CNN also reported that The UN World Food Programme stated that the “outbreak of conflict coincided with (Ethiopia’s) peak harvest season, meaning employment and incomes were lost, markets were disrupted, food prices rose, and access to cash and fuel became very difficult.”
The Ethiopian government estimated that 4.5 million people need “life-saving” assistance through late this year, the UN reported.
This isn’t the first time that the “Blinding Lights” singer has donated to a humanitarian cause. In June 2020, he donated $1 million to COVID-19 relief, giving $500,000 each to MusiCares and the front-line hospital workers of Scarborough Health Network in his hometown in Canada.
The Weeknd also gifted another $500 thousand to Black Lives Matter, National Bailout and Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights camp last summer.
