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In Ethiopia, the ICRC supports conflict and violence-affected people with food and essential items, helps to establish livelihoods and incomes, builds and maintains water-supply systems, provides health structure with medical supplies, visits detainees, reunites separated families due to conflict, provides physical rehabilitation and promotes IHL. For many of these activities, we work closely with the Ethiopian Red Cross.
Our delegation to the African Union highlights humanitarian issues, promotes IHL throughout Africa and raises awareness of the ICRC's work on the continent.
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In numbers
In 2022
- 36,400detainees provided with assistance.
- 4,095,000people in urban and rural areas as well as places of detention benefited from improved/ rehabilitated water facilities.
- 260,000phone calls and oral messages facilitated between family members separated by conflict and violence.
- 11,400people provided with physiotherapy and mobility services.
- 1700people from local and regional authorities, community and religious leaders, journalists sensitised to IHL and the mandate and activities of the ICRC/ERCS.
- 420,900people provided with seeds or cash for agro activities.
- 178,000people provided with essential households.
- 45ERCS branches provided with different supports, including refilling of First-Aid kits.