{"id":1120,"date":"2026-07-10T03:34:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T03:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2026-07-10T03:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T03:34:03","slug":"unhcr-commends-ethiopias-refugee-efforts-appeals-for-international-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/unhcr-commends-ethiopias-refugee-efforts-appeals-for-international-support\/","title":{"rendered":"UNHCR Commends Ethiopia’s Refugee Efforts, Appeals for International Support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Addis Ababa:<\/strong> The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representative to Ethiopia, Aissatou M. Ndiaye, has visited refugee camps in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, where more than 30,000 refugees from neighboring Sudan and Eritrea are being hosted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her visit to Gondar, Ndiaye said Ethiopia has made significant efforts to host and protect refugees despite facing its own challenges, adding that greater international support is needed to sustain the response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Government of Ethiopia has done what it can, and it is now up to the international community to provide greater support,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ndiaye also praised Ethiopia’s hospitality toward refugees and commended the government’s “Makatet” initiative, an inclusion strategy aimed at improving refugees’ access to public services and opportunities within host communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the visit, the UNHCR representative held discussions with zonal and woreda officials as well as refugees to assess conditions and ongoing humanitarian needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to UNHCR, Ethiopia remains Africa’s largest refugee hosting country, sheltering more than one million refugees and asylum seekers from neighboring Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan and Somalia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country currently hosts refugees in 24 camps across five regional states, alongside an increasing number of refugees living in urban and integrated community settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Addis Ababa: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representative to Ethiopia, Aissatou M. Ndiaye, has visited refugee camps in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, where more than 30,000 refugees from neighboring Sudan and Eritrea are being hosted. During her visit to Gondar, Ndiaye said Ethiopia has made significant efforts to host and protect refugees despite facing its own challenges, adding that greater international support is needed to sustain the response. “The Government of Ethiopia has done what it can, and it is now up to the international community to provide greater support,” she said. Ndiaye also praised Ethiopia’s hospitality toward refugees and commended the government’s “Makatet” initiative, an inclusion strategy aimed at improving refugees’ access to public services and opportunities within host communities. As part of the visit, the UNHCR representative held discussions with zonal and woreda officials as well as refugees to assess conditions and ongoing humanitarian needs. According to UNHCR, Ethiopia remains Africa’s largest refugee hosting country, sheltering more than one million refugees and asylum seekers from neighboring Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan and Somalia. The country currently hosts refugees in 24 camps across five regional states, alongside an increasing number of refugees living in urban and integrated community settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[84,55,83,82,81],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-social","tag-east-africa","tag-ethiopia","tag-horn-of-africa","tag-refugees","tag-uhcr"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}