Ethiopia: Red Cross helps displaced people

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Ethiopian Red Cross Society will begin providing relief to 100,000 displaced people in Kochere district, Gedeo district, as a result of inter-communal clashes in the country. south of Ethiopia. the areas of Gedeo and West Guji have triggered, causing a humanitarian crisis that is rapidly worsening and in which nearly one million people are forcibly displaced from their homes. IDPs do not have food, clean water, shelter or other necessities.

The help of both humanitarian agencies includes the supply of drugs and medical supplies to local clinics as well as water tanks, tarpaulins and others "This crisis is completely ignored by the international community and the consequences of this negligence could be disastrous, "said Shirin Hanafieh, head of the ICRC evaluation team.