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ECHO helps displaced people

    NAIROBI

    The European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) has donated US $4.2 million to provide emergency food aid to over 300,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) and returnees affected by the border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea. The money will be used by World Food Programme (WFP) to purchase locally more than 11,000 mt of sorghum for IDPs and returnees living in the northern region of Tigray, northern Ethiopia. Benedict Gultang, WFP deputy country director in Ethiopia, said that as IDPs began returning to their places of origin, they would “continue to need our assistance until they are able to harvest their first crops”. WFP said in a statement that the contribution would provide all the cereal required until the end of October. A representative from ECHO said the assistance was unlikely to be needed beyond November as the IDPs were resuming farming activities.

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