ADDIS ABABA, July 26 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has allocated 44.7 million U.S. dollars to combat drought that has led 7.8 million people in need of food aid in Ethiopia.
The money is to be utilized under Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund (EHF) that addresses the critical needs of drought affected people said a statement by OCHA on Wednesday.
The 44.7 million U.S. dollars fund will be mainly used to enhance technical capacity of government monitors and health staff to deal especially with Diarrhea outbreak in drought affected areas of Oromia, Somali and Southern regional state.
Part of the fund will also be set aside for agricultural works, education, and emergency shelter and water trucking services to drought affected sites.
Although Ethiopia has posted impressive economic growth and development over the last decade increasing population standing at about 100 million, land degradation and climate change has rendered millions of Ethiopians chronically food insecure annually.
