Thu 06 May 2021:
The United Nations has released 65 million US Dollars for the humanitarian response in Ethiopia.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement on Thursday that it has released some $65 million to assist more than 16 million people in Ethiopia, including in the embattled Tigray region.
“The United Nations has released US$65 million for the humanitarian response in Ethiopia,” the statement said. “More than 16 million people need humanitarian assistance throughout Ethiopia, including an estimated 4.5 million in the Tigray region.”
A total of 40 million US Dollars will be dedicated to the aid operation in Tigray, where it will fund emergency shelter, clean water, health care, work to prevent and respond to cases of sexual and gender-based violence, and emergency telecommunications to support the humanitarian response.
The remaining $25 million will support humanitarian operations in the rest of Ethiopia, including funding the response to drought in the Somali and Oromia regions, support for the treatment of children with malnutrition and enabling aid organizations to pre-position supplies.
Last week an inter-agency humanitarian convoy managed to reach Samre town, where it delivered emergency food aid and nutrition supplies and organized a mobile health clinic in the Samre hospital. These recent reports show the promise of improved access and underscore the urgency of additional funding to help people who were previously unreachable.
OCHA said the current response throughout Ethiopia, heavily impacted by drought and an ongoing conflict in Tigray, is insufficient and urgently requires additional funding as well as unimpeded humanitarian access.
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