UNITED NATIONS — The deputy chief of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) arrived in Ethiopia today for the start of a four-day visit to review the humanitarian situation in the south and southeast of the country, which has become parched by drought.
Hilde Johnson, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, is expected to meet with Government officials, UN agencies, key donors and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) while in Ethiopia, according to a statement released in Addis Ababa, the capital.
As many as 4.6 million Ethiopians are now in need of immediate humanitarian assistance because of a lack of seasonal rains, coupled with rising food prices. The worst affected areas are in three administrative states of the Horn of Africa country: Oromio, Somali Region and Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR).
Children are among the hardest-hit by the current conditions, with about 75,000 children estimated to be facing severe acute malnutrition already.
Earlier this month the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revised its appeal for Ethiopia to at least $325 million to meet the growing demand for aid.
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Good travelling and assessing drought in Ethiopia and dictatorship especially in Zimbabwe only.
Doing always the same thing and providing always the same recommendations, that is to say, endless poverty and hopelessness for the general public.
At the same time helping dictators escape with their crimes that is 1000 times more impovershing than the so called drought being taken as an excuse of covering up minority facist rules and dehumanizations.
Surely this group may be leisurely entertained and surounded by the TPLF dictatorship, being overfed, overmisled, overdrunken and overwriting the one sided vagaries of nature that is a blessing in disguise for the dictators and a paramount curse for the endlessely starving good population.
Here is one great opportunity for the local oppositions to show these visiters how minority rule, dictatorship,lack of democracy, restlessness, bad governance and corrup squandering scarce resouces in self mmade permanent war and violence are the mother of miseries in Ethiopia.
They should not go there inorder to extricate the Wayane dictatorship and dress its foxy face with an innocent sheep skin for milking the national and internal funders and extend its killing power.