Ethiopia — humanitarian situation

Ethiopia continues to grapple with access constraints and infrastructure challenges stemming from past conflict and ongoing insecurity. Data collection at the Kurmuk Flow Monitoring Point has been interrupted since 3 February 2026 due to insecurity in the border area IOM. In Tigray, communities continue to face displacement and damaged services four years after the conflict ended under the November 2022 Pretoria agreement, with limited access to healthcare remaining a significant challenge MSF. The Logistics Cluster reports that access challenges, damaged infrastructure, and transport limitations persist across operational areas, requiring coordinated road transport services to maintain humanitarian operations WFP. The operational response continues across multiple regions. The Logistics Cluster transported 731 cubic metres of humanitarian cargo to partners operating in Amhara, Tigray, and Oromia regions during July 2026, with an additional 613 cubic metres of cargo facilitated through convoy operations WFP. The Cluster maintains four operational hubs in Addis Ababa, Adama, Bahir Dar, and Mekelle to support common logistics services and coordination. Maiani General Hospital in Tigray, which serves approximately 250,000 people in Sheraro and surrounding communities, receives support from MSF following severe damage sustained during the conflict; MSF began supporting the facility in December 2024 MSF. Population movements remain significant at border points. Flow monitoring activities identified 43,950 movements in February, 39,613 in March, and 35,447 in April 2026 across Ethiopia's land border crossing points IOM. UNHCR continues to track refugee populations, registered refugees by location, asylum-seekers, and population movements from Sudan to Ethiopia, as well as internal displacement statistics as of July 2026. Climate resilience programming is expanding, with EIB Global providing a grant of up to €4 million to WFP to support the development and rollout of tailored climate-risk insurance products for smallholder farmers in Ethiopia, marking the first climate-risk insurance project backed by EIB WFP.