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The United Nations says shortages have become “very critical” in Ethiopia’s beleaguered Tigray region, as its population of 6 million remains isolated and its capital under threat of attack by Ethiopian forces seeking to arrest the leaders. regional.
Fuel and cash are running out, more than 1 million people are displaced and food for nearly 100,000 Eritrean refugees will disappear within a week, according to a new report released overnight. And more than 600,000 people who depend on monthly food rations have not received them this month.
Travel blockades are so severe that even within Tigray’s capital Mekele, the UN World Food Program cannot gain access to transport food from its warehouses there.
Communications and travel links with the Tigray region have been cut since the deadly conflict broke out on November 4, and now Human Rights Watch is warning that “actions that deliberately impede aid supplies” violate international humanitarian law.
