Today, Administrator Samantha Power announced that the United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing more than $181 million to deliver life-saving food, agricultural supplies, safe drinking water, shelter, health care, and essential services to protect the most vulnerable in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where a worsening humanitarian catastrophe threatens millions of […]
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UN agencies concerned by looming famine in northern Ethiopia, call for urgent life-saving action to avert it
Over 350 000 people already face catastrophic conditions in Tigray 10 June 2021, Rome – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF call for urgent action to address the dramatic acute food insecurity in northern Ethiopia. The three agencies are particularly concerned about the […]
Ethiopia – Tigray Region Humanitarian Update Situation Report, 10 June 2021
HIGHLIGHTS More than 3.3 million people of the targeted 5.2 million reached with food under the 2021 response plan since late March, reaching additional 567,000 people. About 482,000 people of the targeted 3 million reached with emergency shelter and non-food items to date, reaching more than 50,000 additional people. Denial of access, looting and confiscation […]
FAO and CABI act in concert to intensify pest control in Eastern Africa
09 June 2021, Addis Ababa: As part of a broad-based initiative to address the plant protection needs of the Eastern Africa nations, a practical training programme on Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) was delivered to experts drawn from the National Plant Protection Organizations (NPPO) of Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda. […]
EU-US 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 […]
Robbed, raped, beaten: safe migration routes urgently needed between Colombia and Panama
Migrants crossing from northwest Colombia into Panama through the Darién forest are being robbed, assaulted, raped, even killed. MSF teams are providing medical and mental health care to people in Panama who have made it through forest. MSF calls on Panama and Colombia to establish safe migration routes between the two countries to ensure people’s […]