Ethiopia
OngoingOverview
Key Content
- OCHA Humanitarian Bulletin Issue 35 | 04 – 17 September 2017
- FEWS NET Ethiopia Food Security Outlook Update, August 2017
- FAO Ethiopia Situation Report - August 2017
Appeals & Funding
- Ethiopia Humanitarian Requirements Document 2017
- Mid-Year Review, Humanitarian Requirements Document, Jul 2017
- Horn of Africa: A Call for Action, Feb 2017
- FAO Ethiopia Drought response plan and priorities in 2017 - Rev, Aug 2017
- 2017 South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan Revised (May 2017)
Humanitarian Action for Children 2017: Ethiopia
- Country-based Pooled Fund
Useful Links
Disasters
- Ethiopia: Measles Outbreak - May 2017
- East Africa: Armyworm Infestation - Mar 2017
- Ethiopia: Floods - Apr 2016
- Ethiopia: Floods - Oct 2015
- Ethiopia: Drought - 2015-2017
- Ethiopia: Floods - Oct 2014
- West Africa: Ebola Outbreak - Mar 2014
- Ethiopia: Yellow Fever Outbreak - May 2013
- Horn of Africa: Polio Outbreak - May 2013
- Ethiopia: Floods - Apr 2013
his report takes its inspiration from the United Nations Secretary-General’s Every Woman Every Child initiative, which calls for countries to do everything possible to protect the lives and futures of all women, children and adolescents. It follows the approach used for the
State of the World’s Midwifery 2014 report, but focuses on 21 of the 23 countries in the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) East and Southern Africa region.
Human Rights Council
Thirty-sixth session
11-29 September 2017
Agenda item 10
Technical assistance and capacity-building
Note by the Secretariat
Addis Ababa, September 19, 2017 – The U.S. Government, through the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID), today announced the launch of the five-year, $40 million Community HIV Care and Treatment project. Through the project, USAID aims to contribute to the 90-90-90 global goals, which are 90 percent of people living with HIV diagnosed, 90 percent of diagnosed people on antiretroviral treatment (ART) and 90 percent of people in treatment with fully suppressed viral load by 2020 in Ethiopia. The Community HIV Care and Treatment project is funded through the U.S.
On this issue
UN Migration Agency Launches Study to Help Scale up Formal Remittances to Ethiopia
Another 180 Migrants Forced from Boat Today, a Day after 50 Somalis, Ethiopians were Drowned by Smugglers off Yemen
50 Ethiopian Migrants Stranded in Puntland Return Home with UN Migration Agency Assistance
ABOUT
Around the world, there are too many refugee children who haven’t just lost their homes, they’re also losing their futures every single day.
More than half of all the refugee children in the world – 3.5 million children – aren’t in school.
Executive summary
Facts & Figures:
65.6 million people forcibly displaced;
20 million at risk of famine in North-East Nigeria, South Sudan,
Somalia and Yemen;1.5 billion people living in fragile and conflict-affected countries.
EU Action:
International Conference on Social Protection on 28-29 September 2017, with the participation of 25 countries;
Development of a training package and provision of guidance on social protection in fragile contexts;
Overview
This weekly bulletin focuses on selected acute public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African Region. The WHO Health Emergencies Programme is currently monitoring 48 events in the region. This week’s edition covers key new and ongoing events, including:
• Plague in Madagascar
• Undiagnosed acute jaundice syndrome in Ethiopia
• Humanitarian crisis in Nigeria
• Humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia
• Humanitarian crisis in South Sudan
• Hepatitis E in Chad
• Malaria in Burundi
Résumé
UNHCR remains deeply concerned by the significant impact the escalating hostilities are having on the protection of civilians and on the increase of newly displaced persons.
The war in Yemen, now in its third year, is exacting an unacceptably high toll on civilians, including on refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons.
Despite the challenging operational environment, UNHCR continues to reach populations with much needed lifesaving assistance countrywide.
FACTS AND FIGURES
20.7 million people in need
The ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) is a weekly bulletin for epidemiologists and health professionals on active public health threats. This issue covers the period 10-16 September 2017 and includes updates on cholera, measles, rubella, Legionnaires' disease, West Nile virus, malaria, chikungunya, and typhoid fever.
by Reuters
Sunday, 17 September 2017 19:39 GMT
By Aaron Maasho
ADDIS ABABA, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Clashes along the border of Ethiopia's Oromiya and Somali regions have displaced around 50,000 people, a senior regional official said on Sunday, in violence that has prompted the government to send the military in.
Read more on the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The humanitarian crisis has worsened in drought-stricken Ethiopia, with almost three million additional people in need of humanitarian aid this year.
8.5 million people are in dire need in Ethiopia due to worsening drought and a deteriorating food security situation, up from 5.6 million in January, according to the United Nations. Despite this, the international aid appeal for the country is only one quarter funded, nine months into the year.
