Aid convoy enters Tigray-controlled Ethiopia for the first time in 3 months – WFP.
The United Nations World Food Program said on Twitter that it had brought aid trucks into Ethiopian territory controlled by Tigraan forces for the first time since December 15.
The UN says more than 90% of the 5.5 million Tigrayans need food aid.
The war in Africa’s second most populous nation has left thousands dead and, according to the United Nations, displaced hundreds of thousands. the brink of famine since it started on November 2020.
During the 16-month civil war, Ethiopian troops and allied soldiers from neighboring Eritrea perpetrated a variety of abuses including torture, armed rape, and targeted murder of the Tigray.
Fighters loyal to the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) also accused of killing civilians and the gang rape of dozens of women and underage girls in towns in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, by Amnesty International.
