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EthiopiaMSF has opened a new programme supporting primary and secondary healthcare in West and East Wollega, Oromia. The project is intended to improve access for communities affected by insecurity and gaps in essential services.
Ethiopiais estimated that 5.5 million people are facing acute food insecurity in Tigray and the neighbouring regions of Afar and Amhara, in Ethiopia, with 353,000 people in Catastrophic situation (IPC Phase 5), which is the highest number of people in this category since the 2011 Somalia famine). Furthermore, there are 2.1 mil
Ethiopia09 June 2021, Addis Ababa: As part of a broad-based initiative to address the plant protection needs of the Eastern Africa nations, a practical training programme on Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) was delivered to experts drawn from the National Plant Protection Organizations (NPPO) of Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, K
EthiopiaThe Early Warning Department of the National Disaster Risk Management Commission released the second issue of the National Flood Alert listing additional areas at risk of flooding and landslides, while several parts of the country continue to receive average to above average Belg/spring season rainfall since April. In
EthiopiaEritrean refugee children play in Ethiopia’s Hitsats refugee camp in the Tigray region in 2017. © REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has gained access to the Shimelba and Hitsats refugee camps in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region for the first time since November 2020, amid ongoing security concerns. During a joint mission to the area…
EthiopiaDTM staff are gathering data at a collective center hosting IDPs in Shire © IOM 2021 Addis Ababa – Over 131,000 people are displaced in 39 accessible locations in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and neighbouring Afar and Amhara according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) ’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) survey, the first official data…
EthiopiaThe World Health Organization Ethiopia country office is working with Somali Regional Health Bureau to contain the spread of dengue fever in the region. Close to160 confirmed cases have been recorded in Warder Woreda of Dolo Zone and 47 suspected cases in Dolo Ado Woreda of Liban Zone. Samples of the suspected cases from Dolo Ado have been sent to the…
EthiopiaIn southern Tigray, MSF teams are running mobile clinics and have restarted some services at health centers in the towns of Hiwane and Adi Keyih, alongside staff from the Ministry of Health. Between December 18 and January 3, MSF teams in Hiwane and Adi Keyih provided 1,498 medical consultations. In eastern Tigray, MSF is supporting the hospital in…
EthiopiaThe Adi-Harush refugee camp was established in March 2010 to accommodate Eritrean refugees seeking international protection. 2010 Camp opened in 2010 2,084 (incl. 200 mud-bricked) Permanent shelters built. 40% Of the population is under the age of 18 10,599 refugees Individually registered with ration cards Education Infrastructure available: 1 primary,…
EthiopiaAn estimated 92 000 hectares of forests and woodlands, as well as 2 billion metric tons of fertile soil are lost every year in Ethiopia due to improper land use, poor land management practices, population pressure, overgrazing, deforestation and climate change. Action Against Desertification works on the restoration of over 1 700 hectares of arid and…
EthiopiaFAO seeks funds for control operations to safeguard agricultural production and livelihoods 16 December 2020, Rome - A new generation of Desert Locust swarms is threatening agricultural and pastoral livelihoods and the food security of millions of people in the Horn of Africa and Yemen despite intense efforts to control the pest throughout 2020, the Food…
EthiopiaIn the analysis period of October to December 2020, about 8.6 million people are facing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above). The Meher analysis covers 17 administrative zones which were further subdivided into three to six fairly homogeneous woredas based on geographic proximity, livelihoods and coping, meteorological drought…
EthiopiaTens of thousands of refugees have fled the Tigray region of Ethiopia after conflict erupted in early November 2020. Our teams began triaging and treating war wounded people on 5 November in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is also providing emergency medical care to people who have fled across the…
EthiopiaThis is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning that a full-scale humanitarian crisis is unfolding as thousands of refugees flee ongoing fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region each day to…
EthiopiaRecovered INSECT INFESTATIONS record for Ethiopia.