Brussels, 17/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission released two aids from the European Community Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO):
- An aid of EUR 3.29 million targeted at the population most affected by the drought in South-eastern Ethiopia. This payment joins that EUR 2 million released by ECHO in April and a food aid of 432,500 tons of grain delivered this year to Ethiopia. The new ECHO aid will enable the Red Cross and the NGOs Action contre la Faim and Save the Children, to provide basic medical and food aid to the people from Ethiopia's seven regions.
- Aid of EUR 1 million will finance the assistance to refugees from Angola, Namibia and Zambia. In Namibia, that has between 10,000 and 15,000 Angolan refugees, Community aid will enable the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), to provide transport and shelters in the Osire camps and for the Red Cross to ensure water provisions. In Zambia, where roughly 200,00 Angolan refugees are staying, the Community assistance will finance the administration of the Namgweshi camps by the HCR, the establishing of transports by international organisations for migration, as well as medical aid by the Medecine sans Frontieres NGO.
