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Ethiopia: MSF seeks answers from government after new media report on killing of its staff
Statement
17 Mar 2022
Ethiopia
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) resumed activities in Ethiopia’s Amhara, Gambella, Somali and Tigray regions in 2022, while continuing to work in Afar and Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR)
Despite the lifting of government restrictions, insecurity and administrative barriers continued to hamper humanitarian access to the estimated 20 million people in need of assistance across Ethiopia in 2022. Although the two-year conflict in Tigray ended in November, thousands of people were killed or displaced by fighting across the country.
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In March 2022, we resumed healthcare services for South Sudanese refugees in Kule camp, Gambella region, and started to respond to malnutrition, cholera and measles in Somali region, an area badly affected by drought.
We also focused on malnutrition in Afar region, where we supported Dupti hospital, and ran mobile clinics and an inpatient centre providing care for malnutrition.
Throughout the year, our teams in SNNPR ran mobile clinics, and later, when conflict subsided, rehabilitated and supported health facilities.
In July, we reopened our project in Abdurafi, Amhara region, offering treatment for kala azar, a deadly tropical disease, and snakebites.
In northern and eastern Amhara, and northern Afar, we provided healthcare in conflict-affected communities through mobile clinics. We also donated medical supplies and rehabilitated looted and damaged health facilities. People we met described immense suffering, recounting personal stories of extreme violence, loss of livelihoods, homes and lands, and constant fear.
In November, we restarted our response in northwestern Tigray, supporting two healthcare facilities and running mobile clinics in rural areas, where health facilities and water infrastructure had been damaged or destroyed.
MSF continues to call for accountability for the death of our colleagues
On 24 June 2021, our colleagues María Hernández Matas, Tedros Gebremariam Gebremichael and Yohannes Halefom Reda were brutally and intentionally killed, while clearly identified as humanitarian workers, in Tigray. After extensive engagement with the Ethiopian authorities, we still do not have any credible answers regarding what happened to our colleagues. MSF will keep pursuing accountability for this incident, with the hope that this will help improve the safety of humanitarian workers in Ethiopia.
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ኢትዮጵያ፤ በትግራይ ለተገደሉት የኤምኤስኤፍ ባልደረቦች የሆኑትን ማሪያ፣ቴድሮስ እና ዮሃን በሚመለከት እስካሁን ምንም አይነት ሀላፊነት የወሰደ አልተገኘም።
Crisis Update
13 Jan 2022
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ኢትዮዽያ፡ ኣብ ትግራይ ናይ ዝተቐትሉ ሰራሕተኛታት ዶብ ኣልቦ ማሕበር ሓካይም ዝኾኑ ማሪያ: ቴድሮስ ከምኡውን ዮሃንስ ክሳብ ሕዚ ሓላፍነት ዝወሰደ የለን
Crisis Update
13 Jan 2022
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Ethiopia: Still no responsibility established for the killing of MSF colleagues María, Tedros and Yohannes in Tigray
Crisis Update
13 Jan 2022
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Forced suspension of majority of MSF activities, amid enormous needs in Ethiopia
Crisis Update
10 Sep 2021
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Correcting misinformation about the killings of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff in Tigray (Ethiopia)
Statement
18 Jul 2021