Faith Nyasuguta
The World Health Organization reports that no food or medicine has reached the Ethiopian region of Tigray despite the signing of a ceasefire last week.
According to the United Nations, Ethiopia is using starvation as a weapon of war in Tigray, where it says a humanitarian blockade put 90% of the population at risk.
“Nothing is moving,” said WHO boss Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“I was expecting food and medicine to start flowing immediately after the ceasefire. That’s not happening.”
He revealed that people were dying from starvation and treatable diseases.
Dr Tedros, who hails from Tigray, has now called for the restoration of telecom, banking and other basic services.
For two years, he noted, over six million people have been cut off from the rest of the world as if they do not exist.
According to a vocal Ethiopian official, Dr Tedros was trying to undermine the peace agreement – and that food and medicine were reaching Tigray.
He further asserted that the basic necessities of electricity and telecom services had been restored in some areas.
