The United States and the European Union yesterday issued an urgent call for action in the fight against hunger.
The United Nations (UN) has once again warned of the danger posed by tens of thousands of children in Ethiopia’s Tigray province. The area is suffering from famine and about 30,000 children are suffering from malnutrition.
“Without humanitarian access to increase our aid, some 30,000 children suffering from severe malnutrition in these extremely inaccessible areas are at high risk of dying,” said James Elder, a spokesman for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Geneva. Unicef).
UN humanitarian agencies warned on Thursday that thousands of people in Tigray needed food aid, 350,000 of whom were at risk of starvation, and denounced the blocking of aid by “armed groups”.
The United States and the European Union yesterday issued an urgent call for action in the fight against famine, on the eve of the G7 summit in Britain.
Ethiopian Federal Prime Minister Abi Ahmed announced on November 4 that he had ordered the federal army to intervene in Tigray to capture and disarm the leadership of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). forces. The TPLF, at the helm of the province until then, was practically in conflict with the central government after losing power at the federal level three years earlier.
Abby, winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, promised a swift campaign, but almost six months after the federal army captured the regional capital of Mecca, fighting continues in Tigray, where critical humanitarian situation raises international concern.
