Ethiopia

The Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP) activations on Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) in the Horn of Africa in 2023-2024 worked to address high levels of food insecurity, malnutrition and acute water stress as well as associated public health risks, gender-based violence and protection risks from prolonged drought, flooding, conflict and displacement.

After two years of devastating conflict, the 2 November 2022 African Union-brokered peace agreement offers the Ethiopian people an opportunity to achieve enduring and lasting peace.

We support the stability, unity and territorial integrity of Ethiopia. We look forward to working with the African Union’s High Representative for the Horn of Africa and with the United Nations in efforts to cease hostilities, end impunity and support a lasting solution to issues of peace and security.

Australia is deeply concerned at reports of airstrikes on the Tigray capital, Mekelle, and the escalation of conflict in northern Ethiopia.  Australia condemns the ongoing fighting, use of sexual violence and severe restrictions on humanitarian access.