A leading humanitarian aid official has criticised the Ethiopian authorities for restricting access to victims of the conflict in the northern Tigray region.
Jan Egeland, now head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said aid agencies hadn’t been able to reach central and western parts of the region, as well as two refugee camps.
No more whitewashing: Aid is still NOT reaching civilians in desperate need in Ethiopia’s Tigray.
Hunger and malnutrition reach them faster.
In 40 years a humanitarian, I’ve rarely seen an aid response so impeded. We are failing as an int’l community. https://t.co/JOxwLdJTx0
— Jan Egeland (@NRC_Egeland) February 1, 2021
He said he’d rarely seen an aid response impeded so much.
Mr Egeland added that the international community was failing in its duty to reach millions of desperate people.
There’s mounting evidence that all sides in the conflict have been committing human rights abuses against civilians.
Source: bbc.com
