Geneva, Dec 2 (AFP\/APP): The UN’s World Health Organization said Friday it still did not have unfettered access to bring humanitarian aid into Ethiopia’s war-torn northern Tigray region, one month after the ceasefire.<\/p>\n
Restoring aid deliveries to Tigray was a key part of an agreement signed on November 2 to end a two-year war that has killed untold numbers of people and unleashed a humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n
“That peace process has not yet resulted in the kinds of full access, unfettered access and the massive scale-up of medical and health assistance that the people of Tigray need,” WHO emergencies chief Michael Ryan told a press conference.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been a long time waiting to get access to these desperate people.”
\nThe region was isolated from the world for over a year, and faced severe shortages of medicines and limited access to electricity, banking and communications.<\/p>\n
“We are seeing some increase in access, in terms of getting some of our staff in. We’ve had a small allocation of fuel that will allow us to do some operations, and we’re starting to see a small trickle,” Ryan said, therefore “a tiny percentage of the need that’s there, potentially, we can meet.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Geneva, Dec 2 (AFP\/APP): The UN’s World Health Organization said Friday it still did not have unfettered access to bring humanitarian aid into Ethiopia’s war-torn northern Tigray region, one month after the ceasefire. Restoring aid deliveries to Tigray was a key part of an agreement […]<\/p>\n
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