WFP Ethiopia Country Brief, February 2021
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USD 1.05 m cash transferred made
USD 325 million (March - August 2021) net funding requirements
2.6 m people assisted
WFP assisted
2.6 million people, including drought and flood-affected people, internally displaced people (IDPs), refugees, and malnourished children and women in February.
In February, the Government requested WFP to mobilize food assistance to be distributed in Tigray as part as an emergency response and to augment secondary transport capacity for relief distributions.
Relief response
In Tigray, WFP started discussions with the Government’s National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC), the Food Cluster and the Interim Administration of Tigray Regional State to identify the districts where WFP could carry out relief food distributions.
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04/16/21
Addis Ababa – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) today received over 1,500 rolls of heavy-duty plastic sheeting from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) that will be used to provide temporary shelter relief to more than 80,000 people displaced by conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
IOM will immediately transport and distribute the supplies to people in need across Tigray, where conflict has forced an estimated 1 million people to flee their homes. Many are now sleeping outside or in crowded shelters. The donated shelter supplies include sleeping mats, blankets, and basic household items including kitchen sets with pots, pans, and cooking utensils.
In depth analysis: Three years of broken promises, anger compound Oromo IDPS displaced after violence ravaged Oromia-Somali regions. addisstandard 2021-03-16
Adama’s Ganda Hara camp from a distance, located in Bole sub-city and on the road to Addis Abeba
By Bileh Jelan @BilehJelan &
Addis Ababa, March 16/2021 – It never occurred to Abdi Suleiman, an ethnic Oromo who escaped his home in the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia at the start of conflicts in the border areas between Somali and Oromia regional states (2017 – 2018); that the conflict that started as minor border disputes between clansmen, would escalate or see the interference of the Somali Regional Special Forces under the presidency of Abdi Illey. The conflict resulted in the death of 734, the injury of 395, the disappearance of 39 individuals and 13 women falling victim to sexual assault at the hands of police on both sides of the border. (See Ethiopian Human Rights Council report).