Nearly five million items of personal protective equipment (PPE) were delivered to Ethiopia by the EU, on Tuesday 1 September, to support the eight countries that make up the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) bloc, in their fight against the coronavirus, the European Commission announced on Tuesday evening.
This includes Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.
The shipment, part of the EU's global response to the pandemic, contained 3.5...