determine the scope of contamination in the […]

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AAU Holds the 21st International Conference of Ethiopian Studies

Addis Ababa University (AAU) held the 21st International Conference of Ethiopian Studies with the theme of “Persistence and Resilience in Ethiopian Studies: Global Context and Domestic Developments” at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Ras Mekonnen Hall, on September 28, 2022. Sahle Work Zewde, President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, in the occasion said that AAU […]

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