“People urgently need food and nutrition support. They are keen to resume their previous livelihoods activities, but they need support to acquire inputs, and most of all, they need stability and safety. Households in Eastern Tigray rely heavily on livestock, as well as on daily labor and petty trade. The continued instability and fear of displacement and looting means many are not yet ready to begin reinvesting in other livelihoods.”
Category: Economic Impact
Recommendations for addressing drought displacement in Ethiopia
Drought-related displacement affects more and more people, but it is not the only type of displacement Ethiopia faces. More than a million new displacements associated with conflict and violence were also recorded in 2019.3
As aid must also be directed to people affected by inter-communal conflicts, humanitarian aid available to people displaced by drought has ended up being insufficient.
Ethiopia Asks UN to Urge Egypt, Sudan to Resume Nile Dam Talks
The two countries are downstream of the GERD and have refused a data exchange initiative by Ethiopia before the second filling of the dam during the upcoming rainy season.
“unilateral measures could harm the two downstream countries, due to the absence of a clear coordination mechanism between the three countries within the framework of a fair and binding legal agreement.”
Cuba thanks Ethiopia for its support against the U.S. blockade
Addis Ababa, Apr 17 (Prensa Latina) Cuba’s ambassador to Ethiopia, Vilma Thomas, thanked the historic support of this country to the struggle that the island maintains today against the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States.
Workers stay away from Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region
Of the more than 2,000 employed, only 700 have returned to work.Phone lines, the internet and other means of telecommunications were unavailable for many days, with garment and textile factories looted and destroyed.
IMF forecasts lowest economic growth for Ethiopia in 18 years.
The IMF report offered a growth forecast of 2 percent for the Ethiopian economy in the 2020/21 fiscal year, the country’s lowest rate of growth since 2003.
Sudanese PM urges Egypt, Ethiopia counterparts to attend summit on Nile Dam dispute
In an interview with FRANCE 24, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said he had called for a summit with the prime ministers of Egypt and Ethiopia to “break the deadlock” over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Talks on the issue are currently at an impasse and he urged his counterparts to respond favourably to his offer. The Sudanese premier said that Ethiopia’s plan to fill the dam “unilaterally” in July made a resolution of the dispute all the more urgent.
Ethiopia – Tigray Conflict Fact Sheet #6 Fiscal Year (FY) 2021
4.5 MILLION People in Tigray Requiring Humanitarian Assistance UN – March 2021
4 MILLION Estimated Number of People in Urgent Need of Food Assistance Food Security Cluster – January 2021
62,383 Ethiopian Refugees Arriving in Eastern Sudan Since November UNHCR – April 2021
xinhuanet Africa: Ethiopia reports 1,739 new COVID-19 cases
ADDIS ABABA, April 11 (Xinhua) — Ethiopia registered 1,739 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 227,255 as of Saturday evening, the country’s Ministry of Health said.
According to the ministry, Ethiopia currently has some 55,069 active COVID-19 cases, of which 933 are said to be under severe health conditions.
Famine in Tigray: ‘I have never documented anything as relentless & systematic as what we’re seeing’
Of all the 5.7 million people in Tigray, should the offensive continue, at least 4.5 million people will face deadly shortages of food, medicine and water, Alex de Waal, executive director of the WPF tells The Africa Report.
But this can be stopped if the majority of the Tigrayan people, many of whom are are smallholder farmers, are able to farm in time for the rains in June.