Ethiopia – Tigray Region Humanitarian Update Situation Report #8 - April 14, 2021
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• In Ethiopia, International Medical Corps has set up a mobile health and nutrition clinic in Shire that has provided services to 784 displaced Tigrayans in this area.
• International Medical Corps continues to work in Humera,
Wolkayit and Tsegede woredas, where we have reached 36,000 people with outpatient consultations and 56,000 with hygiene promotion.
• In Sudan, International Medical Corps has distributed personal protective equipment to healthcare facilities, and trained 25 staff in infection prevention and control.
In Ethiopia, the conflict between the Ethiopian National Defence Force and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front has been ongoing since the beginning of Novermber 2020. The violence continues to drive the mass displacement of people internally across the Tigray region, as well as causing 62,000 civilians to flee into neighbouring regions in Sudan, most
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NAIROBI, April 14 (Reuters) - Eritrean soldiers opened fire in an Ethiopian town on Monday, killing at least nine civilians and wounding more than a dozen others, a local government official told Reuters.
Berhane Gebretsadik, an administrator for Ethiopia’s federally appointed interim Tigray government, said on Wednesday that Ethiopian National Defence forces had intervened to repel the attack in the town of Adwa.
“It was the Eritrean soldiers who killed innocent people,” he said. “If it wasn’t for the National Defence who intervened and saved them (residents), they would have continued killing more people,” he said, referring to Ethiopia’s national army.
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US doubles aid to Tigray
The US said large-scale assistance is urgently needed in order to prevent the humanitarian situation in Tigray from worsening. The area has seen a violent conflict for several months.
The Tigray conflict has forced millions from their homes
The United States said Thursday that it would provide another $152 million (€128 million) to the Tigray region of Ethiopia in the wake of ongoing fighting and potential famine.
The aid will come through the US Agency for International Development (USAID). It will double the amount of funding that the US provides to the Tigray region in the East African nation. The organization said the funds will address life-threatening hunger and acute malnutrition, as well as provide safe drinking water, urgently needed medical and health support, and shelter for some of the estimated one million people who have fled their homes.