The African Union (AU) told the Ethiopian government to enhance delivery of humanitarian works to ensure adequate food supply and other essential goods to people in the Northern Tigray region
· The region has been under severe stress for the last 10 months or so
· Reports indicate that at least 400,000 people are living in near-starvation conditions in Tigray
The African Union (AU) told the Ethiopian government to enhance delivery of humanitarian works to ensure adequate food supply and other essential goods to people in the Northern Tigray region. The region has been under severe stress for the last 10 months or so.
AU Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security Bankole Adeoye said that women and children (must) not continue to be victims of a conflict that is not of their own making and added that the Ethiopian government has been doing its best, but there was a need to scale up the works.
Reports indicate that at least 400,000 people are living in near-starvation conditions in Tigray. In recent months, the fighting and humanitarian crisis has spread to the neighboring regions of Afar and Amhara. Close to 1.7 million people are now facing hunger.
The UN has warned of a “de facto blockade” that poses the risk of “famine and high levels of mortality”. Ethiopian authorities and pro-TPLF rebels accuse each other of obstructing the delivery of aid and starving the population. Abiy Ahmed assured that the government was working to facilitate access. He also pointed out that the violent behavior and violent nature of the TPLF is making (things) very difficult for humanitarian actors. Abiy Ahmed did not respond positively to calls from the pan-African organization’s envoys for talks with the tiger leaders since the conflict began; sticking to his line that it is a “law and operation
