Ethiopia – Tigray Conflict Fact Sheet #8 Fiscal Year (FY) 2021

SITUATION AT A GLANCE

6 MILLION Estimated Population of Tigray Region
GoE – 2017

5.2 MILLION People in Tigray Requiring Humanitarian Assistance
UN – May 2021

2 MILLION People Displaced by the Crisis Within Tigray
UN – May 2020

63,000 Ethiopian Refugees Arriving in Eastern Sudan Since November
UNHCR – April 2021

• ERC Lowcock has warned of the risk of famine in Tigray without an immediate scale up of humanitarian assistance. USAID food security analysts estimate approximately 1.25 million people are experiencing Emergency levels of acute food insecurity, including 250,000 people potentially facing Catastrophe conditions as of May 25.
• Ongoing hostilities have resulted in at least nine humanitarian workers’ deaths in Tigray since November and continue to disrupt relief operations.
• Insecurity and resulting displacement have led to increased protection risks for at-risk groups, while GBV cases likely continue to be underreported.
• The USG continues high-level advocacy efforts, including a visit by SE Feltman to the region.

Source: US Agency for International Development

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Desert Locust Bulletin 512 (3 June 2021)

Hatching and band formation in Ethiopia and Somalia

Despite an earlier decline, the current upsurge prevails in the Horn of Africa where good rains allowed breeding to continue with hatching and more hopper bands forming in eastern Ethiopia and northern Somalia during May. In addition to aerial operations, ground survey and control teams will play an important role in fi nding and reducing hopper band infestations before they fl edge and form a new generation of immature swarms from late June onwards, which are expected to move to the Afar region in northeast Ethiopia for summer breeding in August and September.
Hopper bands declined in the northern interior of Saudi Arabia due to control and drying conditions. Nevertheless, immature adult groups and perhaps a few small swarms could form and move south to the interior of Yemen where conditions are favourable for breeding. Control operations were undertaken in parts of Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon against hoppers that hatched and formed small groups and bands as a result of earlier breeding by adult groups and small swarms that arrived in April. Although control operations continued in southwest Iran against hopper groups, a few small groups of immature adults could form and move east to the Indo/Pakistan border where small scale breeding is likely to commence with the onset of the monsoon. Once the summer rains begin, small-scale breeding is expected to occur in the Sahel of West Africa and Sudan from July onwards.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations