APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) United Kingdom Monday announced a £100 million as a new aid to Ethiopia to save the lives of mothers and babies in northern Ethiopia amid concern over growing humanitarian catastrophe in the east African nation
The funding comes after the UK’s Development and Africa Minister, Andrew Mitchell, returned from a two-day visit to Ethiopia where he witnessed the humanitarian crisis in the country, according to a press release issued by UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.
More than three million Ethiopians, mainly mothers and babies will receive life saving help from the UK’s new humanitarian aid program in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
The program will help more than 3 million Ethiopians – mostly women and children – access essential health services, family planning support, medicines, and childhood vaccinations.
In addition, emergency funding will help 75 health centers tackle malnutrition and other preventable causes of death such as malaria and cholera.
Across northern Ethiopia, more than millions of people are facing hunger. War and climate change have crippled crop production and driven people off their lands.
The conflict in Tigray has left more than one million people displaced. The combination of conflict and failed harvests in northern Ethiopia have plunged over three million people into a state of critical food security and hunger.
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