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HUMANITARIAN SITUATION UPDATE
Flood . . .
Heavy rains on 13 and 14 September also caused
new flooding in Gambella Zuria, Lare and Itang woredas of Gambella
region. The regional Disaster Preparedness and Food Security
office (DPFS) conducted a preliminary assessment of Gambella Zuria
on 15 August and is in process of updating information on the
impact of flooding in Lare and Itang. The road to Lare has been
cut off as a result of the flooding this week. However, repairs to
reopen the road are ongoing. DRMFSS provided food and non-food
items including 150 quintals of rice, 50 quintals of corn-soya-blend,
25 quintals of biscuits, plastic plates and cooking pots.
Overall, the regions most affected by flooding
since August remain Amhara and Afar; some parts of Oromia, Tigray
and SNNPR have also been affected. According to DRMFSS, some
50,755 flood-induced internally displaced persons (IDPs) have
received food assistance and 86,752 flood-affected people have
benefitted from shelter and non-food items. DRMFSS has provided
seeds to Tigray and SNNPR, as well as support to rehabilitate
infrastructure damaged by flooding in Tigray. For more
information, contact:
ocha-eth@un.org
or
kmcdonald@unicef.org.
Nutrition. . .
The nutrition cluster has also conducted a rapid assessment of the
impact of flooding on provision of existing TFP services in
affected woredas of Afar, Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, Somali and Tigray,
noting that TFP services were interrupted in two woredas (Dalifage
and Telalake) of Afar, where 12 TFP sites supported by Save the
Children US are operating. In Amhara, TFP services at 4 of the 35
TFPs in Kobo woreda were temporarily affected, and one TFP in
Artuma Fursi stopped providing services. TFP services were not
interrupted in Tigray and SNNPR. In Oromia, one of the 15 TFP
sites in Fedia woreda temporarily suspended its services. The
nutrition cluster recommends that blanket supplementary feeding be
provided to all children under five years and pregnant and
lactating women in flood-affected woredas of Afar to mitigate
potential deterioration in the nutrition situation. The cluster
also recommends that management of severe acute malnutrition be
strengthened in all flood-affected woredas. For more information,
contact: isaackm@dppc.gov.et
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