More than 300 aid trucks arrived in Tigray from May 10-16, the highest number to reach the impoverished and war-torn region of northern Ethiopia in almost a year, the United Nations said Friday. Hundreds of thousands have been driven to the brink of famine, more than two million people been displaced and more than nine million left in need of food aid, the UN says. “319 trucks of humanitarian cargo entered Tigray during the reporting week, the highest number of trucks entering the region in a single week since June 2021,” the UN humanitarian agency OCHA reported. From April to mid-May some 15,500 tons of food have entered Tigray through the neighboring Afar region, the statement said. In March, the government declared “an indefinite humanitarian truce effective immediately,” which allowed several convoys of humanitarian aid to reach the region for the first time since mid-December.

Source: Ethiopian News May 21, 2022 06:16 UTC