According to the Foreign Ministry, the nation received around 1,480 million birr (approximately 298 million dollars) in food products and about 128 million (2,575,000 dollars) destined for medical care.
That contribution, in the case of medicines and pharmaceuticals, should have increased what the Ministry of Health deposited in centers in Mekelle, the state capital, and Shire, when the government declared a humanitarian ceasefire, the communication indicates.
As of last July, he specifies, “658 metric tons of medicines and other supplies for the health system were delivered in the region, in 18 trucks, through seven organizations.”
According to the notification, Tigray also received ready-to-use therapeutic food for the treatment of malnourished children, pregnant and lactating mothers, as well as various high-quality dietary supplements.
Likewise, the Ministry denounces that the government faces obstacles to guarantee access to collaboration, such as the aggression of the Tigray Popular Liberation Front (TPLF), which prevented the passage through the city of Abala, in Afar, last December.
Since November 2020, Tigray has been experiencing the war of the federal army against the TPLF, an organization declared a terrorist by Parliament and accused of violating human rights, among various crimes.
After several turning points, last June the authorities decreed an armistice, but the organization rejected it and extended its criminality to Afar and Amhara.
Government forces recently liberated the occupied areas of those states, where according to state reports it caused the displacement of 1.8 million people and plunged 8.3 million into food insecurity.
Ethiopia claims for Afar and Amhara the same collaboration that many countries and international organizations seek for Tigray, the seat of the TPLF, the main force of the former Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, a ruling coalition for almost three decades and dissolved in 2019.
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