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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. more
Atrocity crimes still being committed in Ethiopia, UN experts warn

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 release ...

Ethiopia: Mass killings continue, risk of further ‘large-scale’ atrocities

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 ...

Ethiopia: De-escalate tensions in Amhara, international rights experts urge

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.

WFP plan aims to prevent further food aid diversion in Ethiopia

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, t ...

New settlement opens for latest Somali refugees in Ethiopia

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 Tuesda ...

Ethiopia: Without immediate funding, 750,000 refugees will have ‘nothing to eat’

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.

Ethiopian migrants head home on first ever return flight from Yemen's Ma'rib

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 gover ...

Severe cash crunch threatens WFP operations in Ethiopia

New York: Millions of people in Ethiopia could be pushed deeper into hunger as the World Food Programme (WFP) faces a major funding shortfall that threatens its operations there over the ...

Ethiopia: Mass arbitrary arrests target Tigrayans, says UN rights office

New York: Over the past week, mass arrests of people reportedly of Tigrayan origin have continued in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa and elsewhere, the UN rights office said on Tuesd ...