Ethiopian government’s NGO restriction “baseless”

• NGO intervention face restrictions as government suffers grave shortfalls

The Ethiopian government has moved to place restrictions on aid intervention, consolidating a bill passed early this year limiting funding for Non-governmental organisations (NGOs). NGO’s involved in aid relief programmes are expected to work within the confines of situational reports provided by the government. This comes as Ethiopia experiences a sharp rise in aid beneficiaries.

“Faced with the harsh and restrictive government action, the number of the aid beneficiaries in the country has risen in a backdrop of increasing numbers of malnourished children,” a local aid worker, who requested anonymity, said. (read more)