 ACT Alliance, EECMY/LWF Ethiopia In Ethiopia, a long-standing political disagreement between the federal government and the northern state of Tigray’s regional government led to an outbreak of hostilities in November of 2020. Related military action resulted in general insecurity, internal and external displacements, and disruption of livelihoods. An estimated 5.2 million people remain in need of humanitarian assistance; and as of January, approximately 495,000 people had been internally displaced in the region.
 Reunited at the airport, the Nsanzimfura family is joined by friends and extended family members. On the evening of August 15, 2019, Rutigerera Nsanzimfura landed at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. It was the 5th and final airport of a long journey--he had departed Kigali, Rwanda, 48 hours earlier. At age 27, the young man had spent 23 years of his life in a refugee camp there, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo with his family when he was just a boy.
 Photo: Miami Valley Long-Term Recovery Operations Group The nineteen tornadoes that struck Ohio on Memorial Day 2019 devastated thousands of lives, homes, and businesses. Over 7,000 homes were damaged and of these, over 1,500 had major damage or were destroyed. Over 1500 multifamily housing units were affected, dramatically limiting the availability of affordable rental housing, which was already scarce before the storms. Many of the tornado-impacted renters have had to relocate multiple times since the tornadoes due to substandard housing conditions or inflated rent.
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