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Ethiopia - Tigray Region Humanitarian Update Situation Report, 8 March 2021
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The Prime Minister, on 3 March, announced that aid agencies can operate in the region by providing a notification to the Ministry of Peace.
Following this significant development, organizations have begun notifying the Ministry, and the humanitarian community is working to urgently improve access to rural areas.
Violence and lack of assistance in rural areas continue to drive displacement of people searching for safety and aid in the main towns across Tigray.
Partners continue to receive reports of looting and grave violence against civilians, including extrajudicial killing, rapes and other forms of gender-based violence.
Anger and collective trauma scar Ethiopia s Tigray region
The conflict in Tigray, the northern region of Ethiopia, has mostly been unfolding under a media blackout since early November. Thousands of civilians have likely died as a result of the crisis.
The humanitarian crisis in Mekela, the Tigray capital, is worsening
They were sobbing silently, waiting for their turn at the end of a dark corridor a dozen petrified women, seeking medical check-ups in Adigrat s hospital after having been raped. None of them was willing to utter more than a few words.
Every day, Eritrean soldiers come to take medical equipment. Patients and doctors are terrified. They come here every day, even two times per day, explained a general practitioner, who wished to remain anonymous. Yesterday, they stole a stretcher. When they come, not only the patients, but also the staff run away. The treatments get interrupted.
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