Africa-Press Ethiopia
Some transportation lines in northern Ethiopia’s troubled Tigray region have partially reopened, and about 25,000 Eritrean refugees sheltering in two camps have received food aid for the first time since mid-October, the United Nations announced Monday.
A convoy of 18 trucks delivered nearly 500 metric tons of corn soya blend, grains, pulses and vegetable oil for distribution to Eritrean refugees in the Mai Ayni and Adi Harush refugee camps by the UN World Food Program and other humanitarian groups, the agency said.
“Families, women, men, children — even newborns — have been cut off from supplies and essential services for many weeks, so this distribution was urgently needed,” Ann Encontre, Ethiopian spokeswoman for the United Nations Refugee Agency, said in a statement.
The Tigray region was attacked in November by federal Ethiopian forces under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in an attempt to oust the leaders of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
