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FILE PHOTO: Girls carry dirty laundry in the town of Soroka in the Amhara region near the border with Tigray, Ethiopia, on November 9, 2020. REUTERS / Tiksa Negeri reuters_tickers
This content was published on Nov 12, 2020 – 06:44
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Aid agencies are unable to resupply food, health and other emergency supplies in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, where federal troops are fighting with local forces, the United Nations warned on Thursday.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed embarked on a military campaign against the regional rulers of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) last week after accusing them of attacking a federal military base.
Telephone lines to the region were still down, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said in its latest report on the crisis.
Aid groups were concerned about protecting children, women, the elderly and the disabled from the military clashes, UNOCHA said.
(Reporting by Giulia Paravicini; written by Duncan Miriri; edited by Kim Coghill)
