HIGHLIGHTS The humanitarian operating environment has abruptly changed in Tigray Region following the declaration of an ‘immediate unilateral humanitarian’ ceasefire by the Ethiopian Government on 28 June. The humanitarian access within most of Tigray has significantly improved, while the flow of humanitarian supplies into the region remains constrained (but not impossible), with strict security checks […]
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Key Outcomes at the 47th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
At the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), June 21 – July 14, the United States pushed forward on priority issues as an observer state while actively pursuing election to the Council for the 2022-2024 term. We continued to model the integrity we intend to bring to Council leadership, recognizing that we are most […]
MEA ANNOUNCES LIST OF DESIGNATED HOTELS IN LEBANON FOR PASSENGERS ARRIVING FROM 11 COUNTRIES
NNA – Middle East Airlines- Air Liban announces that all Passengers arriving from UK, Brazil ,United Arab Emirates, India, Malawi, Ethiopia, Zambia, Liberia, Kenya, Gambia and Sierra Leone ( not transiting through these countries) to Lebanon must have hotel booking at their own expenses, for 4 days / 3nights in one of the following hotels. Passengers […]
Migration Response Centres (MRCs) East and Horn of Africa (1 January – 30 June 2021)
REGIONAL OVERVIEW: JUNE 2021 A total of 885 migrants were registered at MRCs across the region in June, a 24% increase compared to May. This brings the total registrations in 2021 to 4,345 migrants. The largest number of migrants were registered in Obock (253), followed by Semera (213), Bossaso (152), Hargeisa (113), Moyale (59), Togochale […]
‘Survival Struggle’: Ethnic Standoff Drives New Phase of Tigray War
Asfaw Abera fled his homeland in northwestern Ethiopia three decades ago, stealing away on foot into Sudan as soldiers and ethnic Tigrayan rebels exchanged fire nearby. During his long stretch in exile, Asfaw, an ethnic Amhara, scrubbed toilets in Khartoum office buildings while dreaming night and day of going back. Last month, he finally got […]
Evidence Reveals Terrorist TPLF Recruiting, Deploying Children in War
(ENA) Evidences that depict the deployment of children in war by the terrorist TPLF are being revealed, according to media reports.It is indicated that the TPLF clique has now been making futile attempts to reverse the defeat that it encountered during…