Access constraints due to the ongoing insecurity continue to challenge the urgent scale-up of humanitarian assistance and prevent the population from accessing life-saving support. Even if that is the situation in Tigray, the government still denies and do not allow all humanitarian activities desperately needed....
The most obvious way in which armed conflict causes hunger is deliberate use of food as a weapon. Adversaries starve opponents into submission by seizing or destroying food stocks, livestock, or other assets in rural areas and by cutting off sources of food or livelihood,...
The United Nations has raised concerns over potential "massive community transmission" of the coronavirus in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, amid displacements, conflict and a damaged health care system. In its first on-the-ground assessment from Tigray, published late Thursday, the UN described the dire humanitarian situation...