Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:19:02 +0200https://english.radio.cz/people-need-finds-six-thousand-starving-refugees-ethiopia-8561378© 2026 Radio Prague International The Czech charity organisation People in Need working in south-eastern Ethiopia has found a group of roughly six thousand people suffering from hunger and malnourishment. Known for working in remote areas, the organisation was near the Somali border looking into the state of a group of local herdsmen whose cattle had died out and found that they had been joined by several thousand drought refugees from neighbouring Somalia. Local communities have been trying to care for the refugees so far, but their material support - water, food and firewood – is quickly running out, children are dying on a weekly basis, and the group has not yet even received refugee status by the Ethiopian government. Earlier today I spoke by phone with People in Need’s coordinator Marek Štys, who is currently in the Somali region of Ethiopia and described the situation. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/clovekvtisni_somalci1.jpg?timestamp=1591236306 https://english.radio.cz/people-need-finds-six-thousand-starving-refugees-ethiopia-8561378 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9