ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia ¨C A new implementation research study led by Addis Ababa University (AAU), in collaboration with Ethiopia¡¯s Federal Ministry of Health (MOH) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), finds that treating Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) can be effectively integrated into Ethiopia¡¯s Health Extension Program - bringing essential nutrition services closer to children and families.
GODE, Ethiopia - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), the Government of Ethiopia, the German embassy, and KfW Development Bank, today, inaugurated a solar-powered irrigation scheme in Gode, Somali Region - an investment designed to boost year-round food production and help drought-prone communities better withstand climate shocks.
ADDIS ABABA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a contribution of USD5.5 million from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) to help prevent malnutrition among pregnant and breastfeeding women and young children in Ethiopia by improving access to nutritious foods, strengthening local food systems, and building community resilience.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ¡ª The Government of Ethiopia¡¯s Refugees and Returnees Service (RRS), UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today that the refugee response in Ethiopia is on the verge of collapse. Without an immediate injection of funds, essential life-saving services¡ªincluding food, water, and healthcare¡ªfor over 1.1 million refugees will cease within weeks.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ warned today that refugees in Ethiopia are at risk of rising hunger as critical funding shortages force cuts to food rations.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia ¨C Hunger and malnutrition are on the rise in Ethiopia as ongoing conflict, regional instability, displacement, drought and economic shocks, leave millions without sufficient nutritious food, the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today. The organization¡¯s life-saving response has been severely hampered by critical funding shortfalls as 3.6 million of the most vulnerable are at imminent risk of losing food assistance, including malnutrition treatment for 650,000 women and children.
YOKOHAMA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a timely contribution of US$58 million from the Government of Japan. This contribution will enable Â鶹ÊÓƵ to support vulnerable populations affected by conflict, climate change, and economic crisis in 28 countries across Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
WASHINGTON, DC ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes four awards totaling US $110 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support critical school meals programmes across Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Laos, and Rwanda. The funding will benefit nearly half a million children and their communities in more than 1,600 pre-primary and primary schools across the four countries.
ADDIS ABABA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has activated more robust delivery mechanisms to its operations in Ethiopia since late 2023, a significant step in assuring the delivery of critical food assistance to the hungriest populations affected by drought, flooding, and conflict. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is now working at pace to deliver food assistance to up to 3 million in Ethiopia in the coming weeks.
NAIROBI ¨C Devastating floods threaten to worsen food insecurity across eastern Africa as heavy rains lash a region that less than a year ago was in the grips of drought, warns the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is activating its revamped approach to operations in Ethiopia, a major step which will start to reach 3.2 million people with food assistance for the first time since June 2023. Â鶹ÊÓƵ food aid was suspended nationwide following reports of large-scale diversions earlier this year.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has begun rolling out food distributions to nearly 900,000 refugees in Ethiopia, following a full revamp of the safeguards and controls in its refugee operations. Families living in refugee camps across five regions, including new arrivals who have fled from Sudan, are receiving food parcels for the first time since Â鶹ÊÓƵ paused food distributions in June 2023, following reports of large-scale diversions.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is accelerating efforts to roll out enhanced safeguards and controls that will ensure humanitarian food assistance reaches targeted, vulnerable people across Ethiopia. This follows a joint statement by Ethiopia¡¯s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and USAID announcing their commitment to addressing deeply concerning revelations of food aid diversion.
NAIROBI ¨C Millions of people in the Horn of Africa are trapped in a hunger emergency as the region lurches from crisis to crisis: the longest drought in recorded history has given way to rains and flash flooding, the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today. Food and energy prices remain stubbornly high and the impact of the conflict in Sudan reverberates around the region.
ROME ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is rolling out comprehensive, systemic measures to prevent further misuse of life-saving aid in response to the discovery of widespread diversion of humanitarian food assistance in Ethiopia last month. Â鶹ÊÓƵ paused food distributions in the Tigray region after finding evidence of significant food aid sales in local markets. Â鶹ÊÓƵ immediately began an investigation and is enhancing safeguards and controls to ensure that necessary assistance reaches the most vulnerable women, men, and children.
ROME ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is deeply concerned by the recent reports of significant diversion of humanitarian food assistance in Ethiopia¡¯s Tigray Region. Â鶹ÊÓƵ takes this issue extremely seriously and will not tolerate any interference in its distribution of critical food aid to the most vulnerable women, men and children.
As needs grow and refugees continue to arrive, UN agencies and partner organizations today appealed for $116 million to provide life-saving assistance to Somali refugees seeking safety in an extremely remote area of Ethiopia¡¯s Somali region.
ADDIS ABABA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has delivered over 2,400 metric tons of food, medical, nutrition and other lifesaving supplies to Ethiopia¡¯s Tigray region following the signing of a peace agreement earlier this month and the reopening of all four road corridors. However, deliveries of assistance within Tigray are not matching the needs and Â鶹ÊÓƵ and its cooperating partners urgently need access to all parts of the region to deliver food and nutrition assistance to 2.3 million vulnerable people.
Addis Ababa, 21 November 2022 - The European Union (EU), through its partnership with UNICEF and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), has granted €33 million (1.8 billion Ethiopian Birr) to restore education services and implement school feeding programmes so children living in conflict-affected areas in Ethiopia can get back to learning.
Rome/Seoul ¨C The head of the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) office in the Republic of Korea has announced that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has contributed US$ 2.4 million to Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s food assistance in Ethiopia, Jordan, °Õ¨¹°ù°ì¾±²â±ð and Afghanistan.
ROME ¨C It is reprehensible that millions of people will be pushed further into hunger by the resumption of fighting in Northern Ethiopia. In the past few months, the humanitarian truce has allowed Â鶹ÊÓƵ and our partners to reach almost 5 million people in Tigray. However, yesterday that lifeline was severed.
ADDIS ABABA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Ethiopian Government Refugees and Returnees Service (RRS) appealed today for US$73m to provide food rations to over 750,000 refugees in Ethiopia, over the next six months. Â鶹ÊÓƵ will completely run out of food for refugees by October, leaving vulnerable families who are dependent on food assistance at risk of undernutrition, micronutrient deficiency, susceptibility to diseases/infection and increased protection risks, the three agencies warn.
ADDIS ABABA ¨C? The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes USD 60 million from the United Arab Emirates to support their humanitarian response in Ethiopia. The funding will provide emergency food and nutrition assistance in response to an alarming rise in food insecurity, particularly in the north of the country where 19 months of war has almost exhausted people¡¯s coping mechanisms and displaced hundreds of thousands from their homes. More than 13 million people require humanitarian food assistance in conflict-affected Afar, Amhara and Tigray regions.
This comes against the backdrop of the global food crisis where rising costs linked to the war in Ukraine are compounding woes. The UAE funds, delivered through the Famine Relief Fund, will allow Â鶹ÊÓƵ to continue to address the urgent food needs of 1.6 million people in the conflict-affected north of Ethiopia through food distributions in Tigray, Afar and Amhara. Conditions in Ethiopia have deteriorated due to the combination of conflict, climate shocks and the economic impacts of COVID-19 and the recent crisis in Ukraine. Inflation is at its highest peak in ten years - and the population in need of food assistance has doubled over the past 12 months ¨C to around 20.4 million people.
ADDIS ABABA ¨C? Hunger is tightening its grip on more than 20[1] million people in Ethiopia who are facing a combination of conflict in the north and climate shocks ¨C drought ¨C in the south while dwindling resources mean food and nutrition support may run dry from next month, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today.
