🔊 Listen to this articleAddis Ababa, Dec 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) The UN Children's Fund (Unicef) has appealed for a funding worth $116.5 million to help 2.3 million vulnerable Ethiopians. The plan was updated on Thursday to readjust to the needs and requirements of vulnerable people living in the three Ethiopian regional states. "The plan seeks to increase the readiness of the humanitarian community in Ethiopia to sustain relief assistance to the already existing vulnerable people in Tigray," the Unicef statement said. Tigray alone currently hosts various categories of vulnerable groups including 750,000 non-displaced people, 100,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and 96,000 Eritrean refugees. The Unicef humanitarian response plan also targets 34,000 IDPs living in Amhara regional state as well as over 25,000 IDPs living in Afar regional state.

Source: Ethiopian News December 25, 2020 05:03 UTC