Please refer to latest situation update here. The government and partners are assisting arrivals with temporary shelter, food, non-food items, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), health services and transportation, although additional financial resources are necessary to meet the current needs and the ongoing flow of arrivals expected in the weeks ahead. The Amhara Region, which carries the weight of the impact of the situation in Sudan on Ethiopia since 21 April, has received 29,995 people as of 24 May, at the Metema border crossing point, although a few hundred crossings have been reported in Benishangul Gumuz and Gambella regions, elevating the total crossings into Ethiopia to over 30,000. Coupled with ongoing humanitarian assistance, response needs to be scaled-up in return areas for recovery and livelihood support.įurther resumption of basic services in some areas were reported including, reopening of 50 per cent of over 1,200 schools in Shire and surrounding areas (North Western and Central zones), enrollment and provision of education to a reported more than 11,400 school children in Adwa (Central Zone), bus transportation between Adigrat and Zalanbesa towns (Eastern Zone), and water supply (to benefit some 100,000 IDPs and environs) in Sheraro town (NW Zone), as well as ATM and mobile banking services in Mekelle since mid-May. Return support includes provision of medical, health and nutrition services, high-energy biscuits, sanitary supplies, and multi-purpose cash programmes. Resuming food aid remains a priority for most vulnerable groups including Internally Displaced People (IDPs), new returnees, malnourished, pregnant women, children, and elders.Īs of 15 May, the return of some 19,000 people from IDP sites in Adigrat (Eastern Zone) and Abi Adi (Central Zone) to their places of origin have been supported, while in support of reopening primary schools, 600 households (HHs) were relocated from primary schools in Mekhoni and Maichew woredas (Southern Zone), including to nearby high schools. For instance, some community-based and faith-based organizations continue their daily wet feeding activities and bread distribution in Mekelle, Shire woreda of North Western (NW) Zone, and Adwa woreda (Central Zone), as well as other urban areas. In Tigray, food partners are working closely with local and non-traditional partners who are providing smaller-scale, targeted food assistance while the main food partners’ pause in distribution continues. In the first quarter of 2023 about 10.2 million people in Tigray, Amhara and Afar regions have received humanitarian assistance out of which, 91 percent have benefited from food distribution at least once, and about 46 per cent received at least one type of any direct form of humanitarian assistance, excluding food assistance. Out-of-season floods have caused destruction of livelihoods and displacements in the tens of thousands in drought and non-drought affected areas of southern, eastern, and south-eastern parts of Ethiopia, coupled with disease outbreaks, including cholera, and which requires emergency response combined with immediate action for recovery and resilience. ![]() Ongoing fighting in areas of the country is creating protection risks for civilians, including loss of family and gender-based violence (GBV). Insecurity in neighbouring Sudan and Somaliland have created humanitarian emergency situations mainly on the north western and the most eastern points of Ethiopia, while response to continued influx of people arriving in Ethiopia is being made amid limited resources. Humanitarian relief continues to reach northern Ethiopia, although assistance does not balance the scale of unmet needs of millions of people in the Tigray, Amhara and Afar regions due to limited funding and resources, among other operational challenges.
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