OVERVIEW Gender Based Violence, and Conflict Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) remain key concerns in communities affected by conflicts, drought, and floods in Ethiopia. Most of the data on sexual violence in conflict-affected areas is a reflection of the CRSV. People in need (PiN) of GBV response increased to 5.8M in 2022 from 3.5M in 2021, […]

Meet 17-year-old Fiinxee. She was married off at the tender young age of 13. She does not even know how old her husband was. “My family married me off because of the drought and they had no income,” said Fiinxee. “They needed the dowry, so they sold me off.”  Fiinxee is from an area in […]

Some foreign aid organizations and the media have been playing a destructive role in the escalation and prolongation of the conflict in northern Ethiopia, scholars claimed. A panel discussion on international actors and civil conflicts in Africa: the case of Ethiopia’s conflict in the northern part, was held today. Papers were presented on humanitarian aid, […]

Women and girls in the Tigray, Afar and Amhar are increasingly vulnerable to abduction and trafficking for sexual exploitation as they flee the conflict in Northern Ethiopia, UN experts* warned today. The protracted armed conflict in the Tigray, Afar and Amhara regions of Ethiopia have heightened risks of trafficking for sexual exploitation as a form […]

Protection “Protect and Solve”- Workshop on internal displacement: From 18-20 August, UNHCR organized its first workshop on internal displacement in Ethiopia, with the aim to share information and good practices about its support to the growing population of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ethiopia, as well as to seek feedback and inputs to inform a […]

MOGADISHU / WASHINGTON — A top Somali police official and several of his guards were killed Friday in a roadside bomb blast near the southern town of Balad, according to Somali authorities. The attack involved a landmine that targeted Mogadishu Police Commissioner Farhan Mohamoud Adan, better known as “Qarole,” near the Balad district, 35 kilometers north […]