TIGRAY ‘BLOCKADE’ KILLING PEOPLE, WHO CHIEF SAYS

Fri 12 November 2021:

Ethiopia’s conflict-torn Tigray region is under “effective blockade”, the World Health Organization chief said Friday, warning that people were starving to death and dying from lack of access to medicines.

“People are dying because of lack of supplies,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, himself a Tigrayan, told reporters, warning that WHO “cannot send supplies and medicines to Tigray because it’s under blockade, and the blockade is systematic”.

Ethiopia announced a state of emergency last week after TPLF rebels made military gains against government forces, approaching the capital by 200 kilometres.

The TPLF has formed the United Front of Ethiopian Federalist Forces with at least eight other factions, including the Oromo Liberation Army, in an attempt to depose Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

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