GENEVA, Switzerland — The World Health Organization (WHO) called Wednesday for a massive
influx of food and medicines into Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region following
the ceasefire deal, saying no aid had yet been allowed in.
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The WHO said
people in Tigray needed urgent assistance after two years of bloody conflict,
with access to the region severely restricted.
The conflict between
Ethiopian government forces and Tigrayan rebels has plunged Ethiopia’s
northernmost region into a severe humanitarian crisis.
WHO chief Tedros
Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed the breakthrough ceasefire agreement reached last
Wednesday but said it was already a week on “and nothing is moving in terms of
food aid or medicines.”
“You can imagine
that many people are dying from treatable diseases. Many people are dying from
starvation,” he told a press conference.
“Even in the
middle of fighting, civilians need food, need medicine. It cannot be a
condition.”
“Especially
after the ceasefire agreement, I was expecting that food and medicine would
just flow immediately. That’s not happening,” he said.
“Let’s give a
chance to peace. But we would also urge the immediate delivery of food and
medicine.”
Tedros is
himself from Tigray and was Ethiopia’s health and foreign minister.
He called for
the reopening of basic services such as banking and telecoms, and called for
journalists to be allowed into the region, “because everything that has
happened in the last two years has been done in total darkness and six million
people have been completely separated, shut off from the rest of the world as
if they don’t exist”.
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