{"id":3947,"date":"2020-12-05T02:57:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T02:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2020-12-05T02:57:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T02:57:37","slug":"ethiopias-unfolding-humanitarian-crisis-explained-by-top-aid-official-jan-egeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3947","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia\u2019s unfolding humanitarian crisis, explained by top aid official Jan Egeland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;firsthand accounts of violence have been trickling out from the tens of thousands of refugees who have fled across the border to Sudan \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/en-us\/ethiopia-tigray-emergency.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an average of 3,000<\/a>&nbsp;per day, according to the United Nations high commissioner for refugees. The humanitarian situation within Tigray is also worrisome: Some 100,000 Eritreans who live in longstanding refugee camps in the region have been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/international-news-eritrea-abiy-ahmed-ethiopia-united-nations-344e7156295eb1801f9441a9359c2dab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cut off from food and other aid<\/a>&nbsp;for weeks due to the fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a refugee and humanitarian crisis unfolding in real time, amid a pandemic and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justsecurity.org\/73564\/ethiopias-tigray-crisis-escalating-violence-and-mass-displacement-threaten-ethiopian-and-regional-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a hunger crisis<\/a>&nbsp;exacerbated by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/united-nations-funding-famine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">drought<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/nov\/16\/war-ethiopia-locust-swarm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">locusts<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22104666\/ethiopia-conflict-refugees-sudan-nrc-jan-egeland\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22104666\/ethiopia-conflict-refugees-sudan-nrc-jan-egeland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;firsthand accounts of violence have been trickling out from the tens of thousands of refugees who have fled across the border to Sudan \u2014 an average of 3,000 per day, according to the United Nations high commissioner for refugees. The humanitarian situation within Tigray is also worrisome: Some 100,000 Eritreans who live in longstanding refugee camps in the region have been cut off from food and other aid for weeks due to the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>This is a refugee and humanitarian crisis unfolding in real time, amid a pandemic and a hunger crisis exacerbated by drought and locusts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,1093,232,158],"class_list":["post-3947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-ethiopia","tag-refugees","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}