‘More than 2 million children’ cut off from aid in Tigray
The UN says more than two million children in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are cut off from humanitarian assistance as violence continues.
Despite agreements with the Ethiopian government, humanitarian agencies have complained that they are being prevented from travelling to Tigray where the military has been fighting regional government forces since early November.
The UN’s children’s agency, Unicef, says the longer access is delayed, the worse the situation will become for children urgently in need of assistance. It has called for full access.
Earlier this month soldiers shot at a UN team in Tigray. The government said the UN staff did not have permission to travel there and accused them of driving through roadblocks.
