Vicky Ford MP @vickyford@respublicae.eu
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Joined Apr 2022
RT @tariqahmadbt: As the 🇬🇧’s International PSVI Conference fast approaches it was brilliant to meet with the Friends of Gender Equality Group to discuss our plans for strengthening international efforts to respond to CRSV
#ForSurvivorsWithSurvivors #PSVI
RT @FCDOGovUK: Yesterday the UK sanctioned Iran for supplying Russia with drones used to attack Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
This is just the latest example of how Russia threatens Ukraine’s energy security.
The UK is helping countries reduce their dependency on Russia.
RT @UKinSomalia: 'With latrines constructed, my family & the community feel protected from sickness & other threats' -Naima
🇬🇧 working w/ @IOM_Somalia supported construction of 300 latrines in #Baidoa, ensuring access to sanitation facilities for 1,500 drought-affected families including Naima’s
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Last year the hospital used just 6 paediatric beds.
@MSF have just erected a tented extension to the hospital with 100 intensive beds for malnourished children. It’s nearly full already.
#UKAid has provided a much needed ambulance to @WHO for this hospital.
8/10
24 million people are affected by drought in Ethiopia - three times more than 6 months ago. The acceleration of the crisis was brought home when I visited the only hospital.
Many health facilities were destroyed when the conflict tipped into this region last year …
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.. but conflict and climate change means that many children become displaced when families are forced to move on. #UKAid has been helping @UNICEF with accelerated learning for those who have missed out. This clever solar radio can also be used to deliver tailored lessons.
6/10 To unlock opportunities education is needed, but one in four children in Afar drop out of school before end of year one. That’s of the children that even start school.
At a school near the main road I met kids desperate to learn…
5/10 Mothers told me they know the life of pastoralists is no longer possible. They want to find new livelihoods & new ways of living.
Afar has possibilities for new opportunities, but this needs long term investment - very challenging with war raging next door in Tigray.
4/10
@UNICEF funded by #UKAID give sachets to mothers of malnourished children. Nearly every child needed sachets.
The tiny one-a-day treatments of fortified peanut paste can be life savers. But only if there are not other complications - many also had coughs, prob pneumonia.
3/10
Before the drought this land was teeming with cattle, goats, camels etc. Pastoralists relied on their animals for food & income. Now the land is brown & most of the animals have died.
All they have is a weekly visit from a mobile health unit held under the only large tree
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We drove for two hours along a “dirt track” to reach an isolated community - but even that description is overly positive - if that was a “track” then my local country lane is a motorway.
There is nothing -no buildings, no communications.
The riverbed is dry.
Thread 1/10
I have just returned from Afar in eastern Ethiopia, a part of S&E Ethiopia, Somalia & N Kenya that has been decimated by climate change driven drought.
I am finding it hard to process what I witnessed or the magnitude and speed at which this tragedy is unfolding.
Delighted to meet 🇪🇹President @SahleWorkZewde in Addis today.
We spoke about the need for peace in Ethiopia to end awful effects of conflict especially on women and girls.
Pleased to see @Bankole_Adeoye again, to discuss the desperate humanitarian situation in the north of Ethiopia, which the UK and @_AfricanUnion are working flat out to resolve. Its time to put down the guns and to start peace talks immediately.
Good to meet @EthioHRC Chief Commissioner @DanielBekele. Very concerned by grave human rights situation in Ethiopia – which is still deteriorating. Especially concerned for women and girls in Tigray at this time
Back in Ethiopia with two priorities: conflict in the north & the drought.
As International Development Minister, look forward to seeing UK aid supporting the humanitarian responses but will also express UK’s deep concerns over renewed fighting. Ceasefire needed now.
Great meeting with His Excellency 🇬🇦 Minister of Foreign Affairs Adamo. Wide ranging discussion on #Commonwealth and UN Charter. Thanked him for Gabon’s continued leadership on #climate action.
RT @tariqahmadbt: Her Late Majesty The Queen & HM King Charles dono nay 🇵🇰 logon kay dard ko mehsoos kia kyunkay 🇵🇰 kay sath hamara rishta bohat gahra hai aur isi liye hum apko is haal main tanha nahee chorayngay
Delighted to welcome le #vertjaunebleu 💚💛💙 into the Commonwealth family at Marlborough House in London today with His Excellency President Ali Bongo.
RT @Conservatives: We are committed to long-term reforms and going for growth.
Delivering the strong and sustained growth that can transform the prosperity of our country for generations to come.
@Jeremy_Hunt 👇
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ MP for Chelmsford, 🇬🇧former Minister for Development & IMCO chair. 💙Children, Tech, Investment, Science, helping Women & the NHS 🏏🎣
Joined Apr 2022
