Recommendation 24

Ethiopia had significant humanitarian needs before the conflict started in Tigray. The desert locust invasion,50 recurrent floods and droughts, and the socioeconomic impact of covid-19 were driving humanitarian needs in Ethiopia.51 The pandemic and the measures to contain it have worsened a dire humanitarian situation, and an estimated 2.4 million jobs have been lost in the country.52 Over half of Ethiopia’s population of nearly 104 million people are children.53 Ethiopia is home to 177,996 Eritrean refugees, around 22% of its total refugee population of 801,349.54 The humanitarian situation in Tigray