More aid agencies – including three medical organisations – have been approved to operate in the troubled Somali region of Ethiopia, according to IRINnews.
Mercy Corps, International Medical Corps and Médecins Sans Frontières Switzerland, as well as Italian agency Coopi, Mother and Child Development Organization and German Agro Action, have been accredited by the government’s Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency (DPPA).
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– The NGOs will address the humanitarian needs in the region, DPPA spokesman Sisay Tadesse said.
– Their humanitarian intervention focuses on health, water, agriculture and livestock, he added.
Earlier in November, the DPPA allowed 12 NGOs to deploy staff in the Degehabur, Gode, Fik, Warder and Korahe areas of the region.
Aid agencies and human rights groups have expressed concerns over the situation in the remote, arid and conflict-hit area, saying the conflict has had a direct and indirect humanitarian impact on the civilian population.
The area borders Somalia where government troops clash with the rebel Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)
