The World Food Programme has announced that the Government of Japan has contributed 30.24 USD million to support the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to meet relief food needs of communities affected by shocks such as COVID-19, desert locusts, drought and flooding, according to Japan embassy in Ethiopia.
Channelled through the Government's National Disaster Risk Management Commission, the contribution will meet the acute food needs of over 1.6 million people in the regions of Afar, Amhara, Oromia, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples, Sidama and Tigray in the framework of the 2020 Humanitarian Response Plan.
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