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Internal Displacement
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News: Displaced for more than seven years, IDPs in Afar region seek meaningful support
Addis Abeba, February 18/2020 – Some 400 people remain displaced in the outskirts of Manda town, Elidaar woreda, zone 1, Afar region for more than 7 years now. They fled Akule, their areas of origin, along the Eritrean border mainly due to a recurrent drought but also to some extent …
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News: Joint appeal seeks $1 bn to address humanitarian needs of 7 m Ethiopians in 2020
Addis Abeba, 29 January 2020: The 2020 Ethiopia Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) was officially released yesterday, laying out prioritized multi-sector humanitarian needs in Ethiopia for the year 2020. The annual joint Government and humanitarian partners’ document targets 7 million people with emergency food and non-food assistance and is estimated to cost US$1 …
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News: Human Rights Commission chief says non-state actors worsening human rights crisis in Ethiopia
Addis Standard staffs Addis Abeba, January 23/2020 – Daniel Bekele, (PhD), Chief Commissioner, Ethiopia Human Rights Commission (EHRC), told Ethiopian lawmakers today that human rights situation in Ethiopia is exacerbated due mainly to non-state actors. Daniel said this when presenting his office’s six months performance report of the 2019-2020 fiscal …