sarah charles is the assistant administrative of u. s. a. i d 's bureau of humanitarian assistance. prior to her time at usa id is charles with a senior director for policy and advocacy for the international rescue committee. she also worked at the national security council and led the usa, i. d, 's, post our spring efforts to strengthen democracy, promote space for the democratic dialogue, and support stabilisation and encourage civic participation in the middle east. so without objection, all the witnesses prepared testimony will be made part of the record and now recognize the witnesses for 5 minutes each to summarize their testimony. and i'll start with ambassador rabbit. go to you now recognize. thank you mister chairman. mister chairman, ranking member, distinguished members of the committee. i appreciate the opportunity to discuss with you the dire situation and today, increasing inter communal and interethnic conflicts across the country are putting e c o p as unity and territorial integrity at risk. if the crisis continues to worsen

charles tells about the partner who was killed. sarah: first of all thank you for raising at it and want to send my condolences out to his colleagues into his family. the first time that we have lost a partner in tigray where it was clear that they've identified themselves as a humanitarian worker and we believe that they were targeted as such. and it really marks a quite concerning and tragic turn in the crisis. >> sometimes despite the best intention and the best ever, we cannot find the path forward to fixing situations that are so deep rooted in cultures that are not our own. but even we cannot make headway, sometimes in solving the seemingly problems, we do stand for american values by delivering humanitarian aid so the targeting of the humanitarian regards the one thing that we can do that shows that we care and we are there and we are consistent even if other efforts are not bearing fruit. that means the protection of humanitarian aid workers becomes paramount. when in your experience in your previous experience, what can we do to

sarah charles, the assistant to the administrator of usaid bureau for humanitarian assistance. prior to that ms. charles was a senior director for policy and advocacy for the international rescue committee where she led efforts to reform the humanitarian aid system and promote public to improve the lives of refugees and of the conflict affected people. her previous positions include several stands on a white house national security council including as director for humanitarian affairs, acting senior director of strategic planning, and before joining the nse ms. charles come at the middle east for usaid's office of transition initiatives. i'll come to both of you. thank you for the insights you have provided the committee. your full statements will be included in the record would ask you to summarize it in about five minutes so we can have a conversation with you, and ambassador, , you will be recognized first. please proceed. >> mr. chairman, ranking member, distinctness of the committee, thank you for the applicant speak with you today about ethiopia, a country with a rich hi

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