Horn of AfricaUN Supplies Food for 25,000 Refugees in Tigray RegionCompiled by Santo D. BanerjeeNEW YORK (IDN) – For the first time since mid-October, some 25,000 Eritrean refugees, sheltering in two camps in the unsettled Tigray region of Ethiopia, have received desperately needed food aid, reports UN News. Another nearly 240 metric tons of food were delivered to Adi Harush refugee camp to support 12,170 refugees there. The supplies were distributed by the UN World Food Programme (WFP), UNHCR, and Ethiopia’s Agency for Refugees and Returnee Affairs (ARRA). Some 96,000 Eritrean refugees registered in four camps in the Tigray region, are dependent on WFP food assistance for survival, reports UN News. [IDN-InDepthNews – 31 December 2020]Photo: The Tigray region faces some of the toughest development challenges in Ethiopia.

Source: Ethiopian News December 31, 2020 20:48 UTC