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World Food Programme says it will ‘scale up’ operations in embattled region after reaching deal with Addis Ababa.
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World Food Programme says it will ‘scale up’ operations in embattled region after reaching deal with Addis Ababa.
NAIROBI: Life for civilians in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region has become extremely alarming as hunger grows ...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a call with Ethiopia’s prime minister on Thursday expressed “grave concern” about the crisis in the embattled Tigray region and urged “immediate, full and unhindered humanitarian access to prevent further loss of life,” a U.S. spokesman said. There was no immediate comment from Ethiopian officials. The call is the latest this week that world leaders have held with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as Ethiopia faces growing pressure to open Tigray to journalists, independent investigators and far more humanitarian aid. The Ti...
Cara Anna FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020 file photo, a Tigray woman who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, holds her malnourished and severely dehydrated baby as nurses give him IV fluids, at the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic, at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan. Life for civilians in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region has become "extremely alarming" as hunger grows and fighting remains an obstacle to reaching millions of people with aid, the United Nations said in a new report released late Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-...
Associated Press Map locates key cities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Millions of Tigray residents, still largely cut off from the world, live in fear of Eritrean soldiers. (AP graphic) NAIROBI, Kenya — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a call with Ethiopia’s prime minister on Thursday expressed “grave concern” about the crisis in the embattled Tigray region and urged “immediate, full and unhindered humanitarian access to prevent further loss of life,” a U.S. spokesman said. There was no immediate comment from Ethiopian officials. The call is the latest this week that wor...