08/11/2022 Etiopia (Ethiopia)
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By Tommy Wilkes and Ayenat Mersie
NAIROBI (Reuters) -The United Nations is hopeful it can resume aid deliveries into Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region “in days” following a truce agreed between combatants, but some remote areas remain off-limits, the head of its humanitarian office (OCHA) for Ethiopia said on Friday. Ethiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the party that controls most of the region, agreed on Wednesday a “permanent cessation of hostilities”. That followed two years of war that has killed thousands, displaced millions and left half of Tigray’s 5.5 million people in severe need of food. The United Nations says it has effectively been blocked from sending in aid since violence erupted anew in August, ending a previous ceasefire. The federal government has repeatedly denied blocking aid. U.N. agencies have been talking to federal and Tigrayan authorities since late October about resuming aid convoys into Tigray and those conversations have intensified since the truce, said Michel Saad, the head of the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for Ethiopia. “So far we are getting feedback and good assurances but we are still waiting for the final go-ahead,” Saad told Reuters during a telephone interview. “We are making progress, some small steps but in the right direction,” he said. “I’m hopeful it’s going to be days.” U.N. agencies had been gathering supplies and Saad said they needed 24-48 hours to get aid moving once they got the green light. Ethiopian government spokesperson Legesse Tulu and Getachew Reda, a spokesman for the Tigray authorities, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. In an Oct. 24 statement, the federal government communication service said it was coordinating with humanitarian agencies “to continue providing humanitarian aid” in urban areas where it had recently taken control.
Source: swissinfo.ch
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