Authorities say more than 4.5 million people there need emergency food. BY BBC NEWS “Hundreds of thousands might starve to death” in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, according to a government official quoted in a leaked copy of notes taken at a meeting of humanitarian workers. The government-run Tigray Emergency Coordination Center (ECC) is assessing needs following […]
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A million Somali children have starved to death in the past 24 months and this crime goes unnoticed by the international media? BY THOMAS C MOUNTAIN According to just released information sourced from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the FSNAU between October 2015 and April 2016, a period of only six months, […]
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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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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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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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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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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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By Ruadhán Mac Cormaic | for The Irish Times, Ethiopia is facing its worst drought in decades, with more than eight million people already in need of food assistance as a result of weather conditions that are set to worsen, the aid agency Goal has warned. The failure of two consecutive rainy seasons, including the […]
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