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 Last updated: 3 hours ago ETHIOPIA The United Nations now has ‘’unrestricted’’ access to the northern region of Tigray, according to a dossier cited by AFP. A senior UN official who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity on Wednesday said that the agreement would allow the UN and its humanitarian partners to deliver aid “wherever […]

The United Nations says food has now run out for the nearly 100,000 refugees from Eritrea who have been sheltering in camps in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, which has been cut off from the world for nearly a month amid fighting.ADVERTISING “Concerns are growing by the hour,” U.N. refugee spokesman Babar Baloch told reporters in Geneva on […]

Following the 2018 peace agreement between Ethiopia and Eritrea more than 60,000 Eritrean refugees arrived in Ethiopia. Thousands continue to arrive every month. They live under harsh conditions that call for humanitarian action. KEY TAKEAWAYS ■ Vulnerable Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia, women, elderly, disabled, and children need urgent humanitarian assistance, including shelters, food, water, sanitation, energy, […]

Thousands of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s conflict-hit northern region of Tigray have run out of food, the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, has said. It appealed for urgent access to the region to provide emergency assistance. Communications and aid access have been blocked since the conflict between the federal army and fighters loyal to Tigray leadership […]

“This morning, a plane carrying 32 tonnes of UNHCR emergency aid from our global stockpiles in Dubai landed in Khartoum”, said spokesperson Babar Baloch. “Another airlift is scheduled to leave Dubai on Monday with an additional 100 tonnes of additional relief items…In total, we plan to send four airlifts.” Growing exodus Since the start of fighting in […]

Operational context In 2019, the protection and working environment in Eritrea remained extremely challenging. Relations with the Government of Eritrea remained strained, with cooperation increasingly conditional on UNHCR repealing its eligibility guidelines for assessing the international protection needs of asylum-seekers from Eritrea.  UNHCR’s access to refugees and operational activities in Eritrea were tightly constrained as […]

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is appealing to the federal authorities in Ethiopia for urgent access in order to reach Eritrean refugees in the Tigray region who are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance and services. Concerns are growing by the hour. The camps will have now run out of food supplies – making hunger […]

ackground The armed conflict which began late 3 November 2020 in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region, and the subsequent military offensive ordered by the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopian Defense Forces (EDF) against the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), continues unabated. On 7 November, the Ethiopian Parliament voted to dissolve the Government of the Tigray Region. […]

Key Developments SUDAN ▪ UNHCR High Commissioner Filippo Grandi is in Sudan from 26-29 November to meet with government officials and partners along with visits to Hamdayet reception center and Um Rakuba camp. ▪ More than 43,000 Ethiopian refugees have crossed into East Sudan where humanitarian actors continue to expand assistance and seek to meet […]

CSW has joined eight other organisations and individuals in writing to various officials of the United Nations (UN) and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights urging them for urgent assistance for Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where a violent conflict has been taking place since 4 November. The letter informs the addressees, among them the UN […]