Unexploded weapons have continued threatening the lives of communities in conflict-affected parts of northern Ethiopia, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said. According to the ICRC, among those most at risk are children playing and farmers returning to their land located in former battlefields. It has trained nearly 50 volunteers who promote risk awareness and safer behavior in 23 districts across Tigray, the ICRC said, adding that ICRC weapon contamination teams also visit victims and refer them for medical or physical rehabilitation care in facilities supported by the ICRC. Some victims of weapon contamination accidents with exceptional difficulties have also received emergency financial assistance from the ICRC to cover their urgent needs, it said. According to International Humanitarian Law, civilians exposed to unexploded ordnance must be protected and assisted, the statement said.

Food aid will be restored to roughly 1 million refugees from Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, and elsewhere. However, food assistance has not resumed for the 20.1 million Ethiopians who rely on it as the country grapples with internal conflict and drought. USAID and the United Nations World Food Program in June halted all food aid to Ethiopia after an internal investigation found donated food intended for millions of hungry people there was being diverted on a “widespread” scale. Both agencies had already paused food assistance to the war-torn province of Tigray in March. At the time, USAID officials told The Associated Press that the diversion scheme could be the largest-ever theft of humanitarian food.

Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of her tireless campaigning for women's rights and democracy and against the death penalty. Before being jailed, Mohammadi was vice president of the banned Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. Unlike the other Nobel prizes that are selected and announced in Stockholm, founder Alfred Nobel decreed that the peace prize be decided and awarded in Oslo by the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee. The peace prize was the fifth of this year's prizes to be announced. A pair of scientists whose work enabled mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday.

(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s sole eurobond is close to erasing gains made since a peace process started to end its catastrophic civil war, as investors increase bets that the Horn of Africa nation will default. A prospective end to that two-year conflict had revived hopes that Ethiopia could return to form as one of Africa’s best growth prospects. Ethiopia has about $28 billion of external debt and has said it would need $20 billion for post-war reconstruction. Moody’s Investors Service last month downgraded Ethiopia’s credit rating to Caa3, warning of the “increasingly high likelihood of default” on its foreign currency private-sector debt. The conflict left hundreds of thousands dead and forced millions more to flee, according to US and European Union estimates.

The decision was made after Ethiopia’s government agreed to remove itself from the dispatch, storage and distribution of refugee food supplies, a USAID spokesperson said. Food aid will be restored to roughly 1 million refugees from Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, and elsewhere. However, food assistance has not resumed for the 20.1 million Ethiopians who rely on it as the country grapples with internal conflict and drought. US SUSPENDS FOOD AID TO ETHIOPIA AFTER INVESTIGATION REVEALS 'WIDESPREAD' SUPPLY THEFTUSAID and the United Nations World Food Program in June halted all food aid to Ethiopia after an internal investigation found donated food intended for millions of hungry people there was being diverted on a "widespread" scale. Both agencies had already paused food assistance to the war-torn province of Tigray in March.

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"The resumption of food assistance to refugees will save lives and alleviate suffering for some of the most vulnerable," the official said. USAID said in June it was suspending food aid to Ethiopia because its donations were being stolen. In the 2022 fiscal year, USAID disbursed nearly $1.5 billion in humanitarian assistance to Ethiopia, most of it food aid. The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said in August it had resumed distributing food aid in parts of the Tigray region after a three-month pause. WFP paused food aid to the northern region in May following reports of widespread theft of donations.

The European Union on Tuesday announced a new effort to help Ethiopia rebuild from an ethnic-driven civil war that still lingers nearly a year after it was brought formally to an end. Then, yesterday, a United Nations mandate for an inquiry into human rights violations during and since the war expired. Since the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, and arguably further back, individual countries and the international community have embraced truth-telling as indispensable to post-conflict reconciliation and lasting peace. Those investments, starting with an initial EU pledge of nearly $700 million over three years, align with Ethiopia’s own projects to rebuild local economies disrupted by the war. In Ethiopia, the EU may be shaping a new model for reform and reconciliation, one that targets investments toward uniting a country around shared values of good governance.

The United States Agency for International Development said Thursday it is resuming food deliveries to hundreds of thousands of refugees in Ethiopia, four months after assistance was halted over a widespread scheme to steal supplies. AdvertisementHowever, food assistance has not resumed for the 20.1 million Ethiopians who rely on it as the country grapples with internal conflict and drought. USAID and the United Nations World Food Program in June halted all food aid to Ethiopia after an internal investigation found donated food intended for millions of hungry people there was being diverted on a “widespread” scale. Both agencies had already paused food assistance to the war-torn province of Tigray in March. At the time, USAID officials told the Associated Press that the diversion scheme could be the largest-ever theft of humanitarian food.

Google map of EthiopiaBy Staff ReporterADDIS ABABA – (BORKENA) – A mother and child died instantly, while six other people were seriously injured in an attack perpetrated against members of a family belonging to the Mareqo ethnic group in Meskan Woreda, Central Ethiopia Region, sources said. VoA Amharic service quoted neighbors and families of the deceased and injured people, stating that following the attack, the wounded were transported to Adama General Hospital. Concerning the issue, VoA could not include reactions from administrative bodies and officials of East Guraghe Zone and the leadership of Meskan Woreda, as they did not respond to telephone calls made to them. Administrator of the Special Woreda, Mareko, Nigussie Meke, confirmed to Voice of America that two civilians were killed in a brutal attack inflicted by an armed group on the members of a family who were drinking coffee together. __To share information or for submission, send e-mail to info@borkena.comJoin our Telegram Channel: t.me/borkenaGot a business?

Since Thursday in Addis Ababa, the peace and security bodies of the UN and the African Union (AU) have been discussing the financing of peacekeeping operations carried out under the aegis of the pan-African organization on the continent. The member countries of the UN Security Council (UNSC) and the AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) are holding their annual meeting on Thursday and Friday in the Ethiopian capital, headquarters of the AU. Opening the proceedings, AU Peace and Security Commissioner Bankole Adeoye called on participants to "specifically address the central issue of predictable, adequate, flexible and sustainable funding" for the continental organization's peacekeeping operations in Africa. Since the establishment of its "African Peace and Security Architecture" in 2002, the AU has struggled to finance its peace operations, which are largely dependent on partners such as the European Union (EU). "Funding AU-led peace and security operations will strengthen the capacity of both organizations to tackle threats to peace and security on the continent", said Mr. Onanga-Anyanga.

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Aim-listed Kefi Gold and Copper has completed the last of many special permissions and policy changes agreed with the Ethiopian authorities over the years since Kefi assumed control of the Tulu Kapi gold project. The Tulu Kapi project is now finally fully permitted with only procedural administrative confirmations remaining. The special permissions and policy changes allow modern project finance arrangements to be applied given there has been no industrial-scale mine development in Ethiopia for 30 years. With all matters of principle for the project now having been resolved with the authorities, the project finance banks can proceed to final credit approval for the project's $190-million secured debt package. This will then be signed off by all parties involved in the project.

KAMPALA: The United States Agency for International Development said on Thursday it is resuming food deliveries to hundreds of thousands of refugees in Ethiopia, four months after assistance was halted over a widespread scheme to steal supplies. "We continue to work with the Ethiopian government on additional reforms that will help ensure that assistance is provided based on assessed vulnerability and need, consistent with international best practice," the USAID spokesperson said.USAID and the United Nations World Food Program in June halted all food aid to Ethiopia after an internal investigation found donated food intended for millions of hungry people there was being diverted on a "widespread" scale. Both agencies had already paused food assistance to the war-torn province ofTigray in March.At the time, USAID officials told The Associated Press that the diversion scheme could be the largest-ever theft of humanitarian food. Since then, thousands of deaths linked to the food pause have been reported in Tigray.The WFP restarted small-scale distributions in some areas of Tigray on July 31 as it tested "enhanced controls and measures." Last month, the leader of the Tigray region said 480 people had been arrested there over the theft.

Food aid will be restored to roughly 1 million refugees from Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, and elsewhere. However, food assistance has not resumed for the 20.1 million Ethiopians who rely on it as the country grapples with internal conflict and drought. USAID and the United Nations World Food Program in June halted all food aid to Ethiopia after an internal investigation found donated food intended for millions of hungry people there was being diverted on a “widespread” scale. Both agencies had already paused food assistance to the war-torn province of Tigray in March. At the time, USAID officials told The Associated Press that the diversion scheme could be the largest-ever theft of humanitarian food.