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ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) – An Ethiopian official said Thursday that his country formed a fact-finding mission to assess the humanitarian situation in the northern regional state of Tigray.
Speaking to reporters, Redwan Hussein, spokesman for a working group on the newly established state of emergency for the Tigray conflict, said that two fact-finding missions have been set up to assess the humanitarian situation in Tigray.
“Two groups of fact-finding missions will go and assess situations on the ground in Tigray,” Hussein said.
“One fact-finding mission will start from West Tigray, the other will start from East and South Tigray, so we are going to find out which ways are easier to supply food and medical items,” he added.
“We are planning to convince and bring back our compatriots from Sudan and preparations are underway here. We are requesting resources and building warehouses, so that food and medical supplies are properly disposed of,” he said.
On Thursday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN Refugee Agency, said the number of Ethiopian refugees fleeing to neighboring Sudan exceeded 31,000 amid ongoing fighting between the Ethiopian federal government and the northern regional state of Tigray.
Since November 4, the Ethiopian government has been conducting military operations against the TPLF, the ruling party in Ethiopia’s northernmost Tigray region, and now in an official war against the federal government that followed the reported attack by the TPLF. against the northern command of the Ethiopian Defense Force, a division that has been stationed in the region for more than two decades.
The Ethiopian government has been blaming the TPLF, which was one of the four fronts of the coalition of Ethiopia’s former ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), for planning various acts of treason in different parts of the country with the general objective of destabilizing the country. East African country.
Three of the four former members of the EPRDF coalition had joined other regional parties last year to establish the Party of Prosperity, as the TPLF refused to join.
The growing differences between the federal government and the TPLF were exacerbated in September this year, when the Tigray regional government decided to go ahead with the planned regional elections, which the Ethiopian parliament had previously postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Final product
