UN: 100,000 refugees in Ethiopia face food shortage crisis
The United Nations announced on Tuesday, December 1, that food supplies for about 100,000 refugees who have fled Eritrea to camps in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia have run out.
"Concerns are growing by the hour," Babar Baloch, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday.
"Currently, food supplies in the camps are running low, making hunger and malnutrition a major risk," he added.
The spokesman emphasized that since the beginning of the fighting about a month ago, they have repeatedly warned about the dire situation of refugees and asylum seekers in the region.
"We have also warned about unconfirmed reports of attacks, kidnappings and forced recruitment in refugee camps," he continued.
About two weeks ago, Mr. Baloch announced at a meeting in Geneva that tens of thousands of children, women, and men had been displaced.
For nearly a month, Tigray has been virtually cut off from the world due to the disruption of internet and telephone lines and difficulties in communicating information; since the recent conflict between the forces of the "Tigray People's Liberation Front" and the army of the Abiy Ahmed government began in this region, tens of thousands of people have been displaced and hundreds have been killed.
Tigray ethnic leaders have accused the Eritrean government of interfering in the region's conflicts and collaborating with Abiy Ahmed's government.
This is while Eritrean authorities have so far remained silent on these accusations, and the Ethiopian government has also completely rejected these claims.
Source: Radio Farda
