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The United Nations on Tuesday called for access to refugee camps in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, which suffer from food shortages, “which makes the risk of hunger and malnutrition more real.” The fighting forced tens of thousands of people to flee to other regions of Ethiopia or to cross the border into Sudan. The number of refugees is expected to reach 200,000 over the next six months, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced that the United Nations requested on Tuesday access to refugee camps in Tigray Region of EthiopiaYou have a shortage of food.
“Anxiety increases hour after hour,” UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch told a news conference in Geneva.
“It must be that the camps now suffer from a shortage of food products, which makes the risk of hunger and malnutrition more effective,” he added, noting that UNHCR had been warning about this for about a month.
He explained that UNHCR had received unconfirmed information that the Tigray refugee camps were the scene of “attacks, kidnappings and forced recruitment.”
For his part, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a campaign on 4 November against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which administers this northern region and challenges its authority.
And forced Fights Tens of thousands of people are fleeing to other regions of Ethiopia or to cross the border into Sudan.
The number of refugees could reach 200,000 over the next six months, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
On Friday, UNHCR expressed concern about the situation of civilians in the regional capital, Mekele, and the situation of 96,000 Eritrean refugees living in four camps in Tigray.
Humanitarian aid has stopped reaching these camps since the fighting began.
France 24 / AFP
