The head of the U.S. government’s humanitarian agency says aid workers would soon run out of food to deliver to millions of people going hungry in war torn Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
Head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID Samantha Power, in a statement noted that “USAID and its partners as well as other humanitarian organisations have depleted their stores of food items warehoused in Tigray.’’
War broke out in November between Ethiopian troops and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the region. The conflict has been marked by allegations of war crimes, killing thousands and sparked a humanitarian crisis in one of the world’s poorest regions.
The U.N. warned last month that more than 100,000 children in Tigray could die of hunger.
On Thursday, the U.N. Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, called for an immediate ceasefire and unrestricted aid access in Tigray.
Also, Spokespersons for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Billene Seyoum told a news conference that 277 trucks of aid had entered Tigray, without specifying the time the trucks entered.
