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Scaling up humanitarian support for children with disabilities and their families
Thousands of people have fled ongoing conflict in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. Some of the displaced people have been settled in temporary camps in Debre Birhan that host more than 25,000 people. When we visited Woyinshet camp, over 6,800 people were living in difficult conditions. “We don’t have any hope to return...
Press release
EU donates €33 million (1.8 billion ETB) to UNICEF and WFP to restore essential education services and implement school feeding programmes in conflict-affected areas in Ethiopia
Addis Ababa, 21 November 2022 -, The European Union (EU), through its partnership with UNICEF and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), has granted €33 million (1.8 billion Ethiopian Birr) to restore education services and implement school feeding programmes so children living in conflict-affected areas i...
Appeal
Humanitarian Action for Children 2023
Conflict in northern Ethiopia (in the Tigray, Afar and Amhara Regions) and the severe drought in the Afar, Oromia, Somali, Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regions have resulted in 31.4 million people in need in Ethiopia, including 16.5 million children and 7.8 million women. Around 4.5 million people a...
Press release
UNICEF appeals for US$10.3 billion emergency funding to support children affected by conflict, catastrophe and climate crises around the world
GENEVA/NEW YORK, 5 December 2022, – UNICEF today launched a US$10.3 billion emergency funding appeal to reach more than 173 million people – including 110 million children – affected by humanitarian crises, the enduring effects of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide and the growing threat of climate-impacted severe we...
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Frontline Workers
I just returned from Afar in northern Ethiopia to see the impact of the ongoing humanitarian crisis on women and children and UNICEF’s response. While the fighting has de-escalated, children and their families are still recovering – recovering from the unimaginable horrors they have witnessed, displaced and suffer...
Photo essay
Despite the suffering, the power of women never ceases to amaze me
I went to Dessie town, Amhara region, Ethiopia, to see the impact of the conflict on children and women and UNICEF’s response. I was both heartbroken and inspired at the same time. Saddened by the trauma families have endured due to the conflict, but also amazed by the deep generosity of women in the community. Ra...
Report
Emergency WASH Rapid Response Mechanism
The objective of the RRM is to provide life-saving WASH services and supplies at the onset of acute emergencies and shocks ensuring continuation of services. Since June 2020, when the partnership was established, 1.4 million IDPs and host community members have been reached through the RRM.
Annual report
Annual Report 2021
2021 was extremely challenging for children and their families in Ethiopia, where multiple complex emergencies—conflict, climatic shocks and the COVID-19’s socio-economic impacts—generated displacement, drove exponential growth in humanitarian needs and threatened the Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDG) progress....
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“Pregnant and mother of five, I gave up everything to flee conflict”
Zerfie Tigabu, 35, is raising her five children alone since July 2021 when, under threat of conflict and seven months pregnant, she was forced to abandon everything to come to Debark town. “Around July (2021) we learned that armed groups were coming towards our village,” recalls Zerfie. “I was seven months pregnan...
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UNICEF Ethiopia Emergency Drought Appeal
Today, children and their families across four regions of Ethiopia, are struggling for survival as a severe drought takes hold following three consecutive failed rainy seasons. The most severely impacted areas are the lowlands of Afar, Somali, SNNPR and southern and eastern Oromia Region. This has led to a devasta...
Photo essay
Crisis unabated
The northern Ethiopia conflict displaced hundreds of thousands of people, mainly women and children, away from their homes and livelihoods. The north Gondar Zone of the Amhara region, which borders the Tigray region, is hosting over 74,000 IDPs of which Debark town alone hosts 46,000. Many of the displaced are eit...
Report
UNICEF Ethiopia Humanitarian Situation Report April 2021
In April, 78,573 new medical consultations were conducted in Afar, Somali and Tigray regions through the 79 UNICEF- supported Mobile Health and Nutrition Teams (MHNTs), 38,758 of these in Tigray through the 30 active MHNTs. In the past three months, UNICEF reached 1,583,723 people throughout Ethiopia with safe wat...