CRISIS IN TIGRAY: DISPLACED IN MEKELLE

UPDATES FROM THE FIELD 

 HADNET secondary school, one of many schools in Mekelle, Ethiopia, that are now camps for displaced families IDPs April 2021 (ASC Ethiopia)

African Services Committee supports Internally Displaced People IDPs, in Ethiopia's Tigray region. Hadnet school, now May Woyni IDPs center, is one of 26 camps in the city of Mekelle, where 200,000 people are displaced according to Regional State of Tigray Interim Administration Bureau of Labor and Social Affairs. Across Tigray, about 2 million people have been forced to flee their homes since last November. 

African Services Committee, through its clinic in Mekelle, assists MAY WOYNI IDP center, by providing essential aid to more than 7000 displaced in this center, affected by the conflict. 

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ASC turns 40!

40 years ago, African Services Committee started in a Bronx basement apartment by Ashafa Hadera, an Ethiopian refugee who gave a helping hand to other African newcomers. Fast forward today, our Harlem based NGO has expanded to serve over 12,000 people every year in New York City and Ethiopia. African Services Committee reflects on 40 years of accomplishments and shares stories of what has not changed: our commitment to assist immigrants, refugees and asylees from across the African and Caribbean Diaspora and beyond, in establishing themselves and finding community. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin for more updates. 

 

The Humanitarian Crisis in Tigray, Ethiopia

Statement by Asfaha Hadera, Founder of African Services Committee

The dire circumstances that led to the 1996 genocide in Rwanda are rapidly emerging in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Since early November 2020, the Ethiopian government,  led by the Prime Minister (PM) and aided by Eritrea government troops, Somalia, and the United Arab Emirates, have waged a military campaign against the people of Tigray region. This is my ethnic group, and it is making it difficult for me to be proud to be an Ethiopian. What is happening to my people is totally unacceptable. Ethiopia's PM, Abeyi Ahmed, in contrast to the platform given him by the Nobel Peace Prize awarded him in 2019, is in no position to claim moral authority on any world stage to preach about law and order, democracy and democratization and good governance. He has lost all credibility on that front.

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