The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of 2,400 mt of rice from the Government of the Republic of Korea, valued at USD 2.9 million that will support food assistance for 100,000 refugees and vulnerable host communities in Ethiopia.
Ethiopia hosts more than one million refugees and asylum-seekers, mainly from neighbouring Eritrea, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. Women and children make up nearly 80 percent of the refugee population, and many rely entirely on humanitarian assistance to meet their basic food needs. In refugee-hosting areas, local communities share already limited resources and services, while the lingering effects of recent droughts continue to strain livelihoods and drive humanitarian needs.
The contribution will help WFP maintain food assistance for refugees while supporting communities that continue to host people forced to flee conflict and insecurity in neighbouring countries.
