ETHIOPIA:
Help "trickling in” for millions needing food aid

08 May, 2011 | IRIN
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    The Ethiopian government has
    started receiving food and non-
    food aid for hundreds of
    thousands of vulnerable people in
    the country's southern and south-
    eastern lowlands after an appeal in
    April, Agriculture Minister Mitiku
    Kassa told IRIN.

    "Based on their interests, donors'
    reactions to our latest appeal
    varies; we have received cash for
    non-food requirements while food
    is being donated in kind for the
    food needs," Mitiku said. "We had
    carried over from 2010 so now
    we are doing an overall
    assessment on what the donors'
    response has been and to know
    where we stand after the latest
    response."

The Ethiopian government and aid agencies said at least two million
people required urgent relief aid in the southern and south-eastern
lowlands, which received poor rains due to the La Niña weather
phenomenon.

"According to the revised resource requirements associated with the
increasing needs identified, an estimated US$75,030,109 is
required to respond to food and non-food needs during the....More
United Nations Resumes Work in Drought-Hit
Ethiopian Region

24 May, 2011 | William Davison (Bloomberg)
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    The United Nations resumed some
    operations in Ethiopia’s drought-stricken
    Somali region as a search for two
    workers who went missing in an ambush
    earlier this month continued, a World
    Food Programme spokeswoman said.

    “We will resume full operations when it’s
safe to do so,” Judith Schuler said in a phone interview today from
Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. “We are constantly evaluating
the situation.”

One WFP worker died and another was injured in the May 13
attack that took place on the road from Jijiga, 447 kilometers (278
miles) east of Addis Ababa, and Fik.

Ethiopia blamed the attack on “remnants” of the Ogaden National
Liberation Front, a rebel movement that has been fighting for self-
determination of the Ogaden area of the Somali region since 1984.
The group said in a May 16 statement that the attack was carried
out by the government.

The state last month issued an appeal backed by aid agencies for
$75 million to provide emergency help to 2 million people in the
south and southeast of the Horn of Africa nation amid a drought.

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In early April, the Ethiopian
government and aid agencies
said at least two million
people required urgent relief
aid in the southern and
south-eastern lowlands