Ouagadougou: Retired Colonel-Major Oumarou Sawadogo will present his candidacy for the election of the president of the Burkinabè Football Federation (FBF) on behalf of the Sports Union of the Armed Forces (USFA), announced the military club in a pres…
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Atrocities, War Expand Beyond Ethiopia’s Tigray
ISTANBUL — What began as a conflict between the Ethiopian Federal government and a local military in late 2020, exploded into a civil war in 2021 that has forced two million people to flee their homes and left hundreds of thousands of people in famine-like conditions. The war continues expanding, with displacements, ethnic killings and mass […]
Grave violations surge for children in conflict
Armed conflict, inter-communal violence and insecurity continued to take a devastating toll on thousands of children throughout 2021, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), warned on Friday. From Afghanistan to Yemen, and Syria to northern Ethiopia, UNICEF denounced grave violations against youngsters in both protracted and new conflicts. ‘Dreadful disregard’ Last week, four children were reportedly among the victims of an attack that killed at least 35 people – including two Save the Children staff – in […]
UNHCR Ethiopia: Operational Update (December 2021)
Protection Documentation of Eritrean refugees: In Addis Ababa, UNHCR, in collaboration with the Refugees and Returnees Service (RRS) continues to locate, through biometric verification, registered refugees who had been displaced from the former Shimelba and Hitsats camps and other locations in the Tigray region. Between 4 August and 25 November, a total of 14,266 families […]
IOM Northern Ethiopia response: 06 – 19 December 2021
OM’s multi-sectoral response in northern Ethiopia was initiated in November 2020, with quick actions taken to support conflict-affected populations in collective displacement sites and host communities. Since then, IOM has significantly scaled up its response in Tigray, Amhara, and Afar regions and provided over 1.1 million instances of multi-sectoral assistance to people in need in […]
Flow Monitoring Dashboard – Ethiopia (November 2021)
OVERVIEW In November 2021, a total of 16,619 movements were observed across five of Ethiopia’s flow monitoring points (FMPs). It should be noted that data collection at Humera FMP in Tigray region did not take place due to security and access constraints, thus affecting the total number of movements for the month. This represents a […]