Ethiopia News » Afar News Ethiopia » Afar » Health: Hundreds killed in health facility, school in Ethiopia's Afar region
Over 200 people sheltering at a health facility and school in the Afar region of Ethiopia were reported to have been killed in attacks by armed forces. This includes more than 100 children, UNICEF ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Health: Lone Referral Hospital in Ethiopia's Afar Region Struggles as Malnutrition Soars
Record-breaking drought in Ethiopia has caused child malnutrition rates to soar in the northern Afar region, where the only referral hospital says babies are dying within hours of arrival. Ethiopia's ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Health: Livestock Deaths and Water Scarcity Devastate Afar's Kori Woreda As El Niño Threat Grows
A severe water and livelihood crisis is unfolding in Kori Woreda of Ethiopia's Afar Region, where residents report widespread livestock deaths, drying water sources and mounting pressure on families ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Health: Fresh conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray could bring collapse of its battered healthcare system
The Tigray War ended in 2022, but violence towards healthcare has continued, new research has found, including attacks on health workers, ambulances and armed takeovers of health facilities ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Health: Tigray fighters enter Ethiopia’s Afar region, stoking fears of new conflict
Ethiopia’s Afar region has accused forces from neighbouring Tigray of crossing into its territory, seizing several villages and attacking civilians, in what it called a breach of the 2022 peace deal ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Health: War in Ethiopia: addressing mental health needs to be made a priority
The effects of war on the mental wellbeing of people is given much less attention than the physical harms of conflict. We have been researching and working on the mental health challenges faced by ...