Summary: April 17, 2001: Commission allocates €6.7 million in humanitarian assistance for Ethiopia (Brussels)
The European Commission has adopted an intervention plan for €6.7 million to support humanitarian aid projects in Ethiopia during 2001. The plan focuses on assisting people who are still suffering the legacy of the 1998-2000 drought, on meeting the continuing humanitarian needs of victims of the recent border war with Eritrea (who include refugees, internally displaced people, deportees and prisoners of war) and on helping Somali refugees, who have been in the country since the early 1990s,
to return home.
Three years of cumulative rain failures, combined with major structural deficiencies and inadequate local capacity, have resulted in acute water and food shortages in southern Ethiopia.
The situation was exacerbated by the resumption of full-scale war with neighboring Eritrea in May 2000. This led to the squandering of extremely scarce resources and hampered relief efforts in favor of the drought-affected population. The main humanitarian effect of the conflict was to displace some 270,000 people living in the north of the country.
During 2001, ECHO is continuing to concentrate its efforts on meeting essential needs.
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