Ethiopia's allies in the Tigray war have unleashed a campaign of looting, rape and expulsions, residents and humanitarian workers in the northern region say, despite a peace deal to halt the fighting. "Shire is almost a ghost town," he told AFP in mid-December, adding that civilians were suffering dire shortages of food, fuel and cash. "There is no budget, the medications we get are from donations which are barely enough for one to two days," he told AFP this week. Conditions in the rest of Tigray were no better, said a third aid worker who travelled from Shire to Adwa in early December. Across northern Tigray, "there is a very serious lack of medicine, hygiene and sanitation," he told AFP.

Source: Ethiopian News December 23, 2022 07:50 UTC