Archive for May 2nd, 2025

02/05/2025

Aid Cuts Hit Ethiopia’s Malnourished Children, Jeopardizing Life-Saving Response

Human Wrongs Watch

By Elshaday Gebeyehu, Jessica Lawson and Elizabeth Bryant | World Food Programme*

WFP warns millions at risk of growing hunger and malnutrition as country is buffeted by a raft of shocks
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Seven-month-old Eldana counts among millions of malnourished children in Ethiopia. The WFP support she receives may soon run out, for lack of funds. Photo: WFP/Michael Tewelde
Seven-month-old Eldana counts among millions of malnourished children in Ethiopia. The WFP support she receives may soon run out, due to lack of funds. Photo: WFP/Michael Tewelde

22 April 2025 — At a crowded health post in northern Ethiopia, Belaynesh Berihu cradles tiny daughter Eldana, as a health worker slips a coloured tape around the infant’s arm to gauge malnourishment.

“She eats very little, she doesn’t have an appetite,” says Berihu, whose daughter weighed less than 2 kg at birth. Berihu, too, is painfully thin – surviving on a diet of mostly wheat and teff-based bread.

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02/05/2025

“For Two Months, Children in Gaza Have Faced Relentless Bombardments While Being Deprived of Essential Goods…” – UNICEF

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Statement from UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the situation for children in the Gaza Strip after two months of aid blockade

قطاع غزة. صبي يسير فوق أنقاض منزله المدمر في مدينة غزة.
 
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NEW YORK, 2 May 2025 (UNICEF)* — “For two months, children in the Gaza Strip have faced relentless bombardments while being deprived of essential goods, services and lifesaving care.

With each passing day of the aid blockade, they face the growing risk of starvation, illness and death – nothing can justify this.

“Families are struggling to survive. They are trapped, unable to flee in search of safety. The land they used to farm has been destroyed.

02/05/2025

Israel Must End ‘Cruel Collective Punishment’ in Gaza, Urges UN Relief Chief

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(UN News)* — The UN’s top humanitarian official on Thursday [] issued a stark warning over the continuing blockade of aid into Gaza, calling on Israel to lift restrictions that have left civilians without food, medical care, and hope.

Members of a family in Gaza looks at their destroyed home.
© UNICEF | Members of a family in Gaza looks at their destroyed home.

In a powerful statement, Tom Fletcher, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, condemned Israel’s decision to halt humanitarian assistance as a “cruel collective punishment” of the Palestinian population.

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02/05/2025

‘Millions Will Die from Funding Cuts’

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(UN News)* — Lifesaving operations everywhere continue to be shut down by sweeping funding cutbacks which will result in millions of people dying, the UN’s top aid official said on Wednesday [].

A mother and child attend a nutrition clinic in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
© WFP/Mohammad Hasib Hazinyar | A mother and child attend a nutrition clinic in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.

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