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News: ICRC calls on all parties to protect healthcare, other vital services, highlights its efforts in Afar, Amhara, Tigray regions
Addis Abeba, September 07/2021 – Displaced people have few belongings and sleep in overcrowded shelters, schools or even out in the open, where they may be exposed to the rainy season and cold weather in high-altitude regions. Water, food, cash, fuel and power are highly scarce, and those who are …
News: Acting Humanitarian Coordinator for Ethiopia blames worsening humanitarian situation on ‘bureaucratic impediments’, warns against looming famine
Click here to download the full statement. Addis Abeba, September 03/2021 – In a statement issued yesterday, the Acting Humanitarian Coordinator for Ethiopia, Grant Leaity discussed the operational constraints affecting the humanitarian situation in northern Ethiopia and the de facto humanitarian blockade of Tigray Mr Leaity said, “With the inability …
News: US accuses Fed. Gov’t of stalling aid access into Tigray; OCHA says access hindered due to ‘bureaucratic and logistical’ reasons, calls for unfettered humanitarian access
By Bileh Jelan @BilehJelan Addis Abeba, September 02/2021 – In corresponding statements, the United States States department and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) complained of the worsening humanitarian situation in Tigray, blamed the delay in delivery of assistance on the Federal government and called …
