(ENA) Ethiopian and Russian agreed to enhance cooperation in the field of intelligence and security as well as other multifaceted areas. This was disclosed during the meeting held today between Director of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) of Ethiopia, Temesgen Tiruneh and Russian Ambassador to Ethiopia Yevgeny Terekhin. The two officials have exchanged […]
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Desert locust upsurge: Progress report on the response in the Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen | January–April 2021
The fight against desert locust in the Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen has been raging for sixteen months – since January 2020. Governments, FAO and partners are responding to the worst upsurge in seventy years. An extraordinarily effective system has been put in place, from forecasting to responding, and from short-term coordinating to preparing […]
Djibouti – Presence of Blocked Migrants (As of June 3, 2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic and the prevention measures that have been put in place by the various governments in the region continue to have an impact on vulnerable populations, including on migrants transiting through Djibouti. Although the borders between Ethiopia and Djibouti have been reopened since July 2020, some migrants transiting through Djibouti leaving or returning from […]
UNICEF ESARO: COVID-19 and its impacts – Social listening report on online conversations in Eastern and Southern Africa, May 2021
OVERVIEW This monthly report provides key highlights of the digital conversations on COVID-19 and its impacts in Eastern and Southern Africa. The report builds on different categories of online signals including search trends, social media content (posts, comments) and digital news articles. Social media and digital news platforms monitored include digital news outlets, Facebook, Twitter, […]
Actor and Service Mapping in Dadaab Refugee Camps, 3W Matrix, February 2021
Project Background Kenya is now the second biggest refugee-hosting country in Africa after Ethiopia. The majority of the nearly half a million refugees in Kenya reside in either Dadaab (44%) or Kakuma (40%) camps in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs), with the remaining 16% living in Nairobi and other urban areas of Nairobi. Dadaab […]
UNHCR Sudan Mixed Movements Update (Eritrean and Ethiopian), January – March 2021
Introduction Sudan is a country of origin, destination and transit on the migratory route from the Horn of Africa to Europe (mainly through the Central Mediterranean route) and other destinations. An estimated 50 per cent of refugees arriving in Shagarab move out of the camps within two months of their arrival. a trend that remains […]