Top UN Humanitarian Official Visits Ethiopia
Voice of America
The top United Nations humanitarian official began his first official visit to Ethiopia Thursday amid a humanitarian crisis resulting from conflicts and natural disasters in the region.
"Humanitarian needs in the country have increased this year as a result of the armed conflicts in Tigray and Benishangul-Gumuz, intercommunal violence in parts of Afar, Somali and SNNP regions, and drought in Somali, Oromia and Afar regions,” U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said in a statement. Griffiths is visiting Ethiopia for six days during which he is expected to meet with senior government officials and representatives of humanitarian and donor programs. According to the statement, he plans to visit the embattled northern Tigray region to hear first-hand accounts from affected civilians and to see the challenges humanitarian workers are confronted with.A villager shows maize crops wilting in a field, in Mumijo, Buhera district, east of the capital Harare, Zimbabwe, March 16, 2024. Christiane Rudert, nutrition adviser for UNICEF in eastern and southern Africa (Courtesy: UNICEF) Wongani Grace Taulo, regional education adviser UNICEF eastern and southern Africa. (Courtesy: UNICEF) UNICEF says it is attempting to help students and their families in the region learn ways of coping with climate change through the schools, in Harare, January 2024.
Security personnel inspect the site of a suicide attack in the Shangla district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on March 26, 2024. Five Chinese nationals working on a construction site were killed along with their driver by a suicide bomber. Security personnel inspect the site of a suicide attack near Besham city in the Shangla district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on March 26, 2024. A map of Pakistan locating the Dasu dam site in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.