Friday, August 25, 2000
UN appeals for $30 million for internally displaced in Ethiopia
25 August -- The United Nations office in Ethiopia today appealed for $30.4 million for rehabilitation and recovery programmes for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Tigray and Afar regions of the country.
In a statement issued in Addis Ababa, the UN office said that civilians in these areas had begun to reestablish their presence in their places of origin, and needed assistance in "practically all sectors as most of them lost their possessions when they left their homes in the course of the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict."
About half of the money appealed for will be used for food assistance for some 312,000 people, while the other half will be spent on non-food assistance in the areas of health, water, shelter, agriculture, as well as mine action and AIDS programmes.
In issuing the appeal, Samuel Nyambi, the UN Resident Coordinator, said that with "the shift now to recovery and rehabilitation, the non-food components of the appeal become even more important and I hope that the donor community will support all aspects of this important intervention."
The appeal is an update of a call for funds made in January 2000, and reflects the changed circumstances since the signing of the 18 June Cessation of Hostilities Agreement. It intends to complement the ongoing efforts of the Ethiopian Government.
The UN is currently assisting 272,000 IDPs and estimates that an additional 40,500 people are in need of support.
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