People stand in line to receive food donations, at the Tsehaye primary school, which was turned into a temporary shelter for people displaced by conflict, in the town of Shire, Tigray region, Ethiopia, 15 March 2021.People stand in line to receive food donations, at the Tsehaye primary school, which was turned into a temporary shelter for people displaced by conflict, in the town of Shire, Tigray region, Ethiopia, 15 March 2021.
More than 90% of the 5.5 million people in the northern province of Tigray need food aid, according to the United Nations. Around 100 trucks of aid per day need to enter to meet the population’s needs. Mekelle, “soon” the agency said, adding that another convoy with more than 1,000 metric tonnes of food would be sent to the neighbouring region of northern Afar on Friday afternoon to deliver “to communities in dire need”. Erepti is one of six districts in Afar currently controlled by Tigrayan forces.
The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a report on Thursday that food stocks in Tigray were “minimal” and as a result humanitarian workers had cut back or even halted their operations. War broke out in the Tigray region in November 2020.