Ethiopia is Africa's oldest independent country and its second-most populous. The country made important development gains in last decade in education, health and food security, and economic growth.However, the combination of armed conflict, climate shocks, disease outbreaks and the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 have led to the deterioration in humanitarian conditions in the country. The 2023 Ethiopia Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) seeks $3.99 billion to target 20.1 million people…
The 2023 Humanitarian Response Plan for Yemen (HRP) requires $4.3 billion to reach the 17.3 million most vulnerable people in need of humanitarian support.The World Food Programme (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) identified eight acute food insecurity “hotspots” of very high concern from November 2023 to April 2024, including Yemen. The agencies said in Yemen, acute food insecurity “is expected to remain at critical levels, amid the protracted economic…
(Kinshasa, 19 June 2023): The world’s top relief officials have triggered an immediate scale-up of humanitarian operations in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following months of relentless violence and rising humanitarian needs, with a focus on the scarcity of food, protection concerns and the spread of treatable diseases in the provinces of Ituri and North Kivu, as well as in South Kivu.Last week, nearly fifty people, many of them women and children, were massacred in the Lala displacement…
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has told the Global Refugee Forum that the people of Gaza “are running out of time and options, as they face bombardment, deprivation, and disease in an ever-ever-shrinking space.”“They are facing the darkest chapter of their history since 1948. And it has been a painful history,” Lazzarini said on Wednesday, in Geneva, after arriving straight from the besieged enclave.He said the people of Gaza are now crammed into less than one-third of the original…
