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Today, the United States has announced additional humanitarian aid of $ 170 million to support the people of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, many of whom have left their homes because of the 39 escalation of conflicts or natural disasters and are facing severe food insecurity. result. This additional funding brings the total US humanitarian contribution to Ethiopia to more than $ 802 million since October 2016.
New funding includes emergency food and nutrition badistance, vital medical care, shelter and drinking water, as well as programs. improve sanitation and hygiene programs to treat and stop the spread of preventable diseases. This badistance will provide vital humanitarian badistance to millions of Ethiopians and refugees seeking shelter in Ethiopia.
An estimated 8.5 million people in Ethiopia need urgent humanitarian badistance, a situation compounded by insecurity and mbadive displacement along the region's border of Oromiya and the nations and nationalities of the South. The number of displaced people along West Guji and Gedeo areas has risen to nearly one million since April. This newly displaced population adds to the 1.6 million Ethiopians displaced from their homes by conflict or drought and who need immediate and vital humanitarian badistance.
The United States, the largest donor of humanitarian aid in Ethiopia, requests additional contributions from the Government of Ethiopia and other donors to meet the needs of vulnerable Ethiopians
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of the United States. United States Agency for International Development (USAID) .Media 
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