DROUGHT AND CONFLICT HAVE LEFT OVER 2.93 MILLION ETHIOPIAN CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL

Sat 09 July 2022:

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), more than 2.93 million Ethiopian children are still out of school due to a combination of violence and drought.

According to the current Ethiopia Situation Report, 2.53 million students are absent from school due to violence, while 401,000 are absent because to drought.

According to the UNOCHA assessment, around 85 percent of schools in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, as well as 4,400 schools in parts of Ethiopia’s Afar and Amhara regions, require tables and blackboards.

The report further stated school feeding programs for more than one million primary school children have been impacted by school closures.

“Generally, high humanitarian needs are likely to continue well into 2023 due to expanding drought and increased violence,” the UNOCHA report disclosed.

The UNOCHA report also disclosed that 20 million people in Ethiopia, including 13 million people in northern Ethiopia have been identified to be food insecure and in need of food assistance.

In some areas of Ethiopia, drought is also compounded with violence, including in the southern Oromia region due to conflict and in the Somali region due to inter-communal conflicts, exacerbating previous humanitarian needs and hindering access to hundreds of thousands of people in need of assistance, according to the UNOCHA.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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