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WFP / ETHIOPIA EMERGENCY RESPONSE
STORY: WFP / ETHIOPIA EMERGENCY RESPONSE
TRT: 3:50
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21-30 AUGUST 2021, AFAR / TIGRAY, ETHIOPIA
24 AUGUST 2021, TIGRAY, ETHIOPIA
1. Driving shot, destroyed buses
2. Driving shot, destroyed tank
21 AUGUST 2021, TIGRAY, ETHIOPIA
3. Various shots, destroyed and looted WFP warehouse
4. Wide shot, people gathered to receive nutrition screening and support
5. Med shot, child being screened for malnutrition
6. Med shot, woman being screened for malnutrition
7. Close up, woman being screened for malnutrition
8. Close up, fortified food pouch
9. Various shots, people receiving nutrition support
10. Med shot, Letemariam bringing WFP food to her family
11. Various shots, Letemariam’s family
12. SOUNDBITE (Tigrinya) Letemariam, mother:
“I couldn’t sleep at night and think straight at day thinking about what to feed my kids. I still think about how to provide for my kids.”
13. Close up, Letemariam’s baby
23 AUGUST 2021, TIGRAY, ETHIOPIA
14. Wide shot, WFP food being loaded onto camels
15. Various shots, WFP food being transported by camel
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Satyen Tait, WFP Ethiopia:
“We don’t have any food stocks at the moment to plan with or to distribute. Whatever we have is currently being distributed or has already been distributed. So, what we are looking at going forward is a difficult situation for us to keep providing services for our communities here.”
30 AUGUST 2021, AFAR, ETHIOPIA
17. Wide shot, displaced persons gathered
18. Wide shot, family in plastic tent
19. Med shot, young girls
20. Wide shot, WFP aid being offloaded from trucks
21. Various shots, food aid being distributed
22. Various shots, Sadia preparing food
23. Wide shot, Sadia entering tent
24. SOUNDBITE (Amharic) Sadia, displaced mother:
“Oh, the whole journey was through the scorching sun and the thirst for drinking water was so agonizing. We were forced to drink rainwater from the ground, but that also made us sick.”
25. Various shots, Sadia and family eating split peas
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said it was responding immediately to the increasing needs and expanding emergency relief food assistance into Ethiopia’s Afar and Amhara regions.
WFP said up to seven million people are in dire need of food assistance in Northern Ethiopia. Conflict is intensifying in Afar and Amhara regions – pushing a further 1.7 million people into a hunger crisis, in addition to 5.2 million people in Tigray.
In Afar, over 100,000 people have been displaced by conflict so far and over half a million people are in urgent need of food assistance, according to the Government’s National Disaster Risk Management Committee (NDRMC). WFP said it was working with Federal and Afar Regional authorities to deliver emergency food assistance to over 530,000 people in Afar.
In Amhara, over 200,000 people have been displaced by the conflict so far and a million people are in urgent need of food assistance, according to the NDRMC. WFP said it was working with Federal and Amhara Regional authorities to deliver emergency food assistance to 250,000 people in North Gondar, initially, but is ready to reach more in Amhara where needed and if it receives additional funding.
A WFP convoy of over 100 trucks entered Tigray on Sunday (05 Sep), carrying 3,500 metric tons of food and other life-saving cargo – including fuel, health and shelter items on behalf of the humanitarian community. This is just a drop in the ocean though – we need 100 trucks arriving daily to meet the urgent food needs of at least 5.2 million people and avert the risk of famine.
The Programme said its food stocks in Tigray are running perilously low. Since mid-July, only 335 trucks have made it into the region, which is less than ten percent of the aid supply needed.
WFP said unless lifesaving supplies start flowing through a safe humanitarian corridor into Northern Ethiopia at the scale and pace needed, it and its partners will be forced to drastically reduce rations and in the worst case suspend activities for millions of people in need in Tigray, Amhara and Afar.
As insecurity persists and poor households exhaust food stocks during this peak hunger season, WFP said it fears people will edge closer towards a potential famine, unless it receives the funding and humanitarian corridor necessary to reach up to 4 million people it plans to support across Tigray, Afar and Amhara.
WFP said the food security of millions across Ethiopia is under threat due to an unprecedented funding gap for WFP operations in the country. It called for 140 million USD to expand its Northern Ethiopia response. Meanwhile, across the entire country, WFP urgently needs an additional 426 million USD to provide aid to 12 million people in 2021.
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