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Although humanitarian cargo movements within Tigray are improving substantially, the deployment of critical personnel and requests for increases submitted to the Ethiopian federal government have been pending authorization for several weeks, OCHA said.
Overall, the humanitarian situation in Tigray is increasingly dire, with reports of fighting, human rights violations and abuses, and increasing hunger and malnutrition affecting hundreds of thousands of people. Most of them have not received any assistance to date, he said.
OCHA said a deputy humanitarian coordinator, Wafaa Saeed, along with four other OCHA staff members, were dispatched to Tigray’s capital, Mekelle.
They are now working closely with aid organizations and local authorities in Tigray to carry out assessments and coordinate humanitarian response for people affected by the ongoing conflict. Meanwhile, UN aid workers arrived in Shire, where they delivered food assistance.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) regained access last week to two refugee camps in Tigray. This is the first time in two months since the fighting forced humanitarian workers to withdraw from the region, Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, said on Tuesday.
UNHCR led the first humanitarian mission since November to the Mai Aini and Adi Harush camps. Eritrean refugees were found in desperate need of supplies and services.
Ethiopian authorities granted single access to the agency to assess needs in the camps, the spokesman said.
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