“We call for an end to the blockade around Tigray and for more media attention to be paid to the terrible humanitarian crisis. “Even the World Health Organization has said that nowhere on Earth are people more endangered than Tigray,” said Azeb Gebrehiwot, one of the protest organizers. A convoy of food aid trucks entered the Tigray area on Friday, the first humanitarian convoy to do so since December 14.
AMAZING NEWS 🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛 WFP convoys to #Tigray are back on the road and making steady progress! I just arrived in Erepti and will soon be crossing the Tigray, bringing over 500 mt of urgently needed food and nutrition supplies from the WFP / Partner to communities on the brink of starvation. pic.twitter.com/UGGgvG3n0d – WFP_Ethiopia (@WFP_Ethiopia) April 1, 2022 The Ethiopian federal government recently declared an immediate humanitarian truce in the war that has been going on for more than a year. The cessation of hostilities was deemed necessary for the necessary supplies to reach the area. The United Nations estimates that 90 percent of Tigray’s six million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. The trucks that arrived on Friday were carrying more than 500 metric tons of supplies. –With files from the Associated Press.
