Starvation Looms as Food Runs Out in Drought-hit Ethiopia

Drought has forced 7.8 million people across the whole of Ethiopia to rely on emergency food handouts to stay alive. BY AFP The Somali people of Ethiopia’s southeast have a name for the drought that has killed livestock, dried up wells and forced hundreds of thousands into camps: sima, which means “equalised”. It’s an appropriate […]

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U.S. Warns South Sudan Govt Against ‘Deliberate Starvation Tactics’

BY MICHELLE NICHOLS | REUTERS The United States warned South Sudan’s government on Thursday that preventing humanitarian aid workers from reaching parts of the war-torn state that are suffering famine could “amount to deliberate starvation tactics.” A civil war erupted in 2013 when President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy, Riek Machar, a […]

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Ethiopian Babies Starve, Regime Feeds Lobby Firm $150,000 Per Month

Millions of Ethiopians starve to death as the TPLF spends millions to keep itself alive By Prof. Al Mariam, The latest USAID’s Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS) report stated: “The 2017 Humanitarian Resources Document released by the Government of Ethiopia estimates 5.6 million people will require emergency food assistance through June 2017, with funding […]

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Ethiopia: Drought Continues to Threaten 9.7 million People

US$900 million needed for 2017 Ethiopia drought response while the global need reaches record $22.2 billion By UN OCHA, Drought exacerbated by El Niño, combined with extensive flooding, disease outbreaks and the disruption of basic public services, continue to have a negative impact on the lives and livelihoods of 9.7 million Ethiopians. Urgent funding gaps […]

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USAID Gives Ethiopia $246 Million in Food Assistance

By TesfaNews, The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has given Ethiopia with nearly $246 million in food and nutrition assistance since summer 2015. This was announced when the agency was providing an additional $97 million in food assistance to the country. Ethiopia is suffering its worst drought in 30 years. The UN Office for the […]

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