By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated PressUNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations warned Thursday that some U.N. agencies and aid groups will be forced to halt operations in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region if humanitarian supplies, fuel and cash are not delivered very soon. As of Jan. 3, he said, the U.N.’s partners who have been distributing food and other aid in Tigray have only around 10.000 liters of fuel left. “At least 60,000 liters of fuel are needed to dispatch the limited food supplies that are available in Mekele,” Tigray’s capital, he said. As a result of a months-long government blockade, some of Tigray’s 6 million people have begun starving to death, according to aid groups. The United Nations urged all parties “to allow unimpeded and sustained access to people in Tigray, Amhara and Afar,” Dujarric said.

Source: Ethiopian News January 07, 2022 00:12 UTC