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United States Announces Additional Humanitarian Assistance for Response to Tigray Crisis
published by March 18, 2021
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US State Department (AP Photo)
PRESS RELEASE
ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE
MARCH 18, 2021
The United States is providing nearly an additional $ 52 million in assistance to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The United States has provided a total of nearly $ 153 million in humanitarian assistance since the crisis began.
This assistance from the American people will enable our international humanitarian partners to help some of the 4.5 million people estimated to be in need in Tigray and nearly 62,000 refugees who have fled to Sudan. It will enable our partners to provide vital protection, shelter, essential medical care, emergency food aid, water, sanitation and hygiene. This funding will also help our partners re-establish contact between family members who have been separated due to the conflict. The United States Agency for International Development’s disaster assistance response team continues to be deployed in support of the United States’ humanitarian response efforts.
We remain deeply concerned about the worsening humanitarian crisis in Tigray. While we recognize the public commitments and progress made by the Government of Ethiopia to increase humanitarian access, the international community must comply with all commitments, including lifting restrictions on the importation and use of communications equipment by humanitarian organizations and the granting of extended visas to humanitarian workers. Immediate, full, safe and unhindered access for humanitarian organizations and workers is essential to provide timely and needs-based assistance to those affected by the conflict.
The humanitarian situation will continue to deteriorate without a political solution.
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