Humanitarian aid will start reaching people who face hunger and disease in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray by the end of the week, according to the national security adviser to the prime minister of Ethiopia.
Millions of people in the region are in urgent need of food, medicine, and other basic supplies.
Redwan Hussien is quoted as saying by the US State Department that “aid would flow unhindered” as was agreed in the peace talks.
(1/2) @RedwanHussein said in Nairobi that by week’s end humanitarian aid would flow unhindered as agreed in Pretoria. Vulnerable Ethiopians in Tigray, Afar, and Amhara need aid now…
— Bureau of African Affairs (@AsstSecStateAF) November 10, 2022
The final round of talks between representatives of Tigray and the government in Addis Ababa are expected to end on Friday in Kenya.
Both parties have been meeting to discuss the implementation of the peace deal signed last week in South Africa.
Ethiopia’s government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front have committed to ending two years of fighting.
The deal calls for aid deliveries to restart in Tigray and for essential services to be restored. Millions of people there urgently need food and medicine.
Source: BBC