The United Nations warned Thursday that some U.N. agencies and aid groups will be forced to halt operations in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region if humanitarian supplies, fuel and cash are not delivered very soon.
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As of Jan. 3, he said, the U.N.’s partners who have been distributing food and other aid in Tigray have only around 10.000 liters of fuel left. “At least 60,000 liters of fuel are needed to dispatch the limited food supplies that are available in Mekele,” Tigray’s capital, he said. Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the Tigray conflict that erupted in November 2020 between Ethiopian forces and fighters from Tigray, who dominated the national government before Abiy Ahmed became prime minister in 2018.
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