CRS Applauds U.S. Decision to Resume Food Aid to Ethiopia
Aid to begin in December after six-month USAID investigation
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Aid to begin in December after six-month USAID investigation
Catholic church leaders in Ethiopia are welcoming a U.S.-funded food security program that will benefit millions of people suffering from the drought in the Horn of Africa country.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kim Pozniak Catholic Relief Services kim.pozniak@crs.org (571) 263-1193 Baltimore, MARYLAND, March 16, 2023 – On Wednesday, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) launched the Joint Emergency Operation Program (JEOP) in drought-stricken Ethiopia, which will provide $1.3 billion in humanitarian assistance over five years in support of more than 8.5
The 221-page report, “‘We Will Erase You From This Land’: Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray Zone,” documents how newly-appointed officials in Western Tigray and security forces from the neighbouring Amhara region, with the acquiescence and possible participation of Ethiopian federal forces, systematically expelled several hundred thousand Tigrayan civilians from their homes using threats, unlawful killings, sexual violence, mass arbitrary detention, pillage, forcible transfer, and the denial of humanitarian assistance. These widespread and syst...
Six months into the conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, the specter of widespread hunger and starvation looms, as continued military operations and violence stall aid delivery and threaten the approaching planting season, according to the United Nations and several other observers. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which last week…