Humanitarian convoys carrying desperately needed food aid entered Tigray for the first time since a ceasefire agreement was signed two-week ago. Convoys carrying desperately needed food aid have entered Tigray, as humanitarian groups gained access to the war-torn northern Ethiopian region for the first time since a ceasefire agreement was signed two weeks ago. The […]
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UN-OCHA: 700,000 people (Kenya), 1.6 million people (Somalia), 6.1 million people (South Sudan), 7.9 million people (Ethiopia) and 6.2 million people (Sudan) are food insecure. BY XINHUA The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) revealed on Wednesday that 22.4 million people in the Horn of Africa region need food aid.
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The government and people of South Sudan should count Eritrea as a friend BY ACHAN TONNY | HOT IN JUBA The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management has revealed that the government of Eritrea will donate 40,000 tons humanitarian food aid to South Sudan. This comes after a delegation from the ministry and the […]
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12.5 million people are now in need of food assistance. The Cholera outbreak which mainly affected Somali region is currently spreading to Northern Ethiopia. BY RELIEF WEB 12.5 million people are now in need of food assistance. The food insecurity and malnutrition situation in the drought affected areas continues to deteriorate, in particular in Somali […]
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Severe drought so far killed two million livestock in Ethiopia : FAO BY REUTERS Livestock are dying in parts of Ethiopia that are overwhelmingly reliant on their milk as deepening drought pushes up the number of districts in need of life-saving aid by 19 percent, according to a report released on Thursday. At least 8.5 […]
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BY ESAT NEWS The Trump administration announced more than $169 million in humanitarian assistance to Ethiopia and Kenya to support people affected by prolonged severe drought. Ethiopian regime officials have been saying that they would use available local resources and funds meant for development projects if the international community did not step in to help […]
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Dead camels rot on the outskirts of informal settlements in Ethiopia’s rain-starved Somali region as their owners, once proudly self-sufficient pastoralists, turn to government aid to stay alive. BY JAMES JEFFREY | IRIN NEWS Ethiopia is facing a drought so terrible that nomadic herders, the hardiest of survivors, have been pushed to the brink. The […]
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The Menschen für Menschen charity has said 5.7 million Ethiopians could die of a lack of food. Part of the problem is that other countries are faring even worse and thus getting most of the publicity. BY DEUTSCHE WELLE Some 6 percent of Ethiopia’s population of 98 million suffers from food shortages resulting from a […]
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