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Natural and man-made reduced more than 3 million people in the Amhara region who depend on food aid
borkena
January 15, 2021
More than three million depend on monthly food aid in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, said the Amhara Region Food Security and Disaster Prevention Program Coordination Commission.
The DW Amharic service quoted the region’s commissioner, Zelalem Lijalem, on Friday to report that the three million people displaced due to natural and man-made disasters receive monthly food rations.
This year alone, around 48,000 ethnic Amhara people have been displaced from Ethiopia’s Benishangul Gumuz region following a series of massacres residing in organized shelters in the Awi area, the Amhara regional state.
More than 65,000 people from Maikadra (where there was an ethnic Amhara massacre orchestrated by TPLF forces in early November 2020), Dansha and Humera, who used to rely on subsistence retail, are also receiving good help from the region, according to the DW report. Amharic.
According to the commissioner, there are also those who were displaced due to the law enforcement campaign in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
Before the 2013 Ethiopian calendar (before 2020/21), more than 159 thousand people were displaced due to ethnic violence.
Natural disasters in the region have also reduced hundreds of thousands of otherwise productive and self-sufficient people to a situation where they cannot live without monthly food aid. Locust invasions and landslides, among other natural causes, led some 781,000 people to depend on food aid.
Soil depletion in the region is another natural cause that is affecting agricultural communities. As a result, more than 1.8 million farmers in the region have become dependent on monthly food aid.
According to Commissioner Zelalem, more than three million people obtain 413,000 quintals of grain.
In addition, the DW Amharic report said that those who depend on food aid complain that they do not have the means to cook the food they are given, as they were displaced without the essentials, about which regional authorities are talking with authorities federal.
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