Source: Save The Children
Save the Children was one of the first aid agencies to reach Axum in Ethiopia’s Central Tigray region earlier this month, delivering critical food distributions to more than 4,300 people.
The child rights organisation distributed food, shelter and sanitation items to thousands of displaced children and their families – the first distributions in the location in over three months.
A large number of people displaced by the recent conflict in Tigray have fled to Axum, with over 6,000 displaced people[1] currently seeking shelter in overcrowded schools, makeshift camps, or in the homes of local families.
Since arriving in Axum in early February, Save the Children has met families who have not eaten for days, and who cannot access vital health services, as there are extremely limited medical supplies in hospitals. Save the Children has reached over 1,063 families, or 4,368 people, with essential food aid and other supplies, but the area is in desperate n
Save the Children: Supplies and critical food distributions reach displaced people in Axum, Central Tigray - Ethiopia
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Conflict compounded by Covid-19 and climate change pushes millions in Tigray to the brink - Oxfam
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The conflict in Tigray compounded by climate-fuelled locust infestations and coronavirus has left millions of people in desperate need of humanitarian aid yet access to those affected continues to be restricted, warned Oxfam today.
Recent Oxfam assessments in South and West Tigray, as well as neighbouring North Amhara, found that communities were already struggling to cope before the conflict erupted in November 2020.
Gezahegn Kebede Gebrehana, Oxfam’s Country Director in Ethiopia said:
“The three lethal Cs - conflict, coronavirus and climate change - have pushed millions of Ethiopians in Tigray to the brink. Even before the conflict, people had lost up to half their crops due to climate-fuelled plagues of locusts and they were struggling due to the devastating health and economic impacts of coronavirus. The conflict erupted in the middle of the harvest season, halting at