Ethiopia - Northern Ethiopia Crisis Fact Sheet #2 Fiscal Year (FY) 2023

SITUATION AT A GLANCE

• 7–7.5 MILLION People Facing Severe Acute Food Insecurity in Afar, Amhara, and Tigray USAID – October 2021

• 12.1 MILLION People Targeted for Humanitarian Assistance in Afar,
  Amhara, and Tigray UN – July 2022

• 2.4 MILLION People Displaced Across Northern Ethiopia IOM – July 2022

• 57,406 Refugees From Northern Ethiopia in Eastern Sudan UNHCR – November 2022

• Humanitarian access to northern Ethiopia’s Afar, Amhara, and Tigray regions continues to improve since the signing of the CoHA in November 2022, enabling relief actors to scale up assistance activities and deliver nearly 153,000 MT of life-saving commodities as of mid-February.

• Widespread acute food insecurity will likely persist in conflict-affected areas of northern Ethiopia through May, with communities in Tigray and Afar’s Zone 4 expected to face Emergency—IPC 4—outcomes, according to FEWS NET.

• The GoE and other stakeholders have sustained efforts to restore services to northern Ethiopia, including commercial flights and banking services.