Informes

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, 1 July 2004 - UNICEF's immunization campaign in Djibouti will benefit from a generous cash injection from Sultan Bin Sulayem, chairman of the Board of Dubai Aid City (a logistical facility supporting international humanitarian aid efforts). Sultan…

Seyfu Gebreselassie, a subsistence farmer living in Debdebo village in the northern region of Tigray, faced a grave situation in June 2003. The vital azmera rains that usually occur between February and May had failed, leaving crops stunted and…

ADDIS ABABA - The United Nations World Food Programme today urged donors to give cash to enable humanitarian agencies to purchase food locally to assist millions of drought-affected people in Ethiopia. Ethiopia's recent harvest, in late 2003, is 40 percent up…

JOHANNESBURG, 24 July (IRIN) - A lack of funding threatens the progress being made in the fight against polio in Angola, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned. In a statement released on Thursday, UNICEF said "although funds exist for…

ADDIS ABABA, 17 July (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of drought-stricken families in Ethiopia are being targeted in an innovative voucher scheme which they can cash in for desperately needed seeds. The US-based charity CARE said the seed voucher programme was…

ADDIS ABABA, 11 June (IRIN) - Thousands of drought-affected Ethiopian farmers are being given cash for work, in an effort to combat a food crisis in various parts of the country, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red…

Four of Malawi's remote districts will soon have access to up to 100 fish ponds, teeming with fish, to help the nutritional status and the income-generating capacity of poor farmers. This is the agenda the World Vision Malawi relief team…

A Christian Aid report by Clive Robinson Executive summary Ethiopia is once again faced with the threat of famine. More than 14 million people could be affected in 2003 unless the international community responds and delivers up to two million metric tonnes…

ADDIS ABABA, 10 January (IRIN) - The UN's peacekeeping mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea is facing a cash shortfall which may delay border demarcation, the mission said on Friday. The UN's Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) says that demarcation…

Consequences of persistent low cereal market prices in Ethiopia A situation analysis July 2002 By Dr. Yves Guinand, UN-Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia 1 Introduction and background Besides the current humanitarian threat in the north-eastern parts of Ethiopia and Afar due…