The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a rebel group in Northern Ethiopia, remains in control of some parts of Ethiopia’s Afar region, Dina Mufti, spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, said on Friday. Mufti indicated that rebel forces’ presence has affected humanitarian aid to the Tigray region.’“TPLF forces had withdrawn from three towns in Afar region, but were still in three of the region’s districts,” said Mufti, rejecting reports that rebel forces have fully withdrawn from the Afar region. It is still in control of other districts of Afar and the Amhara regions,” Mufti said in a weekly briefing. Mufti said the Ethiopian government has declared an indefinite humanitarian truce since March 24 to allow unfettered access to humanitarian supplies to the people in the Tigray region. Mufti said 146 aid convoys including nine fuel tankers were supplied to the Tigray region since the declaration of the truce.

Source: Ethiopian News April 30, 2022 14:12 UTC