"That peace process has not yet resulted in the kinds of full access, unfettered access and in the massive scale of medical and health assistance that the people of Tigray need," WHO's emergencies director Mike Ryan said.
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Civilians who need medical attention are dying in #Tigray because they cannot access medicines, warns @DrTedros.
"We urge the Eritrean and Ethiopian forces to end the war...and I urge the international community to pay attention and resolve this problem."
There is no other situation 🌍 in which 6 million people have been kept under siege for almost 2 years like in #Tigray, Ethiopia. This is a health crisis. I urge the intl. community to give this crisis the attention it deserves. There is a narrow window now to prevent genocide.
TW: sexual violence.
8 Days to November 1st. #EndRapeInWar an estimated 100,000+ Tigrayan women and girls have been subjected to conflict related sexual violence, & many more in Shire area in recent days. #2YrsTigrayGenocide@UKUN_NewYork
The winner of the Written News category is ‘A Tigrayan womb should never give birth’: Rape in Tigray from @AJEnglish
-Powerful and moving work by @berhe_lucy
Congratulations to all concerned - @Teo_Kermeliotis, @jcvanmeek
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At least 1,900 children under 5 have died from malnutrition in Ethiopia’s Tigray region in the past year, says a study conducted by regional health officials.
The true number of child deaths is likely higher, a doctor involved in the study said. https://t.co/M9mSzhRGfD
@DrTedros@UNCERF@eu_echo@KSRelief_EN "Since the truce, there should have been at least 2,000 trucks going into #Tigray. But there has been only 20 trucks in total – representing one percent of the need. In effect the siege by the Ethiopian and Eritrean forces continues"-@DrTedros
#Tigray is on the edge of a major humanitarian disaster unless the siege is ended. The region has been sealed off by #Eritrean & #Ethiopian forces for more than a year. No food, no medicine, no fuel, no cash, no media, no telecom. Starvation must never be used as a weapon of war.
Update: Thank you to everyone for your donations to our Christmas campaign for #Tigray. We are donating 100% to the ALENA project for women and girls in Sudan who are survivors of sexual violence.
100s are dying daily & millions risk death in a short time if the blockade of food + meds + fuel by 🇪🇹+🇪🇷 + allies into #Tigray continues. In #Irob district of Tigray, 45 people already died at the hospital & many more at home for lack med + food. @USAmbUN
The WHO says "nowhere on Earth" has a bigger humanitarian crisis than Ethiopia's Tigray region, where over 80% of people face food shortages.
Researchers say up to 500,000 have died from violence or famine since the military — accused of blocking aid — began an assault in 2020.
🔴 Six million people “sealed off from the outside world” for 500 days in Tigray are facing an unparalleled health crisis, the head of the World Health Organization has warned https://t.co/hg82buBgyJ
Last summer three aid workers set out to collect the wounded from a battlefield in northern Ethiopia. A day later they were found dead. Here's the story of what happened to them.
With dogged reporting by @MarksSimon
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