Parts of Africa received an increase in rainfall but remains abnormally dry in the east and west Africa Weather Hazards Desert locust swarms and hopper bands have begun to appear in parts of East Africa. Below-average rainfall in Kenya and Southern Somalia has lead to abnormal dryness. Persistant dryness due to no rainfall has caused […]
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They Lost Everything: Recovering from Strongest Storm Ever Recorded in the Horn of Africa
More than 60,000 people, many of them internally displaced and refugees, were affected when Cyclone Gati made landfall in the northeastern part of Somalia in November 2020 following two days of heavy rains. The tropical cyclone, equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane, was the strongest storm ever recorded in the northern Indian Ocean and wreaked […]
National Conference on GERD, Int’l Water Laws Kicks off in Gondar
(ENA)The 9th National Higher Education Institutions Conference that discusses on the international water laws with respect to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has kicked off today in Gondar University, Amhara Regional State. The conference in its two days deliberation will discuss on seven study papers prepared on international water laws with respects to the […]
WFP Executive Director: Immediate access for lifesaving food deliveries in Tigray is critical
The United Nations World Food Programme has swiftly mounted an emergency food assistance operation deploying more than 180 staff and increasing food distributions to reach 1.4 million people, yet that is barely half of the number we should be reaching. Other agencies are also struggling to reach many of the rest of Tigray’s hungry. […]
EU-U.S Joint statement on the humanitarian emergency in Tigray
Seven months into the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, human rights atrocities and the full-blown humanitarian crisis are alarming, currently pushing 400,000 innocent people to the brink of famine and loss of life. This must be addressed immediately. We do well to remember the 1980s famine in Ethiopia, which led to an estimated one million […]
Atrocity Alert No. 256: Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Justice for Past Atrocities
Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes. CATASTROPHIC FAMINE ‘IMMINENT’ IN TIGRAY, ETHIOPIA The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, warned on Friday, 4 June, that famine is […]