Geneva - Sana
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees warned today that about 100,000 Eritrean refugees in the Tigray region of Ethiopia will face severe food shortages next week if the parties to the conflict there do not allow humanitarian aid to reach them.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced about 3 weeks ago a military operation against the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigrayans after he said that it had attacked an army camp and tried to steal its equipment, killing a number of soldiers.
"More than 96,000 Eritrean refugees live in four camps in Tigray, and they will run out of food as of next Monday," Reuters quoted UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch as saying in a press briefing in Geneva, adding that these estimates are based on the latest aid distribution that took place a few days ago. Weeks.
Baloch indicated that "what is required is the unimpeded access of humanitarian aid to them as soon as possible."
It was reported that recent clashes took place near some of these refugees.
In the same context, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission indicated that about 600 civilians were killed earlier this month in the town of Mai Kadra, southwest of Tigray, explaining that “a group of armed men targeted the townspeople from the Amhara and Wolkit groups, describing the attack as a“ massacre on the basis of ethnicity ”.
Last Tuesday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, expressed her concern about "further violations of international humanitarian law" in Tigray.
