Foreign Minister Schallenberg in Ethiopia: focus on humanitarian situation and conflict in Tigray
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Austria provides 3 million euros
His first trip abroad in 2021 is taking Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg to Ethiopia, which has been a priority country of Austrian Development Cooperation for almost 30 years and is facing enormous challenges due to the conflict in the Tigray region and the precarious humanitarian situation.
Ethiopia has truly experienced a tsunami of crises recently – COVID-19, droughts, plagues of locusts and floods. The conflict in Tigray could now trigger a devastating domino effect in the entire region,
said the Foreign Minister, referring to a report by the International Crisis Group that identifies the current situation in Ethiopia as one of the ten crises that will be particularly explosive in 2021.