February 12
Ethiopia: Humanitarian Crisis Unfolds At Jara IDP Center in North Wollo Zon
Thousands of individuals taking shelter at the Jara Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) center located in the North Wollo Zone of the Amhara region are currently grappling with a… Read more »
January 10
Ethiopia: Four Million Ethiopians On the Brink As Food Crises Escalate
The Ethiopian Disaster Risk Management Commission (DRMC) and the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator have released a joint statement urgently addressing the severe… Read more »
December 13, 2023
Ethiopia: Food Insecurity Deepens With Four Million At Risk of Emergency Hunger
In a recently released outlook report, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), a prominent authority on acute food insecurity, has issued a stark warning regarding… Read more »
Ethiopia: Only 30% of Target Beneficiaries Received Humanitarian Aid in 2023
Ethiopian government has revealed that only 30 percent of the target beneficiaries received humanitarian aid throughout the country in the year 2023. Read more »
November 17, 2023
Ethiopia: WFP Implements New Strategy to Resume Aid in Ethiopia After Months of Suspension
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has implemented a new strategy in Ethiopia to resume food assistance for 3.2 million people who have been without aid since June 2023.… Read more »
August 18, 2023
Ethiopia: 'Children's Lives Hang in the Balance' - Save the Children Calls for Unimpeded Humanitarian Aid in Conflict-Hit Amhara Region
Save the Children called on Wednesday for access for humanitarian aid to continue in Ethiopia's Amhara region where a state of emergency has been declared after a renewal in… Read more »
August 03, 2023
Ethiopia: U.S. Senator Accuses 'Leaders At the Top' of Aid Organizations After Ethiopia Food Aid Theft Revelations
In a strongly worded statement issued last night, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member, Senator Jim Risch, denounced Wednesday's news revelations that… Read more »
August 09, 2023
Ethiopia: Authorities in Tigray Region Dispute Reports of Resumption of Food Aid By WFP
The Associated Press (AP) reported yesterday that the World Food Programme (WFP) has resumed delivering food aid in the conflict-stricken Tigray region, three months after… Read more »
Ethiopia: 'Children's Lives Hang in the Balance': Save the Children Calls for Unimpeded Humanitarian Aid in Conflict-Hit Amhara Region
Save The Children said humanitarian aid needs to reach those in need including 580,000 people in the region already displaced by previous conflict. Picture: IDPs displaced in Wag… Read more »
July 31, 2023
Ethiopia: Condemning Abhorrent Food Aid Theft By Cutting Aid Is Punishing Victims Twice
Since the onset of a "reformist government" under the leadership of the ruling Prosperity Party in April 2018, Ethiopians are enduring a cocktail of deadly humanitarian crises,… Read more »
June 12, 2023
Ethiopia: Ethiopian Army Refutes Involvement in 'Country-Wide Diversion' of Food Aid
Ethiopian Ministry of Defense has vehemently denied recent allegations that the country's defense forces, along with other governmental bodies, have been involved in what the USAID… Read more »
June 10, 2023
Ethiopia: US Senator Accuses 'Leaders At the Top' of Aid Organizations After Ethiopia Food Aid Theft Revelations
In a strongly worded statement issued last night, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member, Senator Jim Risch, denounced Wednesday's news revelations that… Read more »
June 08, 2023
Ethiopia: Donor-Funded Food Diversion in Ethiopia 'Coordinated, Criminal Scheme'
Following the suspension of food aid delivery by the USAID and WFP, which at first appeared to have been triggered by food aid diversion in the war-torn Tigray regional state, an… Read more »
June 15, 2023
Ethiopia: Tigray Publishes Preliminary Findings on Food Aid Diversion
The committee established by the interim regional administration of Tigray to investigate diversion of humanitarian food in the region has revealed that the Ethiopian federal… Read more »
June 08, 2023
Ethiopia: Blinken, Demeke Meet As USAID Suspends Food Aid to Ethiopia After Widespread, Coordinated Diversion
DPM/FM Demeke Mekonnen with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in March. Photo: Antony Blinken Read more »
June 07, 2023
Ethiopia: World Food Programme Refutes Report Saying Senior Staff in Ethiopia Resigned
The World Food Program (WFP) has denied what it described as an inaccurate media report about the resignation of its senior leadership in Ethiopia. Read more »
May 25, 2023
Ethiopia: Italy Announces Ꞓ2 Million for Preservation and Enhancement of Ancient Axum Archaeological Site
Ambassador Agostino Palese vising Axum. Photo: Embassy of Italy in Ethiopia Read more »
May 23, 2023
Ethiopia: IDPs Stage Massive Demonstrations in Major Tigray Cities Against Suspended Aid, Delay in Their Return Home
Hundreds of thousands of IDPs in the Tigray region have staged massive protests in major cities of the region, calling on NGOs and the government to facilitate resumption of… Read more »
May 10, 2023
Ethiopia: 'Last Week Six People Died, Including Children' - Tigray Aid Suspension Continues
The suspension of humanitarian aid to Tigray region by major humanitarian partners continued despite reports both by regional officials and residents of hunger and hunger-related… Read more »
May 04, 2023
Ethiopia: Tigray Region Launches 'High-Level Investigation' Into Food Aid Theft
The Tigray region Interim Administration (IA) has announced the establishment of a committee to conduct investigation into the aid theft that led to international aid agencies… Read more »
April 28, 2023
Ethiopia: EU Allocates Ꞓ22 Million in Additional Humanitarian Aid to Ethiopia Following Decision to Normalize Relations
EU announced today new funding of Ꞓ22 million in humanitarian aid for the most vulnerable people in Ethiopia after the EU Council announced on April 25 that it looks forward to… Read more »
April 13, 2023
Ethiopia: Despite Massive Resources Mobilization, Drought Victim IDPs in Borana Zone Complain Inadequate, Unfair Aid Distribution
It has been more than a year since the pastoralists of Dubluk district in Borena Zone of Oromia Region, who lost all their livestock and properties to the drought that occurred as… Read more »
March 20, 2023
Ethiopia: Konso Zone in Need of Urgent Assistance As Drought Devastates Thousands
Solomon Soka, member of the House of Representatives for Konso Nation and director general of Information Network Security Administration (INSA), requested urgent attention to the… Read more »
March 13, 2023
Ethiopia: Drought-Hit Borana Communities Reel Amid Rising Aid Delivery Scandal
Community members in Yabelo, the administrative capital of the drought-hit Borana zone, in Southern Oromia, are reeling in the midst of allegations on the rising cases of… Read more »
March 01, 2023
Ethiopia: IDPs in Mekelle Complain Lack of Adequate Aid Despite Improved Humanitarian Access to Tigray
Despite reports of unrestricted flow of humanitarian aid to the Tigray region since the cessation of hostilities agreement was reached between the Ethiopian government and the TPLF… Read more »