UN food agency ramps up deliveries amid worsening food security in Ethiopia
Feb 07, 2024, at 04:50 pm
As severe hunger ripples across northern Ethiopia, the World Food Programme (WFP) is ramping up efforts to deliver lifesaving assistance to three million people in the coming weeks to avert “a major humanitarian catastrophe”, the agency announced on Tuesday.
Around 3.5 million displaced in Ethiopia: UN's International Organization for Migration
Jan 20, 2024, at 05:44 am
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia): More than 3.45 million people are displaced in Ethiopia, with more than half of them displaced due to conflict, according to a new report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), a UN agency.
Ethiopia: Victims ‘left in limbo’ as rights probe mandate ends
Oct 14, 2023, at 10:17 pm
The UN-mandated Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia on Friday released a harrowing report on the “staggering” level of human rights violations and mass killings that have plagued the east African nation since the Tigray conflict erupted in 2020.
UN warns of heightened risk of genocide and atrocity crimes in Ethiopia
Oct 11, 2023, at 10:55 pm
Following reports of continued fighting between government troops and local militias in Ethiopia, the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide is sounding the alarm about the heightened risk of genocide and related atrocity crimes in the Tigray, Amhara, Afar and Oromi regions.
Atrocity crimes still being committed in Ethiopia, UN experts warn
Oct 04, 2023, at 08:46 pm
New York: Independent UN human rights experts are warning that there is “an overwhelming risk” atrocity crimes “will continue” in Ethiopia. in a new report released on Tuesday.
Ethiopia: Mass killings continue, risk of further ‘large-scale’ atrocities
Sep 19, 2023, at 10:39 pm
In Ethiopia, war crimes have continued unabated almost a year after a ceasefire was agreed between the country’s Government and forces from the northern Tigray region, UN-appointed independent rights experts said on Monday.
Aug 20, 2023, at 11:57 pm
New York: The UN and partners are responding to disease outbreaks and an ongoing food insecurity crisis across Ethiopia which has left 1.2 million children suffering severe acute malnutrition.
Ethiopia: De-escalate tensions in Amhara, international rights experts urge
Aug 11, 2023, at 11:02 pm
An international human rights body focused on Ethiopia has voiced deep concerns over the worsening security situation in the northwest of the country, particularly in the Amhara region.
Ethiopia submits request to join BRICS
Jun 30, 2023, at 11:39 pm
Addis Ababa:Ethiopia has submitted a request to join the BRICS mechanism, said by the foreign ministry on Thursday.
UN suspends food assistance as Ethiopia wrestles with aid diversions
Jun 10, 2023, at 04:56 pm
New York: Amid media reports of widespread theft of aid deliveries in Ethiopia, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Friday the immediate temporary suspension of food assistance to the country.
WFP plan aims to prevent further food aid diversion in Ethiopia
May 24, 2023, at 06:50 pm
Following widespread diversion of lifesaving food aid in Ethiopia last month, the World Food Programme (WFP) has strengthened safeguards and controls in a bid to prevent further misuse, the UN agency said on Tuesday.
New settlement opens for latest Somali refugees in Ethiopia
Apr 13, 2023, at 12:04 am
New York: As part of his “solidarity visit” to Somalia on Tuesday in the midst of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday that he was on the ground “to ring the alarm on the need of massive international support” for the country.
Ethiopia: Northern aid access improving but some areas still hard to reach
Feb 03, 2023, at 07:49 pm
New York: UN humanitarians on Thursday reported that aid access in the north is continuing to improve with aid operations expanding following last November’s ceasefire agreement, but some civilians in the battle-scarred region “remain hard to reach.”
Ukraine grain deal, Ethiopia agreement, show ‘power of multilateralism in action’: Guterres
Nov 04, 2022, at 10:26 pm
Russia’s decision to rejoin the Black Sea Grain Initiative and the Ethiopian agreement to end the war in Tigray demonstrate the power of multilateralism in action, said the UN chief on Thursday, in a call for countries to also rebuild trust between the North and South at the UN’s COP27 climate conference in Egypt.
Ethiopia: Peace agreement between Government and Tigray ‘a critical first step’: Guterres
Nov 04, 2022, at 09:50 pm
New York: A peace deal between the Ethiopian Government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) signed on Wednesday in South Africa, represents “a critical first step” towards ending the brutal two year war, said the UN chief.
Ethiopia: UN chief ‘gravely concerned’ by escalation in fighting across Tigray
Oct 17, 2022, at 10:54 pm
New York: The UN Secretary-General issued a statement on Saturday expressing grave concern over the escalation of fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, where Government troops and separatist forces have been locked in conflict since November 2020.
Fight against human trafficking must be strengthened in Ethiopia’s wartorn north
Oct 04, 2022, at 10:41 pm
New York: Throughout Ethiopia’s Tigray, Afar and Amhar regions, women and girls are becoming increasingly vulnerable to abduction and sex trafficking as they flee ongoing armed conflict, a group of UN-appointed independent human rights experts warned on Monday.
Ethiopia: Civilians again mired in intractable and deadly war, Human Rights Council hears
Sep 23, 2022, at 05:24 pm
New York: Ethiopia’s people are once again “mired…in the intractable and deadly consequences” of conflict between Government troops and forces loyal to Tigrayan separatist fighters, who are all likely responsible for war crimes, top rights investigators said on Thursday.
WHO Boss Tedros says he is unable to send money to 'starving' family
Aug 26, 2022, at 11:56 pm
Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) chief Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, has revealed he is unable to send money to his "starving" relatives in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region.
Ethiopia: Massive fuel theft puts WFP operations in Tigray at risk
Aug 26, 2022, at 11:41 pm
New York: The robbery of over half a million tonnes of fuel from the World Food Programme (WFP) in Ethiopia’s Tigray region will make it impossible to continue operations that support millions of hungry people, the UN agency said on Thursday.
Drought, hunger and fighting leave Ethiopia in ‘very difficult humanitarian situation’
Aug 26, 2022, at 07:42 pm
New York: Amidst deteriorating levels of malnutrition and Ethiopia’s worst drought in 40 years, 17 million people are being targeted for humanitarian assistance, the UN spokesperson said on Wednesday.
Pilots fall asleep while flying at 37,000 feet, miss landing at Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa
Aug 20, 2022, at 04:00 am
In a bizarre incident, two Ethiopian Airlines pilots fell asleep while flying a plane on way from Sudan's Khartoum to Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, leaving them to miss their landing.
Ethiopia: Without immediate funding, 750,000 refugees will have ‘nothing to eat’
Aug 10, 2022, at 08:39 pm
New York: UN agencies appealed on Tuesday for $73 million over the next six months to provide food rations to more than 750,000 people seeking refuge in Ethiopia.
Ethiopia: Loan from UN fund allows FAO to scale up fertilizers for farmers in Tigray
Aug 09, 2022, at 07:07 pm
New York: A $10 million loan from the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) will allow the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to scale up the procurement of fertilizers to support farmers in the restive Tigray region in northern Ethiopia, the agency announced on Monday.
UN delegation returns from human rights fact-finding mission in Ethiopia
Aug 03, 2022, at 11:11 pm
New York: Three UN-appointed independent human rights experts returned from Ethiopia on Tuesday after working to negotiate access to areas important for investigations.
Conflict, drought, dwindling food support, threatens lives of 20 million in Ethiopia
Jun 24, 2022, at 09:24 pm
New York: Hunger is tightening its grip on more than 20 million Ethiopians who are facing conflict in the north, drought in the south and dwindling food and nutrition support beginning next month, the UN food relief agency warned on Thursday.
Ethiopian migrants head home on first ever return flight from Yemen's Ma'rib
Jun 10, 2022, at 07:32 pm
New York: For the first time ever, 150 Ethiopian migrants are flying to Addis Ababa on a Voluntary Humanitarian Return (VHR) flight from Yemen’s conflict-affected Ma’rib governarate, the UN migration agency, IOM, said on Thursday.
Ethiopia: Essential aid reaches Tigray region, but more still needed
May 06, 2022, at 09:10 pm
New York: A convoy carrying desperately needed humanitarian aid arrived in the capital of the restive Tigray region in northern Ethiopia this past weekend, the UN reported on Thursday.
Ethiopia conflict: thousands of Eritrean refugees flee new deadly attack on camp
Feb 19, 2022, at 07:13 pm
New York: Thousands of Eritrean refugees sheltering at a camp in the Ethiopian Afar region, have fled following a deadly attack on the facility earlier this month, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday.
Ethiopia: UNHCR rushing aid to 20,000 refugees fleeing clashes
Feb 06, 2022, at 12:43 am
New York: UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, and partners are rushing life-saving aid to more than 20,000 refugees after they fled clashes in Ethiopia’s Benishangul Gumuz region, bordering Sudan and South Sudan.