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The emergency transports to the region of Tigray “do not match the needs”, according to the UN’s food agency the World Food Program (WFP).
The availability of emergency transport has improved significantly since the government of Ethiopia and the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) agreed earlier in November to allow humanitarian aid to all those in need in Tigray.
In a statement, WFP writes that all major cities are reached by the aid. However, the body and its partners urgently need access to all parts of the region. According to the WFP, the difficulties should mainly concern the eastern and central parts of Tigray.
The cease-fire agreement was signed on November 2 between the government in Addis Ababa and the TPLF after two years of conflict. The region was isolated from the outside world for over a year and suffered major shortages of, among other things, medicine, electricity and transport.