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The Weeknd Donates $1M In Food Aid To His Homeland Of Ethiopia
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Popular Singer s Impassioned Plea for Tigray
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The Weeknd is assisting in a crisis taking place in the East African country of Ethiopia.
The Grammy award winner revealed on his Instagram page over the weekend that he had partnered with the World Food Program U.S. to donate a massive $1 million to hunger relief efforts amid the ongoing conflict between the government in Addis Ababa and rebels in the Tigray region. The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, is the son of two Ethiopian immigrants, Makkonen and Samra Tesfaye.
“My heart breaks for my people of Ethiopia as innocent civilians ranging from small children to the elderly are being senselessly murdered and entire villages are being displaced out of fear and destruction,” the Toronto-born singer wrote in a lengthy post on Sunday April 4. “I will be donating $1 million to provide 2 million meals through the United Nations World Food Programme and encourage those who can to please give as well.”
WFP Tanzania Country Brief, February 2021
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USD 9 million six-month funding shortfall for refugee assistance
234,810 refugees and asylum seekers in camps supported with food assistance
Operational Updates
Support to refugee communities: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) met to discuss and validate the 2020 Joint Mission Assessment (JAM) report findings and recommendations. The final JAM report will be shared early March with MoHA for approval.
WFP distributed only 68 percent of the minimum required kilocalories to the refugees hosted in camps in Kigoma region because of the continuing funding shortages. Nutrition support to vulnerable populations, however, was maintained at 100 percent. WFP is advocating for additional funding to support the provision of full rations to the refugees. Voluntary repatriation for the month of February 2021 stood at 2,547.
Grammy award-winning artist The Weeknd is stepping up to help Ethiopians amid violence in the country.
The singer-songwriter, whose real name is Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, on Sunday said that he will donate $1 million to Ethiopian relief efforts through the UN World Food Programme.
Thousands of civilians are believed to have been killed, raped and abused during the course of Ethiopia s five-month-old conflict.
A recent CNN investigation found that men wearing Ethiopian army uniforms executed unarmed men in Tigray. A BBC-led investigation also published Thursday corroborated the same massacre near Mahibere Dego, a mountainous area of central Tigray.
On Friday, Ethiopia s government dismissed evidence of these claims.
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