Ethiopia

While humanitarian partners are responding to the most urgent needs to arrivals, additional financial resources are required to meet the ongoing needs and the ongoing flow of arrivals, expected to continue in the weeks ahead. [...] The urgency to further scale up the response in drought-affected southern and eastern Ethiopia is high. [...] Access to food and water for many households is expected to continue to be extremely limited in 2023 and beyond and continues to require urgent humanitarian assistance. [...] The excessive seasonal (March-May) rains have also brought with them off-season flood emergencies, displacing thousands across Afar, SNNP, Oromia, Somali, Sidama and Dire Dawa, and causing additional livelihood loss notably in underserved and drought affected areas, including loss of some of the remaining emaciated livestock that have survived the drought and erosion of fertile lands impacting agr. [...] While return movements are taking place in few areas across the country, displaced affected populations require immediate support to return in safety and access to basic services and resources such as food, shelter and education, as well as interventions to recover from lost livelihoods and destruction of property, deteriorated fields and infrastructure.