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The singer announced his donation via Instagram on Sunday morning and encouraged others to give, too.

The Weeknd Donates $1 Million to Relief Efforts in Ethiopia Ellise Shafer, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The Weeknd is donating $1 million to relief efforts in Ethiopia amid the ongoing conflict between the government in Addis Ababa and the Tigray region. The conflict has resulted in the deaths of thousands and the displacement of more than two million people, according to NPR. Last month, the New York Times obtained an internal U.S. government report that said Ethiopian officials are “leading a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing” in the Tigray region. More from Variety The singe...

The Weeknd donated $1 million to hunger relief efforts in Ethiopia amid the country's ongoing conflict that has resulted in thousands of deaths

When Disaster Hits Home for a Global Aid Organization Raj Shah, the head of the Rockefeller Foundation, spent a career working on disaster response in the developing world. The coronavirus pandemic has put his focus on the U.S. Raj ShahCredit...Greg Kahn for The New York Times Jan. 8, 2021 Not long before the pandemic hit, Raj Shah, the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, was in a rural town in India to inspect a new solar-powered micro-grid funded by the foundation. At dusk, the government’s unreliable power system faltered, plunging the town into darkness. Moments later, the lights c...

The Weeknd in numbers: how the singer dominated 2020 His album, After Hours, with its themes of loneliness, self-loathing and isolation, proved to be the quarantine R&B masterpiece we all needed this year. Social Sharing He's the most-streamed Canadian artist of the year, and 'Blinding Lights' is the biggest song worldwide Posted: Dec 15, 2020 9:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 15, 2020 The Weeknd was told to push back the release date of his fourth album, After Hours, due to the pandemic, but he insisted. The gamble paid off.(TheWeeknd.com)