U.S. provides nearly 313mln USD in additional humanitarian assistance to people in northern Ethiopia

Addis Ababa, April 22, 2022 (FBC) – The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing nearly 313 million USD in additional humanitarian assistance to help people affected by the ongoing conflict in northern Ethiopia.

The assistance is particularly aimed to support people affected by conflict in Afar, Amhara, and Tigray regions.

The new funding announced will support emergency food and nutrition assistance to meet the needs of nearly 7 million people; strengthen community health facilities and mobile health teams to combat infectious diseases; provide humanitarian protection services, such as support for survivors of gender-based violence, psychosocial services, and child protection activities; and bolster logistics support to deliver aid to people in remote and hard-to-reach areas, USAID announced.

USAID added that the United States remains committed to helping the Ethiopian people. Humanitarian partners are scaling up assistance to affected people in Afar and Amhara regions, where access has allowed aid workers to reach more than 4 million people with life-saving food since January, it is indicated.